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    Default Bobby Switzer's Canton, Ohio Boat???

    Dear Ron,

    In your one of your emails, you said: " you remember Canton OH. like it was yesterday" by any chance do you have or know of anyone that may have a photograph of me in that race...? I was in an expermantal "reverse 3 point tunnel " boat that we designed for single engine, and one of our employees rigged it with 2 motors and said: " why don't you enter this combination in the twin engine class? I headed east to "Canton" without even a pair of matching props. I stopped by Jan Schoonovers in Lima OH. where he loaned me a pair of 17 pitch props. I went on to Canton, gave her one test, where she peaked out at and instant 87 mph, and the rest was history, alaha...a 1st place victory in the unlimited class.

    I'd really like to have a photo of that boat running.

    Looking forward to your findings.

    Yours truly,

    Bob "Switzer"

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    I would really appreciate it if you would post a message asking your following if anyone has photos of our Reverse 3 point Unlimited class boat from the Nationals in Canton Ohio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonHill View Post
    Dear Ron,

    In your one of your emails, you said: " you remember Canton OH. like it was yesterday" by any chance do you have or know of anyone that may have a photograph of me in that race...? I was in an expermantal "reverse 3 point tunnel " boat that we designed for single engine, and one of our employees rigged it with 2 motors and said: " why don't you enter this combination in the twin engine class? I headed east to "Canton" without even a pair of matching props. I stopped by Jan Schoonovers in Lima OH. where he loaned me a pair of 17 pitch props. I went on to Canton, gave her one test, where she peaked out at and instant 87 mph, and the rest was history, alaha...a 1st place victory in the unlimited class.

    I'd really like to have a photo of that boat running.

    Looking forward to your findings.

    Yours truly,

    Bob "Switzer"

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    I would really appreciate it if you would post a message asking your following if anyone has photos of our Reverse 3 point Unlimited class boat from the Nationals in Canton Ohio.
    I don't know if that was Bob's prefered name for the boat but, for sure he seemed to have the UU field covered by 10 mph and it would turn. Ken Soller told me after a test run Bob took off his life jacket and walked through spectators asking questions. He found a guy that had watched it run very carefully. "Was there spray coming off the center pod?" Guy said, Yes! Bob went over and kicked engines out a little.
    I had a picture of Fred Miller sitting behind the wheel with a big straw hat on and another with "Charlie" standing behind the boat draped with cameras. Sorry no running shots, just good memories.

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    That sounded like a classic Bobbyism. He could sell an eskimo ice cubes and there he was, doing his thing for Switzercraft once again!

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    1967 OPC Nationals, Canton, Ohio

    Swittzercraft's unique reverse thre point hull that Bobby drove to victory in the Unlimited Twin Engine classs.
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    Dave Little of "All American Hot-Rod" fame and I were working the
    judge's stand at that race. I will check with him to see if he has
    any footage of that boat running. I go by the lake quite often and
    brings back a lot of memories. We raced Stocks and OPC's there in
    the early/mid 60's. I remember Guy Lombardo was playing at the
    Moonlight Ballroom at the lake and took my dad's "B" runabout for
    a ride on a pre-race Saturday test day. He came in and told my dad "you
    guys are crazy, there is no way I would race one of these things !"

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    What Lake in Canton is that? Thanks.Smitty

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    Quote Originally Posted by ssmith007 View Post
    What Lake in Canton is that? Thanks.Smitty
    That was Meyer's Lake which is located inside the city limits. There
    used to be an amusement park there and was famous for the "Moonlight
    Ballroom" where a lot of the big bands played in the 40's and 50's.

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    I never knew they had races there. Did they also race in Akron? Thanks. Smitty

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    They ran OPC's and stocks on the lake up until the late 60's.
    The Akron area hosted quite a few races at Summit Lake and
    Turkey Foot......OPC's mostly but they used to include some
    knee jockey stuff on occasion. Thinking that they might have
    run some OPC's at Summit Lake into the late 70's.....have
    heard that they had a permanent course set up there so they
    (OPCers) could test during the week.
    We are currently running Stocks and Mods on Springfield Lake
    which is just east of Akron in the village of Lakemore. Ran there
    in the 80's and into mid 90's......had a bit of a problem with
    racing there until last summer and all things seem to be a go
    for '09. Check out the Three Rivers site for dates:

    http://www.trora.com/index.html

    http://www.trora.com/Site_Pages/Akron-OH.html

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    Default Meyers Lake, Canton, OH

    I remember racing on Meyers Lake in Early 60's. I believe it was a TROA race. My brother Bert lost his "A" lower unit and prop in the lake during that race. That kinda finished his short racing career. We were from Lorain, OH and my APBA boat numbers were 14S and 16S.

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