Limited inboard hydros

[Tomtall]

Came across this web site. Well put together and some great photos.Also has some vintage limited hydo shots. http://pinkpantherhydro.freehomepage.com/index.html
Photo curtesy - Pink Panther web site

[Master Oil Racing Team]

Here are a couple of photos Tim sent me years ago from a kilo event somewhere around New York. I have to get Tim to retell the story about the Canadians stripping down Ray Hardy's new Cadillac before I post the pics or the outboards that ran there.

[David Weaver]

How did those Palm trees end-up in New York? Maybe somewhere in Florida (Moorehaven perhaps?)?

[Master Oil Racing Team]

May be. I know Tim was there too. I just remember Tim telling me about a limited hydro flying down the straight in a narrow body of water and looking pretty impressive. That was someplace up North. Thinking back, it wasn't a kilo run. It was called something like Bob Wanamaker's Flying Quarter.

[F-12]

Those pics look like Moore Haven down here in FL. I remember being there when Hank Lauterbach blew his inboard over and got killed. That was the same year Lowell Shoemacher blew his 250 hydro over and got hurt. Perfect place for kilos but very touchy with the wind direction. Danny Kirts made a few passes at that time and looked REALLY fast in his 500 hydro. Don't know if I'm right about the location but that would explain the palm trees................

[Jeff Lytle]

It was called something like Bob Wanamaker's Flying Quarter.


WOW!! If you have pics of that, I've got to see them. The last year it was held, Howie Benns flew his 7 litre Div. 1 through the 1/4 mile @ 176.6 MPH. The hemi powered Lauterbach hull was named Sudden Seven.

[Master Oil Racing Team]

.....I think that is the one that sent goose bumps down Tim's arm and raised the hair on the back of his neck.

Morehaven is correct. I talked to Joe today. He went with Tim and Bill Boxell to Morehaven. I haven't been more than a mile north of the Red River in 26 years. I've been living in this heat for so long I didn't even notice the palm trees.;) :D . Tim sent these pictures to me some time in the mid 80's, and I always thought they came from the flying quarter. Anyway, when I post the outboard pics, I expect Joe to tell us the who's, what's and why's about them.

Jeff, where was the flying quarter held. I thought it was New York. Joe says Pennsylvania.

[Master Oil Racing Team]

Here's an outboard hull, rigged as an inboard. Joe...tell us about it.

[Jeff Lytle]

It was in New York Wayne........Exactly where? I cannot remember.

[RichardKCMo]

Here's an outboard hull, rigged as an inboard. Joe...tell us about it.
Wayne, a lot of Y designation hydros were kneeldown style hand throttle and all, them little crosleys would haul A*s.
RichardKCMo

[RichardKCMo]

Here's an outboard hull, rigged as an inboard. Joe...tell us about it.

Pretty big O.B.
RichardKCMo

[RichardKCMo]

? say what? fastest 150 i ever seen? does anyone know any Hist. on this?
Jay Root was cool till the chicken done 'em in , he and Bill were at Otay one night , and i thought that was the coolest , there were'nt 30 paying. Anyways , I ferget. Ya'll have fun, here,lol. That was in the days when hydros weren't flyrs they were race boats , with Rules, musta' been the water.

Did i really just say that?
RichardKCMo

[Master Oil Racing Team]

It does fly Richard. Photos not too focused to get a good ID, but I think this is the boat.

[David Weaver]

...I believe at an inboard race in Hampton, VA. If it is the same boat, it was not allowed to run that weekend, because it utilized a Mercury powerhead that had been laid side ways inside the boat with an inboard drive shaft attached. The driver was trying to race in 1 litre inboard.