The really "Old School" boating thread

[Wheeler]

Can't believe Wheeler left out Buzz Coats' Mortician, now owned by now owned Spike Morelli.


The color shots of the D&H Woodpecker and Mixed Emotions boats are like 2nd or 3rd generations of those boats. D&H were some of the early wood builders too.
I'll have to dig up the pic I have of the first Woodpecker running a Hot Boat race at Long Beach. Can't imagine try trying to corner one of those with that bottom.


I laughed when I saw this pic of the earlier Woodpecker. I worked for Joe Panek's Rotofaze Ignitions for a few months when in high school. It was in Inglewood then. Now his shop is in Torrance, and I see him every so often. Cool old man.

I'm not sure how I missed the "Mortician" as it's one of my favorite boats of all time.





These pix of the "Woodpecker" were taken at Birch and Broadway in Hawthorne, next to Dunaway and Douglas Mortuary, '63 or there about.







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