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Thread: Mandella boat called Rawhide

  1. #1
    hustlertunnel1
    Does anyone know info or the where abouts of
    a single seat Mandella called Rawhide that
    was in an Elvis movie called Clambake? It had a 427 w/2x4 and made by Lou Brummett in
    the mid 60's. It has a white deck and sort of rootbeer or tangerine sides and bottom.
    Elvis raced it in the movie. Please reply.
    Jim

  2. #2
    PE857
    Graceland, maybe?
    Sorry.

  3. #3
    boatguy222
    It should be in the flatbottom Hall of Fame.

  4. #4
    hustlertunnel1
    Originally posted by boatguy222:
    It should be in the flatbottom Hall of Fame.
    Any idea where that's located? Thanks

  5. #5
    DaveA
    Try this guy:
    Jim's Custom Windows (can't remember his last name)
    Albemarle NC
    704-982-8304
    He's got a Mandella he says was rigged by Lou Brummett hisself, named AquaHolic, has a 427 and is white/red. I've seen the boat, it's magnificent, and has been in the water about 3 times in the last 10 years. Just sits in his warehouse now, but he's such a Ford nut and an FE/sideoiler fan he's probably reluctant to sell. He claims (if I remember correctly) that this was one of 3 boats built for CLAMBAKE starring Elvis. I met him as a result of a referral from an old NC based flattie owner/racer named Donald Pierce in the same town, whose old Raysoncraft LP18 I now own. Jim will know who he is.
    See what happens and post the results. I'd love to know.
    DaveA
    Lake Norman NC

  6. #6
    21'Concord
    Lou Brummet raced that mandella all through the 60s and early 70s. In the nine hour enduro in Parker He was the manufacturer of the mandella hull. I don't know if there was just one hull, or a number of them with the same paint and number, but they all looked alike in those years. My father knew Lou Brummett and he also raced a Racen Craft flattie in the enduro in the late 60s. Rawhide was fast and if my memory serves me he won with the boat. or at least his class. I was only around six years old but I loved the races and tried to learn all I could about them. My family has a number of 8mm home movies of the enduro in those years and rawhide is in those films. I remember seeing the boat on the Elvis movie too when I was a kid. I bragged to my friends that I knew all about it and they wouldn't believe me until I showed them our home movies.

  7. #7
    Stab-n-Steer
    Not to be morbid here but how and when did Lou die? I know he was killed in a boat but I don't remember when and where?
    S&S

  8. #8
    LeE ss13
    He crashed the boat at a race called the Elsinor 500 in 1972. He was running second and closing on first place guy when he stuffed it. (nose first in the water). He was pulled from the right in front of my mother and father. (she is not real big about me racing). I had heard that the boat broke in half and that it was brought back to the shop in Pasadena and repaired. Location unknown. You have got me curious now, I think I will try and find Carson Brummet, his son, see how the family is.
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    LeE ss13

  9. #9
    hottrodder
    We were at Carson's shop just yesterday for the parade. The parade passes his front parking lot. I believe that Rawhide is the former Miss Mandella. The footage in Clambake is from the '68 Orange Bowl Regatta which Lou did really win. Today Carson's new engine and dyno room has a bunch of his Dad's old trophys atop the cabinets. He still has the 18' bottom but only the short deck top. The long deck and center single seat molds were crushed at a land fill long ago. There is a wooden 'box' in the front shop sitting on the ground that is about 20'x8'x3'. There's alot of parts patterns even trailer axles sitting on top of it. Rumor has it that Rawhide rests there.

  10. #10
    Stab-n-Steer
    Hottrodder,
    It great to see you post again, hopefully the holidays treated you well... I assume the tapes arrived in one piece? Thanks again for your generosity and trouble.
    Best,
    S&S

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