need to see pictures

[Master Oil Racing Team]

The picture was taken at the Eastern Divisionals at Winona in 1974 Ron. At that time it was owned by Bill Profitt.

[Skoontz]

Wayne:

As I read your post mentioning QB, I feel your pain. I have a 4" stack across my desk right bnow, and the top is 3'.5'x7' wide. I had a book keeper, and another, and yet another...From the ones who simply did not have a clue, to the one who argued with me as to why I should not waste time job costing when we finished work, I got rid of them all until we find one who does it the way we need it to be done. I simply hate accounting, but it is a necesaary evil.

These pictures Frank asked for, are a great way to relax under the pile....

[JohnsonM50]

[QUOTE=fbref5269;69343]hi all,

it's tax season, i'm up to my butt with returns and listening to pink floyd. i need to see pictures from any race or antique outboard event. it's saturday, going to 75 today, monday we got 7 inches of snow and then temps in the single digits. ya gotta love maryland weather. so i amyone going to an event where noise will be heard? if so post some pitucres please, i needa break.

frank
collector of old stuff that was new when i raced

I woulda thought from your weather review you were in Jersey, Md.s close tho. Are ya goin to Mays this year?

[fbref5269]

thanks again for the pictures. sure is nice to look at them when i need a break!

here's a tax story if you will indulge me.... i have a client who i found out has AIG for their workman's comp insurance. i told them under no uncertain terms to get another carrier and when you cancel AIG tell them it's because of the $165 million in bonuses. the only way these greedy sobs understand is if you hit them in their pocket.

what does AIG stand for???? ain't i greedy

back to listening little feat(dixie chicken and old folks buggie) and taxes.

frank

[Pete Nydahl]

Ron,that May boat came from my dad.Heres a pic from June 1972.He ran his 6banger and an OMC V-4 on it in the "X" class

[Master Oil Racing Team]

It looks like that might be you Pete, washing the boat down. Is it?

[Ron Hill]

That boat looked like my May Craft...It makes sense that Ted built that boat for Ray Nydahl....Seems, we should add this picture to the Ted may thread...Ted May was an amazing person!!!!

That plywood on the dash, was something we bought for like $1.99 a sheet for "SHORTY" at National Lumber....It was from China before everythingwas from China...but Ted Liked it...he would have made the bottom out of it, but they only made it in 1/8....

ADD: Alan Ishi is coming to Puddingstone, this weekend...I hope he bring some old pictures to post on BRF....

Vito Adragna and Ted built those boats in Vito's driveway!!!!

ADD:

Ray Nydahl and Ted may got along as if they were brothers. Ted was born in 1941, I often wonder when Ray was born....as people from the same ears seem to bond.........but the truth is, RAY was hard to NOT LIKE!!!!!!

[Pete Nydahl]

Thats me,7 years old.Seems like I still wash the boatsGreat story Ron.Ray was born in 1931.They must have become friends back in the early OMC racing days.I think it was new in 1971

[Ron Hill]

If you were 7 in 1971.....When Ted and I met your dad in 1966, you weren't very old...

I raced for Harry Bartolomei in 1967, Ted May had driven for him in 1966, Ted wasn't "FIRED" by Harry...It was really that the DeSilva boys liked me and I had the summer off from teaching. Ted didn't really work in those days, but he didn't like to be away from SoCal for very long...

When 1968 came around, I'd won Havasu in the fall of 1967 and won $8,500 in cash...I bought myself a "D" Konig for $1,000 and my dad bought me a "C" Konig...We'd ordered new boat for CU-DU and a a C-D R"ALKY" Runabout...but Ted "PLAYED" Poverty and talked me into a "D" Alky hydro...I really never like hydros, though I had won the John Ward Trophy Racer...and had about 5-6 seconds at Nationals in hydros...

So, my MAy Craft was built three years before your dad's....

Ted said he'd build the boat for $500, if I paid in advance....

When I got to DePue in 1968, I had never run my C-D DeSilva Runabout or my MayCraft C-D Hydro...I was pitted next to Ray Nydahl and Bruce Summers....I never knew they raced, I just thought they worked for OMC...I ended up with three seconds that year...

But I left DePue with two life long friends...Ray Nydahl and Bruce Summers...

Ray quit OMC, that next spring, I think...Our paths seldom crossed after that...

[Master Oil Racing Team]

That was my first trip to DePue Ron. I didn't race that year. Nick Marchetti had built us a B hydro, a C/D hydro and a monster 13-2 F hydro. Nick built the boats then told my Dad to come to DePue to pick them up. My sister Brenda went with pit man Bud Turcotte and myself to go pick them up. We just watched the races, and I remember you from reading about you in the magazines. I think Rich Fuschlin was another name that I heard of but never saw in action until then.

At that point, we only raced Lone Star and N.O.A. The NOA rulebook had a rule that said drivers would be penalized if they raced in other than NOA sanctioned races if I remember correctly. After returning from DePue, I told my Dad that there were a lot of the NOA racers that we knew racing there. In those days the Lone Star crowd only went that far north for the NOA World Championships---no APBA races. I told him about all the boats and how many elimination heats there were, all the spectators, and he decided that we would race APBA as well. The first big race that came up after that was the Winternationals at Needles in 1969. So that was where I officially met you Ron. And I can tell you no young racer was prouder than me to be in a picture with Bob Hering, and that other one with you, Kay Harrsison and myself.

We first got to know Ray at the end of 1969...again I think at DePue. We installed the OMC CD ignition system Ray designed on all our motors and ran them all through the 1970 season. At that time my Dad and his partner Joe Hendricks had bought an OMC dealership in Corpus Christi and Clayton Elmer moved down from Highlands to run it. We were big fans of this ignition, but it was very erratic for us on the alky motors. We gave them all back to Ray after the last race at Alex in 1970. We remained good friends, and served on the racing commission together in the mid 70's and early 80's.