Top 10 "old Racers " who will kick your butt.

[Matt Dagostino]

Racer That Will Kick Your Butt.................

This thread begins and ends with one name. Clark Maloof 6-B. The Devil lives!!

[joep72n]

What About Ron Waterson And Hunter Grimes, Tucker Doelger, And I Vote For My Dad(gerald Pemberton)

[Norm Schaub]

How about:
Jerry Waldman
Bob Herring
Hank Menzies
Carl, Keith and Gary Stippich
Stover Hire
Brad Schaub
Fred Miller
Don Allen

[Robert M Keogler]

Captain America-Shame on you

I always found Clark Maloof to be a rather interesting Driver with a unique
driving style going into the turns!

Bob Keogler

[spunky64w]

The best from the Midwest

Of course Andy Hansen, the guy not only dated Mother Nature but he shows the kids around the course weekend after weekend. I mean he looks more like a a jet propelled sea lion than an actual person when he races ASR.

Copper Jess anyone? He's been around so long he's become synonomis(sp?) with my racing mental image. He may not be consistantly on the top anymore, but he still pulls 'em outta the bag when we least expect it.

The Zolkar team? Joey was mentioned but I remember TK as a force to reconded with when placed in a helmet. Can't forget this duo in the top ten.

This one may not be very fair, but I can't not nominate my dad-Steve Warnock. One cannot ignore 7 National Championships, 7 National High points, 1 winter Nats, 2 World Championships and some record setters strewn here and there as well. It's hard to ignore what's in one's own bassement.

Del Snyder also. There's a reason we called him Dangerous Del.

Fred Hauenstien of course. The man is legendary, especially with his oragne color schema and annual a$$ kickings.

Mike Frank I have to mention again. The only thing that would stop him from racing is a frozen lake. He's one of those guys you're always looking around for on the course.

All of these guys are still activly racing too. With the exception of Del, whom we all know would be if he could. I think that says a lot on it's own.

[spunky64w]

The best from the Midwest

Of course Andy Hansen, the guy not only dated Mother Nature but he shows the kids around the course weekend after weekend. I mean he looks more like a a jet propelled sea lion than an actual person when he races ASR.

Copper Jess anyone? He's been around so long he's become synonomis(sp?) with my racing mental image. He may not be consistantly on the top anymore, but he still pulls 'em outta the bag when we least expect it.

The Zolkar team? Joey was mentioned but I remember TK as a force to reconded with when placed in a helmet. Can't forget this duo in the top ten.

This one may not be very fair, but I can't not nominate my dad-Steve Warnock. One cannot ignore 7 National Championships, 7 National High points, 1 winter Nats, 2 World Championships and some record setters strewn here and there as well. It's hard to ignore what's in one's own bassement.

Del Snyder also. There's a reason we called him Dangerous Del.

Fred Hauenstien of course. The man is legendary, especially with his orange color schema and annual a$$ kickings.

Mike Frank I have to mention again. The only thing that would stop him from racing is a frozen lake. He's one of those guys you're always looking around for on the course.

All of these guys are still activly racing too. With the exception of Del, whom we all know would be if he could. I think that says a lot on it's own.

[Skoontz]

Though most remember him from his gas pedal boat racing days, Jimbo McConnell was a very hard guy to beat in kneelers. Two favorite stories about him came from Russ Hill. First, was Jimbos first race, walking up to Russ's mom asking about what he had to do to race....Behind him was this busted, rotten wreck of a boat with an engine about the same....Jimbo had $25.00 on him, had to join the APBA, enter a club, and enter the race...So, Russ's mom looks at someone and says, we have to let this kid race....So she takes his $25.00 and lets him run, circa 1956 or so...Enter the birth of a legend. Jimbo gets better...Beats Russel in a race, jumps out in about neck high water asking if he did something wrong....Russ answers in a beaten disgusted voice "No Jimbo, you did'nt do anything wrong, ya beat me, that's all"

And lastly, Jimbos drive down the hill towing this boat under a perfectly fit canvas....Pottowottomee Park, St. Charles, Illinois.........The gun metal grey El Camino pulls into the parking lot and this guy with a weird animal name of 'Goat" gets out, looks at the water, looks at Jimbo, who was clad in cowboy boots and a white cowboy hat like the ones the Mexicans wear when they are having a neighborhood party....
They mumble, and under the canopy of the El Camino are about 6 OMC gearfeet in holding crates, all in Aluminum Oxide OMC primer. Goat gets one out, leans it on the boat trailer wheels, balancing the skeg on a shop rag....

Then he shakes one of those oddly shaped Tempo spray laquer cans OMC had back in the day and blows on the color of the Strangler....That real bad looking gold they ran about 1970....

As Goat bolts on the gearfoot, Jimbo rolls the convas off what was the first Molinari I ever got to touch....As it came from back to front, off and over the cockpit, there were 3 dozen 6" black Merc stackers stickers with the names and places of the races he showed them around the course, then later had them for lunch.... He autographed a copy of Johnson's Jottings that I had with, and a poster of when OMC cleaned house at the Ohio Nationals, about 1969...

When the cannon fired that day in his heat, by the first turn he already had 6 boat lengths on the pack, and through the first and second turn, to the 3rd turn, he half coursed the pack, or so it seemed.....Then he let off the throttle, and I was bummed because I could not hear his exhaust over the Merc stackers he left in the spray.... I think I was about 11 then. He had nearly ended his kneeler carreer by then and gone full on sit down push the gas....

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

couple more

Dont think I have seen:

Phil Van Syckle
The Miskerik brothers
Dave Hoggard
Jim "Buckeye Bullet" McDonough
Don Hagerl
Vic Brinkman
Tom Johnston
Tom Sutherland
Jack Neeley

Sorry to be so Michigan specific, but there has been a bunch of good drivers from that state.

Brad Schaub, Tommy Kargus and Joey Z did some but kicking in their day but they are far from old!!!

Sure hope to see all three on a race course someday soon!

[Steve Johnson]

Teige

Tom Moulder
Hank Teige
TRIDENT
Uncle Ronny, He beat a bunch of them with some of the worst, cast away boats, motors and props you can imagine
Who else can I call OLD and get away with it?

[14J]

This thread begins and ends with one name. Clark Maloof 6-B. The Devil lives!!

I vote for you “Captain”

In the twilight of his life and arguably the best hydro driver man has ever seen. He's a real AMERICAN HERO!

[thetrailergod]

ever notice that the list of names of theese old boat racers most of them still racing or involved it it, out weigh the list of current young racers?? whats up with the younger people??? guess they just dont know what life is all about mmmm Jeff

[D_Allen_III]

Bruce "Andy" Hanson, no question about it. When I can read about someone in Speed & Spray and then get my A$$ whooped by him the next weekend, it makes the choice pretty easy for me.

[aojesus]

I wouldn't call her a guy, and I wouldn't call her old, but Micky Fickett kicked some serious butt on many occaisions. We lost a lot when we lost Dick Fickett.

[johnml390]

BURT HOEFS..... end of story, Haha

[jmp-retired]

jmpretired

Great Old Time Racers:

Hal Barnes
Gene Lambert
Jim Sweeney SR.

And From The Pacific N.W.

Mike Raich
Lee Sutter