"Blast from the Past" Lake Ming

[spike morelli]

Well, I'm not exactly sure what's going on at Lake Ming this coming weekend July 22-23. I'm told it has to do with some powerboat nostalgia, and well, I'm interested. I haven't heard whether it's strictly a show of sorts or a drag race or what. I would have loved to display, being that I have two N.D.B.A. drag boats from the sixties, but I'm planning on going ( without boats ), to see what's going on. I only was told about this this last week...talk about being out of the loop! Anyway, I'm going Saturday the 23rd, with a friend and driver/owner of a Blown Gas Hydro from that era.....there aren't too many of these boats still around. Anyone out there have an idea what the event is all about?

[HB Vic]

No, but I'm looking for something to do this weekend [emoji41]


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[2manymustangs]

I was only able to find this Spike... At the bottom it says "if you have any questions contact John @ 686-7041...


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[spike morelli]

Thanks TooManyMustangs. I looked up the Lake Ming Events roster the other day, found the same as you. After also looking up the area code ( Hey Lake Ming, wake up, include the area code), I did leave a message for said John. No return call as of yet. This may turn out to be a cool event, I'll take a camera, maybe post some highlights as I can.

[spike morelli]

O.K., I got it together now...Googled "Fire On The Mountain Productions" and bingo.....here's the poster explaining the event. I'm going sans boats, it looks interesting.63556

[spike morelli]

63709637106371163712 I returned from the "Blast From the past" event today at Lake Ming. For an event's first time, and having little or no coverage from the internet boat sites, ...by all measure, the crowd turnout was much larger than expected, smoothly run, and a big hit. It was HOT out in Bakersfield, but everyone was enjoying themselves. In attendance were static boat displays, in- water passes, hot rods, bikes, food, music, vendors.....but let me appologise up front, I only took some photos of boats. To start off here......I grabbed some shots of boats leaving the launch area and making flyby passes.

[spike morelli]

Here's some photos of SOME of the boats in attendance, as I didn't get a shot of some other really nice boats there. Being an "engine guy", I seem to take a lot of photos of the powerplants.637136371463715

[HB Vic]

Spike thank you so much for posting. Really wanted to get up there but just could not make it today. Looks like some Hotboats there for sure [emoji1360]


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[spike morelli]

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[spike morelli]

637266372763728 I took a lot more photos than what's here........for whatever reason, my computer denies attaching half of the photos because it says the "file is to large"....AAAARRGG!

[spike morelli]

In addition, I must say, the cheeseburger that I had at the event was SUPERB! Seriously, pretty darned good for event food. Ice cold sodas and water bottles were only a buck, several beer vendors too. Loporchio's T-Shirts had all of their popular designs on display and for sale. There was rock 'n roll music playing over the P.A. system. I wish more of my photos would download. Again, this was NOT a drag race . Kudos to the city of Bakersfield for allowing people to get their boats wet. My boats stayed home this time, but NEXT time...........

[2manymustangs]

THanks so much Spike!!! Nice stuff...

I soooooooooo wanted to make the trip up there and spend some time with you sir... I just have so much on my plate getting things packed up here for the moving van...

Ironically I heard a funny story yesterday that you might appreciate, our real estate agent (lives in spinaker bay/next to marine stadium) said he has photos from his youth of the drag races at THE BEACH/marine stadium that I wanna get copies of... He went on to say "and i worked for the mortician" which made me chuckle, think of you... Apparently he ACTUALLY DID literally work for the local mortician near marine stadium, it made me think of you and your boat... :D It was funny hearing him say that in the context of marine stadium and old history of drag boat racing...


LONG LIVE SoCal BOAT RACING, where it all started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :action-smiley-035:

[westair]

Cool pics! .....thanks!

[spike morelli]

For me, had I sent my Hilborn Injection fuel pump in sooner for servicing, and had more lead time in advance, I could have taken Too Much ( my restored blown gas hydro, not running right now due to pump servicing ), and put it in the water. It would have been perfect....no pressure, plenty of people to help at the ramp, NO SALT WATER, major historical location, and an appreciative group of enthusiasts and old friends. This was a missed opportunity. Oh, and like the poster said, admission was FREE! On the way to Lake Ming, we drove through Hart Park, where so-cal boat drag racing first started. If those places could talk.

[2manymustangs]

For me, had I sent my Hilborn Injection fuel pump in sooner for servicing, and had more lead time in advance, I could have taken Too Much ( my restored blown gas hydro, not running right now due to pump servicing ), and put it in the water. It would have been perfect....no pressure, plenty of people to help at the ramp, NO SALT WATER, major historical location, and an appreciative group of enthusiasts and old friends. This was a missed opportunity. Oh, and like the poster said, admission was FREE! On the way to Lake Ming, we drove through Hart Park, where so-cal boat drag racing first started. If those places could talk.

If you want to make a commitment for next years event, count me in and I will put it on the 2017 calendar Spike... We're not getting any younger, at least IM not... I could combine the trip to Bakersfield and Long Beach Circle Sprints assuming the dates for those two events stay the same...

[Cdwlineman96]

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Only pics on the net of this event so far thanks finally get to see a pic of my boat I didn't take

[spike morelli]

You're quite welcome Lineman. As I said, I took lots more photos of the boats at this event than got posted. For some reason, some got posted while others were considered "too large' by my computer. All the boats there were worth photographing. There were various different boats there from more family-ish ski boats, to dedicated drag boats.....and I get it.....everyone there is just as proud of their respective toy as the guy next to them. It's the way it should be. I'd even go as far as to say you don't need to give out Trophys because that tends to make these get-togethers a competition. Once you make an event a competition, some very worthy boats stay home because the owners can't "out money" some of the "showboats" and trailer queens. Anyway, it's just my opinion.
You're right about there being no internet coverage besides this , and we haven't even touched on the nice hot rods and custom bikes that were in attendance.

[2manymustangs]

Only pics on the net of this event so far thanks finally get to see a pic of my boat I didn't take

Welcome to HOTBOAT lineman :) you have a nice piece of history there... :action-smiley-035:


You're quite welcome Lineman. As I said, I took lots more photos of the boats at this event than got posted. For some reason, some got posted while others were considered "too large' by my computer. All the boats there were worth photographing. There were various different boats there from more family-ish ski boats, to dedicated drag boats.....and I get it.....everyone there is just as proud of their respective toy as the guy next to them. It's the way it should be. I'd even go as far as to say you don't need to give out Trophys because that tends to make these get-togethers a competition. Once you make an event a competition, some very worthy boats stay home because the owners can't "out money" some of the "showboats" and trailer queens. Anyway, it's just my opinion.
You're right about there being no internet coverage besides this , and we haven't even touched on the nice hot rods and custom bikes that were in attendance.

Well post em up Chief... ;) kidding... We're waiting patiently...

I have noticed recently that the MAX file size we can upload has changed recently, which is no biggie for me... Maybe your upload denials are due to some recent change in MAX file/format size... I used to be able to upload close to 1mb jpegs, now I think the max is closer to .5mb :)

[HB Vic]

It has changed. When we were having issues Admin cranked it down, however, since that happened I found out the issue was actually with GoDaddy and not our software. We ran with big files forever, I think we can safely turn it back up now.


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[2manymustangs]

It has changed. When we were having issues Admin cranked it down, however, since that happened I found out the issue was actually with GoDaddy and not our software. We ran with big files forever, I think we can safely turn it back up now.


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im indifferent :) 1/2 meg is still pretty a pretty large picture :)

[spike morelli]

Well post em up Chief...

I would ......however I only took photos of the boats, not that the bikes and rods weren't nice, they were, but I figured this was a boat site, and I wasn't going to go off topic. I guess I could have kept snappin'. Next time...

[2manymustangs]

;) off topic is how I roll... float... ;)