I still can remember the 74' Nats, probably due to the fact that 4 heats were needed for all the AOH's (43 boats). This meant that only the top 3 places from each heat would go on to race in the...
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I still can remember the 74' Nats, probably due to the fact that 4 heats were needed for all the AOH's (43 boats). This meant that only the top 3 places from each heat would go on to race in the...
This is very sad news. He was a great guy, and I always liked watching Trebor race 500 Hydro back thru the 70's & early 80's. Always seemed like a hard & tough driver.
I can remember one...
I had a blue Flivver boat from from the late 70's to the early eightys. It had a 35hp Johnson, and hauled butt pretty good. Some of my fondest memories was playing with that silly thing after school...
Katie & Bill ran the "Central Fla Outboard Racing Assn", they pretty much spearheaded the Lakeland/Orange Cup race every year (as well as always hosting a great Saturday night party/banquet at...
Suncoast Outboard Racing Assn.
Was alive and well from approx 1975 - 1982. My Father was the Commodore for most of its existence. We hosted alot of races at Lake Alfred, Tarpon Springs, Ocoee, and...
[QUOTE=Master Oil Racing Team;28143]Seems to me we did a little bit of thinking along those same lines of your mechanical advance also Sam. That was before Ray came up with his automatic advancer.
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Wasn't it also at Hinton that year, where Mel Kirts dumped it real hard in the 700 Runabout race.
The flip caused a pretty deep gash in one of his Arms. By the time he (& the boat) were brought...
Whats just as amazing is that Marcel can also fly his collection of aircraft (with one eye) just as good as Chuck Yeager!
He's taken me up in his Beachcraft (which I understand isn't the easiest...
Hi Bob,
Thanks for these photo's & story's, they brought back some old deep memories. I'm not sure exactly how I can still remember any of this stuff from that era (as I was at the most only 6 years...
Jeff, You sure thats a Schumacher?
I could be wrong, but I was thinking it had more of a "Yale" look. Did Danny ever have/race a Yale before he had/raced Schumachers?
In most of the 70's era of...
Wayne,
I don't remember the year of the San Antonio PRO Nationals (1978 I seem to believe), but I do remember a rather amazing flip (I think it was a blowover in a 500 or 700, but it was so long ago...