My 1967 Belmont Flatbottom story

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Here is another later photo of Bud Johnson with Mr Runner 2

A couple photos of Smitty Weeks' son, Lynn Weeks, when he was racing the 269 Belmont
It cracks me up how Smitty wrote on the boat "Owner - Smitty Weeks" to keep Lynn in check
Lynn is a few years older than me and I was jealous as hell of him - he got to live next to the shop and race the boats
Later took over the business until health issues left him unable to continue
I used to follow him around and drive him nuts!
He became very good at making fiberglass slot racer bodies and he also learned how to rewind those electric motors somehow to hop them up
He was a known threat at the indoor track in a little shop behind the Triple J Market at Cedar and Ashlan in Fresno
Dad recently reminded me that Lynn bought an old funeral hurst from one of the funeral homes near the shop. He turned it into his TOW RIG for the race boat
What a sight at the races - I sure wish I had photos of that
Dad went with Lynn on one of his many runs down to Long Beach to pick up Holman-Moody race motors for the boats
He fixed the casket rails so he could mount 3 of the motors in a row back there
Dad said they sure got a lot of looks out on the road
What a crack up

And a couple examples of what it was like out back at the Belmont Boat shop where I spent a lot of time