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The White Night Mare, a Rergatta D Runabout 1960
My brother had just finished a 115 mile Needles Marathon, he was third. Carl Meyers and his brother, Kenny, are telling my brother I had won. In those days, you really never knew what was going on until it was over. Lake Havasu was big, wide and rough.
The young man looks like Mike Jackson (Old Alky), but don't know why an Alky racer would have been at a stock race.
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Parker 9 Hour, March 5, 1967
This is a twin engine "DeSilva Sled" that I ran at Parker, 1967. Didn't last too long. Most notable, we were broken down and on the trailer in the pits when Red Adair's Mandells broke a steering and ran a shore and right through this boat.
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Bay City, Michigan 1967: Stock Outboard Marathon Nationals
I had won the Marathon Nationals at Needles in 1966 in both C and D Runabout. So, for 1967, I built a new boat and went to Bay City, where they told me it was smooth. Hell, I flipped on the way to the first turn and blew part of the bottom off. Fred Miller loaned me his DeSilva for Sunday, and I won the second heat. Damn nice of Fred really, he let me keep all the prize money.
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Willard Bay, Utah 1973 Stock Nationals
I was kind of out of Stock Racing at this time, but I'd managed to win the Divisionals in D Runabout using my Marathon Boat. Keith Stippich was living in Uath and he called me and asked me to come. My dad had accepted the Motor Inspector Job. So, my dad and I decided to build a new boat for the race. I managed a second the first heat and in the second heat I managed to get in a first turn wreck after Dave Jenkin's gearcase locked up.
I sold the boat as soon as I got back to the pits.
This is a picture of my dad and me, 1973. I was 29, my dad was 64.
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Phyllis Winger: Island in the Sky with John Wayne
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79444...Sky/notes.html
My brother and John Drake pretty much dated Phyllis Winger at the same time, 1953. She was the only female in John Wayne's movie, Island in the Sky.
My brother went to Long Beach State where he got the name "Russ Thrill".
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AU When Stock Runabout Were Called Utilities
This is at Hart Park in Bakersfield, 1956. It was such a cool place to race, we went around an island, the first turn had no buoys. The second turn was a single pin. I watch 12 two man F Runabout race there and a mother duck and her 12 ducklings swam across the starting lint to the island, right in the middle of 12 F Runabouts. To everyone's relief, they made it to the island unharmed. But then, the damn fools decided to come back to shore. Everyone of them made it, why they didn't get run over was a miracle.
Bob Parrish of Bakersfield is in 2-C, DeSilva hull and KG-4, me, at 12 years old in my Morehouse.
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1966 16 Foot Glastron and 17 Foot Glastron 1967: Ron Hill's Twin Engine Boats
OMC asked me to drive at the Havasu World Championships, 1966. A 16 footer seemed big, til I stood on the gas. In 1967, I ran a 17 foot Glastron and it handled better. I won the Chicago to Milwaukee to Chicago Marathon and the Havasu, Outboard World Championships (Twin Engine).