I got this from Mouse daughter Kathy last night. Thank yo very much
This is from the BP 200 race in South Africa 1975.
Both Jimbo and me was invited to race there and you could not have any better technical support than Mouse.
Great times and if I remember right we spent a week, maybe 10 days at the fancy hotel in Johannesburg.
The picture shows me, Jimbo and Mouse.
R.I.P my friend.
More from South Africa 1975 here:https://svera.se/blogg/racing-historier/1975-2/
I got the two letters from Dieter Schulze in Austria from my old friend Bo Nilsson in Sweden.
Its the purchase order for a brand new SE class Schulze Hydro Cat built for a Johnson 60 HP.
The cost in Swedish krona was 7,904.00..around $875.00 US.
Yes, Bo tested the boat at Dieters place with his own engine.
Bo was extremely successful with this Schulze/Johnson during the 1972 season.
Well..1973 another Swede ordered a Clerici SE cat and that changed everything.
The third picture is Bo’s Schulze at the Stockholm boat show early 1974. You can see the Johnson poster when OMC won Paris 6 hours 1973 with the first V6.
Thanks for the letters Bo.
Mouse could do it all for OMC. He worked so hard always. I met in the spring of 1967. In the early days of OMC Racing we busted almost everything, several times. In 1967, the X-115’s came out. I was lucky enough to win the Chicago to Milwaukee to Chicago Marathon. Mouse was taking my motors aprt for inspection, as “JJ” was a stock class in those days and Mercury had never been beaten in the modern era. My girl friend of a bout a month, lived in Tucson and went to the U of A. Met her in Michigan and we really seemed to get along. I’m standing next to my boat, and she turn sto me and says, “I’d run off that with that guy if he wasn’t married.” I said, “What? That’s Mouse.” She said, “He has the prettiest blue eyes.” We dated til New Years, but 50 years later, I remember that day well!
Another Mouse story: We are in Belgium, 1970, getting ready for Paris. I was “Helping” Mouse work on our gearcases. Mouse says, “Ron we’ve been to Paris three years in a row but never gotten to Berlin. Why don’t NOT break your motor in Paris so we can go to Berlin?” I must have giving him a damn strang look as he said, “Oh hell Ron, I know you wouldn’t back off for anything.” As it turned out Jimbo and I won Berlin that year. Mouse, you will alwys be in my heart! I know you worked for money, but your love and devotion to all of us OMC racers was something really special. Good Speed my friend!
Roger Hulett and I just got off the phone. Roger’s dad, Ray Hulett, machined and assembled every OMC racing gearcase at Jones Engines. He reminded me how Mouse (There is a reason for that name.) would stand on the engine cowling to work on the engine. He’d take the cowling off, then stand on it, to work on the motor.
At a race Mouse always had a cool head, no matter what the problem he never lost it and was always able to find the trouble. He was one of the best engine guys I have known. At one time Mouse raced stock cars and was quite successful, I have a set of his cylinder heads on my Corvette. Mouse and Ziggy grew up together, seems they were always playing tricks on each other at work. Rest in peace my friend, you will be missed by your many friends.
Him and my father Richard McKinley, were really good friends. So sad to here this news. If I remember correctly he also used to race outlaw cars. I remember watching him race.
David Blanchard
awwww man very sad he was such a great guy . I have known Mouse for more years than I can remember . I remember riding small snowmobiles at his house when I was like 6 or 7 years old
Stacy McKinley
This looks like mouse in this picture is it Lars??
