Bob Martin Marathon story
That is one of the funnest stories, This is how I know it. My Dad was running AU in the Needles Marathon. My Dad somehow crossed the finish line without nobody seeing him or my dad seeing the finish. He finely ran out of gas. Everyone looked for him down stream after all no one saw him cross the finish line. Some how he ended up past the finish line, pits, and everybody watching. But when this story is real side splitting funny is in the pits after a long day of racing. Around a fire after a few beers (not my dad he did not drink) but you add Russ Jr.& Ronnie Hill, Erine Dawe, Ted May and a few more there is comedy. My Dad always said he won.
My crash in 77 was in 25SSH that boat was fast but got a bad name because of that crash. That crash was just racing.
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Ted May Post Office Picture
Found this picture today...October 1968....Ted and I got our pass port pictures... Looks like one of those pictures you see in the post office....
Ted would have enjoyed The Blue Resort and Casino 300 Enduro last weekend...(October 20, 2007)... He was there in spirit....As when Fred Bowden took Al Stoker's MOD VP for a ride, Al said, "Fred can you touch the gas peddle?" Fred said, "No...." He had to borrow Pat Bowman's life jacket to put behind him...When Ted Co Drove with me, he always brought a pillow and sometimes a sandwich....Watching Ted get in my boat, I always knew he'd bring it back.....In all the years Ted and drove together, we finished every race we teamed!!!!
4th of July at Long Beach Marine Stadium, 1958
Seems Ted and Pat May were always doing things for people. They were both very loving, giving people. During the summer of 1958, I think it was '58, Pat got a summer exchange student from Japan. The student's name was Yoshi....
Where Pat got Yoshi I have no clue, but he was about 19, I'd say and he carried his camera everywhere. I'm sure he had little experience outside of Japan, and to end up in Long Beach living with the May Family was pure cultural shock I'm sure...
Ted took Yoshi everywhere, just like he did us kids...Horse races, motorcycle races, car races and when 4th of July came he took Yoshi to the Inboard races at Long Beach.
When the tide is high at Long Beach, there is water everywhere, but when the tide is out sometimes there ain't much "LAKE" left.... Anyway, Ernie Dawe, Bobby May, Herbie, Ted, Yoshi and I are getting ready to watch the start of the SK's...Seems there might have been more than 8, as I think they let 12 at a time run in those days...
We are all standing there with our hearts in our mouth as they lined up heading for the first turn, Ted looks around and there is Yoshi about knee deep in the water, camera in hand getting ready to take pictures....Ted was sure Yoshi was going get himself killed.
Ted starts yelling like a crazy man, he runs into the water and grabs Yoshi and drags him to the shore and they literally dive for the sand as about 8-9 SK's come by...several of the boats went exactly where Yoshi had been standing....
AS the summer ended, Yoshi went back to Japan, probably never telling anyone of his adventures in the USA, fearing no one would believe him...
This all happened the summer before Pat May started modeling gloves and hose. See Pat, Ted's wife, modeled hose and gloves for Playboy Magazine and was the original model for Playboy's joke page. They still use a likeness of her today...
This was about the time that Herbie got the idea to put panty hose in plastic eggs and called them Leggs. Herbie made several million dollars for the idea...
Ted May Saga: Pumpkin Seed Boats
http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...cons/icon1.gif Ted May A Saga
<hr style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> I will start this tread saying, I loved Ted May like a brother, or maybe a dad. I will say this post may not be true. It will have views of Ted May that I know or have heard. I thought that BRF had a Ted May thread but I can't find it.
So, here goes my Ted May Story
I was born in '44 so in order to race APBA Stock had to be 12 years old. So, in theory, I could not have started racing until April 25th, 1956, but I started in May, 1955.
In the OLD DAYS we'd test on Saturday behind Seaboard Equipment and Sam's Sea Food in Sunset Beach. On Sunday, we'd go to Bixby Slough, in San Pedro where we could run in fresh water.
This Saturday and Sunday "TESTING" was a winter project.
While testing, we met Ted May. Ted had some little boats called "Pumpkin Seeds". They were little runabouts, about 8 feet long that looked like little Rinker boats.
Ted had three or four for these "Pumpkin Seeds" with no fins on the bottom and KG-7's with open stacks. Ted and his crew would "BROADY" those "Pumpkin Seeds" through the back swamps of Sunset Beach.
On Sunday, Bixby Slough had more room than Sunset Beach. So Ted would bring 5 cent balloons and make a race course using balloons as turn buoys.
At Bixby Slough, we would have "Cheater Sweepstakes".....as TED LOVED horse Racing. We'd have handicapped races, of course, Ted always won. But we had fun in those days.
In those days, Ted wore a football helmet and and football jersey while driving his "PUMPKIN SEED". boats.