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Steve
All right not so fast here dude (me). A favorite uncle (Jim) got me an after school job in my Jr. year of HS, 1971 at Fresno Boats in Fresno, CA where I grew up. This boat is a generic reproduction of what was first a Sanger 17' 10" flatbottom. Tweaked and copied many many times by many manufacturers and models built as well. Jack Davison of Sanger Boats had some master craftsman working at his shop back in the day. I believe the guy that was the main brain and craftsman behind the Sanger flatbottom was named Reuben.
Fresno Boats splashed a mold from one of them, with slight deck changes of course. They had several of them at the NDBA drags, one was #308 Blown Fuel "Son of Patch" owned and driven by Sam Kurtovich. HIs picture hangs in my shop. Also, was Sanger's own drag boat named "Joker's Wild" owned by Jack Davidson of Sanger and driven by Larry "The Shoe" Schwabenland.
Sam was the first official 200 MPH pass in a propeller driven boat in 1969 at Lake Ming in Bakersfield, CA. 392 Chrysler hemi powered Blown Fuel Sanger hydro named "Crisis". They put down the pass, and the sun went down before they could back it up and grab the record. The pass still stands in the books.
I'm building a recovery boat and instead of an air boat pan, or PVC wrapped in floatation foam have decided to do it in style as an homage to drag racers of the past. Below is Sam running at Oakland (I would have been there) and Schwabie gettin' seriously out of shape, not sure where that run took place. Sam's boat was a metalflake green gel coat called Cold Fire which is the color it will be painted.
Blown Fuel flatbottom class was outlawed ~25 years ago.
RIP Sam, gone but still loved and never forgotten.
Sam Kurtovich memories
One more note - Sam renamed "Son of Patch" which was named after the original Sanger Flatbottom "Patches". He renamed it to "Ass Bite" and also named a subsequent fuel hydro Ass Bite. He had a ~48" scale model of a Sanger hydro that he let me pull a mold off of. I had that mold and also built an original Dumas Ski Daddle and pulled a mold from that. A friend and I setup a small enterprise building models and painting them to match full size drag boats. We used to sell them to the racers for $150. We built a Sanger Hydro model and were painting it, had it primed and Sam showed up at the shop one afternoon and upon seeing it asked who it was for? I said "oh ass bite, I mean Gary Gericke" painted up to look like The Executioner., his blown gas Sanger hydro. Sam thought the term Ass Bite was really funny.
It'll be great to have a somewhat accurate scale model of the 17'10" flatbottom. When I get it I'll send pics to my uncle Jim - that's another later chapter in drag boat history.
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