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Master Oil Racing Team
That is a great picture Dale.
Gene...I didn't know Jerry had used that expression before. I only remember taking the picture and my Dad was talking to Jerry when I took the picture. My Dad was always very sad when he saw that picture and told whoever it was what Jerry said. I didn't hear it. My dad remembered it very well and told me what Jerry said
That picture of Marshall getting out of the boat is priceless to me. I only have a couple of frames, and at the time I knew I should take the picture. It is not a good picture at all, and I don't have one of Marshall driving. We were testing at the same time. Nobody else was around. Jerry Waldman was Captain of the North, Marshall Grant Captain of the East, Baldy Baldwin Captain of the South, and Captain of the West was not there yet. It was the day before most everyone else would arrive. Baldy, Jerry and Marshall talked informally about the Invitational, but since it was calm, we were all testing. Like Joe Rome and I always talk about..."We didn't know what we were in the middle of. It was just happening. We were there. We just didn't think about it at the time". We had had an inkling from Marshall though that his Alky racing was coming to an end. Billy Seebold had been driving for him since 1968, and for the past couple of years had been driving mostly OPC for Mercury. Billy only made two or three alky races that year that I can remember. That's why I ran to get my camera to take a picture of Marshall slipping out of that K-4 hydro. That life jacket goes back to when he was racing earlier in his career and Johnny Cash said he had to give it up to be in the band.
(Johnny Cash loved the starting cannon though that Marshall would sometimes fire off at a hotel).)
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