Great Old Stuff

[PopPop]

Everyone should enjoy some of this old-old stuff !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJH24Y3_Y9c

[HRTV]

Looks like nothing has changed the narration is priceless !!

[PETEG]

In The "old Hydroplanes" I Recognize The C87. Is That Paul Or Is Rich The Pilot???

[David Weaver]

Old Outboards

I thought that I saw Bruce Summers in the back-ground!!

What a great judges stand!!

Did you the steering on the boat where they had just set the engine on??Scarey stuff? How come the old iron started so easy back then?

I believe that some other drivers had C-87 before Rich.

[bill boyes]

This is long before Rich was born. This is before the BIG TWO War.

[Joel Kiddy]

no wonder apba had to step in that looks like a lawsuit city. although i wish the c servis stared like that.

[Tim Weber]

The old iron started easier way back because the original service c engines ran on gasoline and oil. They basically were stock engines. Methanol came in a few years later. Also, the didn't have hop up guys like Newton, Levindusky, Blankenstine etc who raised port timings, advanced rotor timing lowered cc'c etc. All that go fast stuff can make them hard to start.

Tim

[sam]

no wonder apba had to step in that looks like a lawsuit city. although i wish the c servis stared like that.

That was APBA (& NOA/NORC combined).

[T Chance]

When the narrator said "Fourteen year old Little Jackie Maypole" it made me want to do a little research. The year this film was made was 1931. John Maypole and his son Jack were returning to Illinois from the NOA Nationals in Oakland, California. At the Salton Sea MGM was filming a short movie about boat racing. They stopped, joined in and set several World records.

Incidentally, 1930 was Jack's first year racing and he won the first race he ever entered. And too, John Maypole ten years earlier had won the first race he ever entered.

[nbranews]

back in the days

I'm sure one of those drivers wa Burt Hoefs. I think I recognised his trailer in the shot of the pits.

[TPLACE31]

Looked like CSR at Lock Haven, pick a year.

[aojesus]

Thanks for the link!
The hurdles and one pin turns were impressive. I wonder how many hurdles before the bottoms blow out?