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Bob admits is it Guntersville.

I talked to Gerry Hedlund, today, he said Ron and Gerry ran 1-2 at Guntersville. Gerry was also sure that Keith Stippich didn't race DU at Beloit.

Jeff Fritz never race at Beloit. I think the D Runabout race, with Keith Stippich and I was 625 points might also be Guntersville.

This was an "ORANGE" or "ORANGEISH" metal flake 18' Switzer Wing at Parker, probably 1967 or 1968. More wings: http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/showthread.php?5798-About-Wings&highlight=wings

I just found this picture. I'm not sure where it came from, but it sure looks like Bobby Switzer in the driver's seat. What do you think?

Mark Spencer wrote the article. Mark father used to race M Outboard Hydro...

Some mentions of Kenny Stevenson here...

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Maybe this picture inspired the cartoon???

This is my Rich Hallett built twin engine Evinrude four point Hydro at Lake Havasu 1969. I'm in the boat.. I think that may be Fred Hauenstein holding the pickel fork, as it also looks like Francis...

Ron:
No truth to that story. Carl's departure came about as a result
of a major difference in management philosophy between him and the
chairman of Brunswick at that time, John Hanigan.

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You can read more about "KING" Barry Woods on this thread...

I SURE WISH you'd reconsider having an All Outboard Racer Legends Reunion....BRF could help...And St. ouis, every five years, would be about right...

MISSBK...

My wife says she hates to see men cry... but seeing my old "CRAYOLA SLEEK"...Big Number 9 "ROAR" onto plane at Havasu brought tears to my eyes...

I loved that boat. It drove like a...

Johnny,

Tell Leigh I don't take "SECOND HAND INFO" about racing facts...Tell him he has to post here himself...Then, I'll eat some humble pie....Love to hear from Leigh!!!!

ADD: Thanks for...

Seems, Lister won three in a row in CSH...I was thinking Bakersfield was the beginning of that "ROLL"...

Clark won DSH with a three blade, one of mine....I was second with a two blader...

I...

Seems Leigh almost beat Lister, and at the time, my father-in-law always told people Ron Hill Props were fast, and Leigh and Wolf, who ran DSH and died in his sleep that winter, John Stone and a few...

Ted loved boating and racing. He theory was, "If you do 99 per cent of your running testing, you only have a 1 per cent chance of breaking down in the race."

Ted should have had the nickname of...

When I wrote about MOUSE the other day.... I hope everyone ,l ike Kenny, Wade, Burt, Harold, Mac, Michael, and Michael "J", Ziggy, Goat....all realize that I knew then, as I know now, they didn't...

Seemed "MIKE" was the name, but I thought Mike Gwaltney, as I recall had curley hair...so, I was confused, which seems to happen more often, now days..

Thanks for filling in the blanks...
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Someone in Offshore had said they didn't think John Crouse was a Journalist..... That is funny, seems he graduated with a degree in Journalism, wrote a boat racing boat and covered hundreds of...

There was a time when all boat racers were "FAMILY"....then, they PROFESSIONALIZED IT....

Maybe, a return to "AM and Pro" would be worth a try...

Jim Fox...damn, that names rings a bell!!!A...

Switzer Wing..Gene Lanham...

September 1978...Boat News.

The second sing says, "Billy 'Don' Pruett is a cold blooded reptile..."

pulled by airplanes...July 1971...

They loved Bill "Don" Pruett..

Fred Hauenstein and Me...Who is the OMC Team Mechanic?

Looks like Bob "GOAT" Nagode congratulating Jimbo...

OMC hull... Jack Leek designed, Wilbur McDonald built...

Not sure the year, but John Drake was 13, but John passed away a month or two ago and he was 68...My brother is 71....Must have been 1949..

My dad told me that on the last straightaway before he...

When McCulloch first started selling lots at Havasu city...they'd fly you there fre...Half the residents in Havasu bought their lots on the 445 down deal and $45 a month...9Not sure that is true...

That OLD MAN on post number 272 the LEGEND, TED MAY...I'm guessing the picture was 1969...in Texas...If Wayne Baldwain posted the picture, the only time Ted may raced in Texas was 1969...he had my...

This is Jim Hunt, Powerboat, 1968....

Those Jones had a habit of once reaching a "SWEET FEEL", they took off... I think they needed more set back, because, they had none, except Pruett's Triple,...

1971, Bobby Herring is telling Renato who he needs to pass to win Single engine...

I always look back and think, if...Because I had a two lap lead on Mike Wallace at the two hour mark...One must...

Here is pictue of the boat that Scotti and I were to drive together in Berlin.

The second picture was when we did a photo shoot for the program, and Ted has been driving the old #33 all...

After breaking down in the late stages of Paris and not getting a ride at Berlin, when Havasu came, I decided I was ready to win...

Omc had four new "BIG CRANK" motors with 8 carbs...Everyone...

Gues the second picture didn't post...

Something about these pictures, maybe it is because I was in this race, but the pictures give me the feeling that you understand we were "RACING" for the...

Mike Wallace and I drove together in Paris, 1971...and as I wrote here, somewhere, I broke a crank with 30 minutes left...while leading...

The next weekend was Berlin, and we didn't get to Berlin...

This picture is at an intersting place...it is basically across from the pits, but there was a time when there were hundreds of tree stumps along the shoreline. I'm not sure when they may "SQUAW...

I'm not really sure that 1962 is right, but it seems I broke the DU Record there in '62....and if you look in the background, C-2 is Harry Bartolomei's DeSilva Runabout...and on top of his trailer is...

Rudy is going to run his ALLISON POWERED RAYSON CRAFT in the Parker 300, this October....

I was doing the "MATH", then, I realized it was realy arithmetic, but I'm 60 3/4 right now, if I live to be 95, I'll need to post 11.2 pictures from my boxes of pictures, every day, if I want all my...

This picture is on the cover of the 1972 Havasu program...

Want to guess who it is????

Orange Bowl Regatta 1962......

From Butch Stokes:

As soon as this Salton Sea smooths out, we'll floor it!!!!

Tom Percival was killed in a V-8, pre-capsule days? Is this correct? Or am I confused on this one?

My wife and I hung out with Tom Percival and his wife and Bob Spalding and his wife in Berlin,...

I'd never been in the South and the rain storms and humidity were a new experience for me...California born and bread....

In Guntersville they had this Go-Kart Track and it had cool banked turns,...

I think there was only one flight of DU qualifications...My wife is from Janesville...and I remember my dad landed at the Beloit/Janesville Airport....and he said he could see me leading my heat when...

But these results are from 1961 Guntersville, Alabama...

Well...think...
1. Ted May didn't go to Beloit in 1960. He had torn the transom out of his Swift at Lodi Lake and broke his tail bone. He...

I thought I got second with a one heat win...but maybe, the five restarts, when I was leading...is when Dean said I hadn't jumped....and he didn't see a reason for a restart...

Pontius in a Sid...

Interesting...Stan Armstrong won C Hydro that year, as its turned out his only National Championships...

Walter Huhn...from California...His son is in the heating and air conditioning business...

Hal Kelly was asked for his "LICENSE"....He replied, "Hell Mack, I ain't fishing." The Game Warden took him straight to jail.

We, Californians, were lucky, as we had already paid our "TAX" in...

Alan Stinson was the driver who co-drove with Jerry Walin, in 1970, to win Parker by a foot...Stinson could drive that old DeSilva wing...

Anyway, I thought Allison boats were built by him (Alan...

DeSilva Wing...First 100 inch V-4's OMC ever made...Finished third outboard...30th or so overall..