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That's interesting. Well "Fireball" DeSouza plays a part in this next story. It was the last time I wrote any extensive notes on a race. I was so pumped, I wrote it down on my flight home.
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Thanks for the info J Dub. I was wondering if you ever heard of "Fireball" DeSouza. He is in the next part of the story. I never got a roster of drivers from Yelm and my notes only mention a...

Probably. I remembered him from DeLake in 1979 and at Yelm, but I had forgotten what he looked like.

While looking for more pics of Yelm I came across a misfiled sheet. All the remaining B&W negs have no contact sheets or dates. I discovered a few rare negatives of our shop. I reget I never took...

I took only a few pics at Yelm this year. I don't know who this is. I zoomed in and it resembled Rusty Rae, but I don't recall him ever running anything but stock, and maybe mod.

I flew into Olympia, arriving on September 11. We stayed at the Bailey Motor Inn. My Dad Baldy and I did some Master Oil promotion and had dinner a couple of nights with Henry Wagner and Harry...

Looking over my notes I found we got a lot of publicity for our Master Oil boats and were doing some successful promotions. I had to keep track of all that stuff for IRS purposes. Gene Whipp and...

Knowing Dieter and Harry personally, and having some personal insight as to the cost of patterns and casting....Dieter did not make a change to obsolete Harry's efforts. To get the aluminum castings...

It is a B Bill Van...I have another photo of Dan next to Doug Thompson who won B hydro that year. But that's not to day that it wasn't done with a C too.

The steering wasn't bad because of...

Check this out Bill Van and Dan. DePue 1972.

Bill Van...while searching through my pics I came across a couple of more that surprised me. I haven't looked closely, but it may have something to do with the C you are talking about. ...

I will John when I get back to a scanner. The reason is I found two more views from an angle on the front which I will include. It's not as close, but it will have more detail.

What a find for you John. I took this picture only 5 months after I bought my first Nikon following the full refund on an engagement ring I had just bought.:eek:;):D I wasn't filing pics then. ...

A couple of more pics. The black & white is another from Hot Springs in 1972 and the color is also 1972...the very first AOF alky race at Gravois Mills, Missouri. Unable to tell anything much from...

No Bill Van.....I am not saying it's a Konig....I noticed the same thing you did. What I was doing was posting the picture of the motor you were talking about. 1972 is the only time I remember Kay...

Kay Harrison at LaCrosse in the first pic. Here is the motor you were talking about Bill Van. This was taken at Hot Springs in 1972. I am not sure though that the powerhead turned. I have several...

Bob Rhoades had the switcheroo also on his 500 hydro. He was fully loaded with ZAK equipment too. As Bill Van stated, this was 72-74. Later Dieter made castings for dual use. Motorcycles and...

I agree with Bill Van, Jerry. It's great to see your posts.

I do remember your being very vocal about the venue, and I had a notation about your feelings in my journal going somewhere back to...

That's some good history Bill Van. I remember the origins of 350 class, but the RB was coming along the time I was dropping classes and heading in other directions. I still have the rules for the...

Two days later we were home. A long time gone. After I got to the office Ralph Donald called. He got a bid from Yelm to host the 1100 hydro and runabout classes, and one from Acworth for the...

Thanks Pete. I never got many photos of your Dad Ray, expecially since we often ran in the same heats. Here is one. Not too good, but better than nothing.

Here are a few random pics from qualifying. A couple of the guys I don't know. Whether Sunday finals were cancelled because of weather or drivers packing up, I can't remember. We packed up. Word...

So you can tell me at Florida Tim.;):D

Bill, the RB class is one of the two Joe and I thought might have been run. They ran up to the start a little early in the first pic. Rough water. ...

This was only the second time since I began racing that the racing commission was called into emergency session. The first time was at DePue in 1974 when there was only a few feet of water. This...

to continue....I had mentioned previously there was a lot of discontent. The bad weather helped foment that. Many drivers who had no place to test before a nationals were very unhappy that they...

I had forgotten about that. But it was fun to go back and look at all those old posts and pictures. Thanks Jeff and Glenn. Was there a particular name you had for your boat style Glenn? Such as...

I don't know David. I thought Tim Chance might have checked in by now to tell you about his boat. It had those ?"air traps" (forgot what they were called) on the deck from part way back on the...

We rigged up our 700 and 1100 hydros, but we didn't go out on the water. Some people tested and there may have been some qualifying heats run. I can't remember. Rain was on and off for a little...

Last week a BRF ex OPC racer from Texas PM'd me about someone he met, and it was an amazing coincedence as I was just about to post this part. We did a lot of hanging around in the pits after we...

....There were a few forebodings before we ever got to LaCrosse. A rumbling of discontent from across the Midwest found its way to a lot of the racers. Bill Van would probably know most of the...

We had been to races before where there had been rainouts, bad weather etc. But it usually only lasted one day. If that day was Sunday....we packed up and went home.

At this race, there was a...

Bill..I have looked through the stuff and so far all I found has been a short clip of the Hydroglobe 77. All the good stuff is still missing.

And Mike...You got me straight. You saved me from...

During the past few days at Dayton, word had gotten around about the strange looking device duct taped to the windshield of my Dad's suburban. I explained how it was supposed to work and the proper...

I am very honored to be considered among those guys on your short list Brian. That was very interesting that your boat racing career was advanced by four of the guys on the podium and another...

When I talked to Tim a couple of days ago he reminded me of what was going through his mind as he stood on the podium in 1977 after winning the OD World Championships. He thought to himself as he...

I don't remember how close it was at the finish. Debbie couldn't follow boats with a telephoto straight in front of her, plus I guess she wanted to watch the finish through her own eyes instead of a...

Since I didn't have any notes and few pictures, I called Tim Butts to find out what he remembered about the race. His memory wasn't much better than mine, but after talking back and forth about what...

Dan and Jerry both ran at Hinton in 1977, so you did see it run there JGosman. And you are right...it was fast.:cool: Your notice of the roundblocks.....Yeah...there were some fast ones. Square...

As Fast Fred would say....:cool:

Here's what is left to be developed. I did label a few. Some are soccer games, 95,96. I know one is a flood where Alexis and I had to hike cross country to get home because flood waters closed the...

So Dave, I guess you are joining in with Joe and Jeff and hinting that I need to get my A$$ in gear and develope some film taken during the previous century in a timely manner.?;):D

David....I...

That's not the problem Jeff.:D They should still be OK having kept them in climate control, but they are roll your own, and when I did a lot of that, sometimes I would get in a hurry and not label...

I was wondering about that Jeff. I was going by how he sat in the boat, but you can definitely make out a distinctive cowling. How I could kick myself for not taking pics in the pits after everyone...

One way you can tell is that Jerry Kirts hunches over and leans his head forward, while Jeff Hutchins' back is more straight and he keeps his head vertical or sometimes tilted back if he is leaning...

Some more action. John Yale fighting off Jerry Kirts driving Elmer Grade's F888. Can't tell who's in the kneeler in the background. This is the first heat.

After I posted these first pics, I discover that it is Roy Alexander in his own boat and Greg Hall is pitting for him. On the other side is the forks of Jerry Peterson's X 12 and in the forground is...

A few more inboard hydros before I get back to Pro 700 hydro.

Well...at least I confirmed J-1. I had thought that was George Andrew's number, and it was so George was probably there. What had me confused was D-14 and I thought of Skip Birbarie except that he...

I'm trying to identify those that raced in 700 Hydro by some shots I haven't posted yet, and some that I have. I don't know who may have driven D-14. And there's a couple of boats and one driver in...

I never looked in detail at a Yale Jeff, but the handles at the transom are like Tim used on the boats with an afterplane. Also, when we lowered the cog with shorter towers, Tim put a more sever...