After I get done with Dayton, Hinton Pro Nationals is next Dave. That little demonstration with Master Oil is one that my Dad liked to do because it really showed how much that oil could move on its own.
On the T shirt---they were made for a Master Oil promotional at the OD World Championships but they weren't ready in time. The original boat was supposed to be Shadowfax with the D Konig, but we had bad lighting and the image was too small to make for a good pic. We always tested in the morning because South Texas winds start kicking up about 10 am. But the boats are backlit then. The clock was ticking to get the photo off so we finally had to settle for an afternoon run one day. The 700 hydro was too fast for my brother Mark to catch in the frame at close range so we ran the 350 hydr0. I gave him my Nikon with a motor drive and 200 mm lens with a full 36 exposure roll. I made a slow pass for him to prefocus and told him when I got close on the fast runs just press down the button and follow through. As it turned out, only one photo had the full frame of the boat. The one slow pass where he prefocused. I always hated that picture because the whole boat was ploughing through the water. But we ran out of time. We didn't even get them in time for Dayton so the first time we sold any was at Hinton and we weren't even advertising there. But we had a whole bunch to get rid of. They did become popular and we unloaded most of them there.
As far as Debbie goes, there were a number of people at Hinton that didn't even know we were married. We had only been married four months at that time and we stuck close to our pits. We were on one end and now I really regret not walking all the way to the other end with my camera. There would have been many pits shots I could sure use now. Especially of a lot of the East Coast guys I didn't cross paths with that much.
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