Another Vintage Video - Umbarger "Almost" and Parker Enduro from Mid 70s.

[Sam Baker]

Here is another old movie. This one starts out with Jim Umbarger ALMOST blowing over his twin Chrysler powered Hustler boat at a race in Fox Lake, IL. The rest of the video is footage from the golden era of Factory backed tunnel racing. It's the Parker Enduro from around 1976 or so. Jimbo McConnell, Johnny Sanders, Geoff Briggs, Bob Hering...all the big names. OMC -VS- Mercury and throw in some of those awesome car motor powered ET tunnely hulls. This is my favorite race of all time. All the boats would take off and you'd place bets on who would be the first to come back around after circling the 13 mile course. Then they run that for NINE hours...

I'm still trying to figure out what's the best settings...this footage should be a little better. I'll try to redo it at some point to a higher definition setting, but you get the point. I also replaced the cheesy music with something a little better.

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[Mark75H]

Thanks, I like it

[Ron Hill]

Thanks, Sam. Did I see Geoff Briggs, Bill Muncey, Ziggy, Johnny Sanders, Kenny.....in the pits?

The reason I'm saying 1976 was because Fred Hauenstein and I finshed third that year with my V-4 and first in the 100 Inch class. Two v-6 Mercury powered Molinari's ran 1-2. The OMC V-6 broke that year.


I decided after that race that the V-4's were done at Parker. I figured they could never beat the V-6's again. I sold my boat to a friend of Burt Hines in Australia. I didn't race the Enduro in 1977. I had raced in everyone since 1976. Burt Hines led the first lap in 1977 with a Scotti that was Mike Wallace's and a Johnson V-6, My dad and Burt rigged that new Scotti in my dad's driveway.

In 1978 Freddy and I won overall with Brad Miller's Molinari, Evinrude buitl by Fred Hauenstein.

[brichter]

The #3 "Stars and Stripes" themed mod 50 (Tim Briggs') boat in the film is the Burgess my dad ran for 8or 9 years with V4s after he bought it from Bob Nagode. I didn't know it was a Parker boat but that makes sense because it was way overbuilt for a '50 boat.

It got real tired after being patched up for 7 or 8 years and was completely shot when it went on the burn pile.