Uploaded February 2008 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
youtube.com/watch?v=uk72Pvi1e2g&fmt=18 - Click on Link to watch in High Quality! 2008 Rubonia Mardi Gras - The La Bomba Race Car Float participating in the 2008 Rubonia Mardi Gras. A couple of weeks after the Rubonia (near St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL) Mardi Gras, we removed the current '07' body of the float and changed it to a Gulf Porsche Racing scheme that we then drove to the 12 Hours of Sebring. The Gulf Porsche version can be seen in another one of my videos. The LaBomba float was built back in 1997 by a group of enthusiasts, led by Professor Ralph Doty, and has been street legal and street worthy for the past eleven years. She has made an annual appearance at every Rubonia Mardi Gras and 12 Hours of Sebring since her inception. She is powered by a 253 six cylinder Chevrolet engine and a basic three speed automatic transmission. Over the years we have upgraded her to power steering, dually rear wheels, and the switch to the automatic from the original manual tranny. There are three parade seating compartments in the nose area in front of the driver. The back seating area features side benches that face each other. Seating capacity is about 35 total. For the curious, see even more information at labombaracing.com Thanks for looking! (FYI: The race car number is always the current year)
youtube.com/watch?v=uk72Pvi1e2g&fmt=18 - Click on Link to watch in High Quality! 2008 Rubonia Mardi Gras - The La Bomba Race Car Float participating in the 2008 Rubonia Mardi Gras. A couple of weeks after the Rubonia (near St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL) Mardi Gras, we removed the current '07' body of the float and changed it to a Gulf Porsche Racing scheme that we then drove to the 12 Hours of Sebring. The Gulf Porsche version can be seen in another one of my videos. The LaBomba float was built back in 1997 by a group of enthusiasts, led by Professor Ralph Doty, and has been street legal and street worthy for the past eleven years. She has made an annual appearance at every Rubonia Mardi Gras and 12 Hours of Sebring since her inception. She is powered by a 253 six cylinder Chevrolet engine and a basic three speed automatic transmission. Over the years we have upgraded her to power steering, dually rear wheels, and the switch to the automatic from the original manual tranny. There are three parade seating compartments in the nose area in front of the driver. The back seating area features side benches that face each other. Seating capacity is about 35 total. For the curious, see even more information at labombaracing.com Thanks for looking! (FYI: The race car number is always the current year)
![Good Time Feeling - Shake It Loose, Spread The News [Premiere Music Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vPHt5C32CRI/mqdefault.jpg "Good Time Feeling - Shake It Loose, Spread The News [Premiere Music Video]
A Song with flavors of Mardi Gras, Country Gospel & Blues. Revisiting a wonderful song from the past. Dickey Betts wrote this song Good Time Feeling and recorded & released it in 1978. The song immediately became a favorite of mine. For many years our band opened every show we played with this song. It seemed to be a great tune for the band to get in the groove on (Greasing The Tracks), and to set a good vibe for the evenings show. Songs tend to evolve over time, and this version is the result of years of tweaking and trying different things. When I started thinking about recording a new version of this song, I had in mind giving it a Southern Gospel feel. Good Time Feeling seemed to fall into that Gospel feel quite easily. The horn section adds to that Gospel/Mardi Gras feel that we were going for.
Many thanks to all the talented musicians who participated in the making of this recording. A special thanks to Jeff Doc Thal, who not only played the drums and percussion on this recording, but also did executed all of the engineering/mixing of the numerous tracks that were recorded.
This recording is dedicated to the memory of two of our recently departed friends, John Henry & Wayne Jones. John Henry was a very talented drummer and vocalist with whom I played thousands of gigs with, in our band The Hurricanes over an almost 20 year period. John and I truly became like brothers, having spent so much time together making our music. John left us on February 21st 2020 at the age of 66.
Wayne Jones was a long-time friend, both as an enthusiastic supporter of our live music, but also as one of our Band of Brothers from our Camping Tribe at the ever-popular 12 Hours of Sebring Race in Sebring, FL. Wayne was co-founder of the Sarasota Racing & Drinking Enthusiasts association (SRDE) and had camped trackside at the the Sebring Track for 50 years, enjoying European Style SportsCar Racing and the fine art of round-the-clock revelry. Wayne had recently been honored in the official 2020 Sebring Raceway Program as the Fan Of The Year recipient. Wayne was thrilled to receive this very notable award, as were all of us in the LaBomba/SRDE camps. Wayne lost a lengthy battle with a respiratory disease on May 07th 2021 at the age of 63.")
