An Amazing Story: Part 2

[Master Oil Racing Team]

I was looking through my negatives and came across two that were very, very underexposed. This is an extremely rare pic of Bruce Nicholson in a hydro. I think it might be a Yale. I had never seen Bruce drive a hydro before. When I started racing, Bruce won the first race I ever entered. That was B runabout. Runabouts were very strong then in Texas and at many races A&B hydro were run together and CDF hydros were run together. Now in 1979 the tables had reversed. We didn't combine runabout classes, but hydros were by far more numerous by now. We had been putting on some good hydro races and I think it was Ray Yates who finally talked Bruce into getting back into a hydro after many years absence.