We all heard out about Laredo up here and we turned a bit green!
The Laredo race was payed great attention here we being stock outboarders so what! We always payed great interest to Alky racing from the getgo in Texas with all their Konigs because we saw great NOA races here for so long that belonged to the Alky Deflector days that saw transition into the Anzani, Harrison, Flathead, Konig and Crescent Loop engines in turn and we were always interested in the evolution and Konigs at the time was that next evolution. That and the evolution to pickelfork hydros. When I heard about the International race at Loredo paid some $8500.00 to participants up here for NOA races we were into the $10,000 range before the 1970s ever came along and we got the racers to show for it too. It is too bad like all good things that these events could not keep going. Ironically we never seen our first pickelfork raceboats here until 1976 when Ron Smith brought his Giles pickelforks here from Edmonton, AB and wiped us all out in class C and D Stock in one event both days! After that Giles hydros and Butts Aerowings started to turn up here on trailers by late 1976.
Keep up with these great histories your doing. :)