Twin 45 Crapshooter by Don Bilsky

[timothy johnson]

Sold to Steve pending pmt.

 

[KenOlvis]

nice twin up date the radio widen the track a little let the props eat some water an fast track the coarse old girl will do good

 

[timothy johnson]

Has anyone heard from Steve Ballinger, he sent me a shipping address for the boat and I have not heard back from him. Thanks Tim

 

[Steve White]

Many moons ago, I read a magazine article about a twin named the "Predator" which seemed to be a Pinkert design - I believe the article was authored by Don Bilsky. Cuz, that was the inspiration for my first twin with a pair of OPS 60's which were later changed out for a pair of OPS 80's - a Thundergator.

 

[timothy johnson]

Steve Don's boats were Crapshooters.

 

[Jody Malone]

In the mid 80’s Bilsky did an article in rc boating and titled it “and you thought your boat was fast “ , it was a don pinckert coyote with twin big block black head OPS 90’s complete with Pinckerts 3rd channel needles and one of the engines blew up during the test approaching 23’000 rpm’s which he said was arguably more than the engine could handle..

 

[Steve White]

I had a couple of Pinckert's adjustable needle valves. I'm not sure what hull the Predator was for sure - don't remember it being a Crapshooter, but may well have been. Coyote sounds familiar, been 35-40 years ago. Pretty sure it was Bilsky though in the article, may have been the twin OPS 90 boat article. Pretty sure it was called the Predator though.

Didn't mean to hijack the thread with this trivia.

 

[Steve Ballinger]

Has anyone heard from Steve Ballinger, he sent me a shipping address for the boat and I have not heard back from him. Thanks Tim

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[Paulmousseau]

I remember that twin in the article. It was a coyote twin 90. Painted dark blue. I thought he he used picco comp 90's in it though. That article is was made me want a twin so bad

 

[Jeff Lutz]

In the mid 80’s Bilsky did an article in rc boating and titled it “and you thought your boat was fast “ , it was a don pinckert coyote with twin big block black head OPS 90’s complete with Pinckerts 3rd channel needles and one of the engines blew up during the test approaching 23’000 rpm’s which he said was arguably more than the engine could handle..

Don Bilsky did many articles, crapshooters and Mongoose, but the Coyote Twin that was dark blue was Jim Augustine. And it was Picco 90 power.

 

[timothy johnson]

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[Steve Ballinger]

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[Steve White]

Don Bilsky did many articles, crapshooters and Mongoose, but the Coyote Twin that was dark blue was Jim Augustine. And it was Picco 90 power.

This is probably the one I remember in the magazine article. Thanks for the reference Jeff.

 

[timothy johnson]

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[timothy johnson]

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[timothy johnson]

Boat sold to Steve.

 

[johnsteltzer]

Where is my commission