I just saw this about Bill. Very sorry to hear about his passing.Rest in peace Bill.
I just saw this about Bill. Very sorry to hear about his passing.Rest in peace Bill.
Talked to Reed Riddle, today, he said Bryan McDougall has passed. He was a Stock and Alky racer.
Last edited by Ron Hill; 11-08-2020 at 05:17 PM.
My last real encounter with Brian was at DePue 1969. He'd blown his DeSilva C Racing Runabout, powered by a VC Konig over backwards and tore the boat up pretty badly. I had sold both my 13 Foot DeSilva (Ray Lenk).and my 13'6" DeSilva. (Tom Small as I recall). So, we had room on our trailer to hall his boat to DeSilva's in California. I never heard anything about Brian and the 1953 Nationals.
But now that I think about it, I did see Brian at a couple Utah races after that, but had heard he was having some heart problems.
Always a super nice guy!
Last edited by Ron Hill; 11-08-2020 at 05:17 PM.
As I recall, Ivan had won the 1952 Nationals in Oakland, California. He won again in 1953, and as he was walking out of the inspection tent, he heard someone was DQ'd for reed stop height. the inspector had not checked his reed stop heights. (The motor had a factory seal). Ivan asked the inspector to check his reed stops and they were illegal. They tossed Ivan out.
My dad had inspected Ivan's motor in '52.
But in 1953, my dad DQ'd Bobby Switzer for raised reed stops on a new Mark 40-H.
My dad always suspected someone at Mercury had rasied the reed stop height by mistake. As Bobby Switzer's motor had a factory seal the same as Ivan Harris.
Last edited by Ron Hill; 10-31-2020 at 06:55 PM.
Hearing the sad news that Charles Davis has passed away.
Andy Kirts has passed along the sad notice of the passing of Loren Perry. May he rest in peace at Lake Paradise.
Sad news out of Louisiana as Don Nichols passed away on Tuesday September 21st. Don won the 700cch National championship in 1986 , 500cch in 1987 and retired from racing shortly after that and turned his attention to building and tuning motors. May he rest in peace.
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