The title should read 1977-1985!
I drove EP and Mod VP, occasionally also JP, from 1977-1985 and am posting a few pictures here. I invite my old competitors to add their own photos to the link.
Best wishes,
Joe McCauley
(EP Class record at 70.560 mph)
Picture captions
1. My and Jay Cox's boats at the factory in Louisville, Tenn., on the way to Eufaula in 1977. My blue/white rig won both closed course and marathon nationals in 1977,
and the marathon nationals in 1978.
2. On the way to Havasu in 1979
3. 1982 13' Allison on the left. this was the best -turning and fastest EP bpat. Record setting XR-14 on the right, the
70.560mph EP record was never broken.
4. Start of the 1977 season at Lake Dallas
5. Darris, Paul, and Lucille at Eufaula, 1977. Someone told me that Paul came to watch me, I'd
known him since 1958 and this was my first year to race since 1960.
6. Jay Cox. I drove Jay's rig in GP, it was the fastest boat on the course by far, but the transom jack broke
before I made it to the first turn. John Calley bought the boat and raced it 1978-1982, when Terry Strack bought it.
7. Joe Burgess' EP rig. Joe didn't take EP seriously but was always competitive in GP with an older
narrow pad 15' Allison.
8. Driving Louis Collins' former Laser at Havasu in 1981, but the rig wasn't competitive. However,
it handled like a dream, I turned inside of everyone on the course.
3. Havasu 1979, motor (160 c.i.) courtesy of Tom Ireland and Jim Nerstrom. Bill Muncey got a similar Evinrude
and Kenny Shaw (who won) got the Johnson. Tom was really hacked off that I didn't win, so the motor had
to be shipped to someone else, who bought it.
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