What happen to these days

[Danny Pigott]

Randy Johnson's Marchetti an D Looper.

[Danny Pigott]

Randy Johnson's son Marc is MJR. He built the Hydros that hold the APBA kilo records in 350 113 mph & 500 126 mph cc Hydro. His other son Chris Johnson runs CSH in APBA. To see a race boat in a parade now days would be rare.

[Composite Specialties]

Chris and I still have that Marchetti boat under the shed here. I remember that day well, we had to rig the boat and then place it on the trailer for the parade.

The lake where the races were held is still there, looks exactly the same but the city will not let the lake be used for anything but fishing now.

[Tim Chance]

I was there, I remember that race/race site. I still don't know why my crew didn't win the $100.00, we didn't have holes in the knees of any of our blue jeans.

[Composite Specialties]

Tim, was that the same race that Jimmy Aderholt attempted the "C Alky Hydro" kilo and missed because he came in the pits to refuel before the return pass?
Also, was that the same time that Bill Fails blew over his runabout on the kilo run?

[Tim Chance]

Tim, was that the same race that Jimmy Aderholt attempted the "C Alky Hydro" kilo and missed because he came in the pits to refuel before the return pass?
Also, was that the same time that Bill Fails blew over his runabout on the kilo run?

I was asleep in my camper and it was just after daybreak when I awoke to the sweet sound of a six-cylinder flathead running at top rpm. Then the rpm picked up and then complete silence. I threw on some clothes and ran down to the lake bank. My memory isn't totally clear but it seems like it took forever to get Bill into shore and that they floated him in next to the rescue boat.

I'll never forget that sound. . .

. . . and then no sound.

I don't recall Jimmy coming in for fuel. I may have written something in Hydroplane Quarterly, I'll see if I can find it.