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TQ29m (Offline)
#9 6/20/21 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Stevensville Mike:
Yeah, I have to tip my purple cap to my late father. He got me hooked when I was a little guy, too. We lived in Detroit and I can remember standing on the Belle Isle Bridge looking through the slats in the railing. I was too small to see over the top. We were watching the APBA Gold Cup for the unlimited hydroplanes. This was 1965....? I was five years old. Ron Musson won driving the green and yellow Miss Bardahl. Sadly he was one of the drivers who lost his life the next year in DC.

But I can still hear the sounds of those boats to this day, and the excitement there was to be had.

SVM, I was right there with you only in 61 thru 62, my office was just outside the gates to Ft Mcnair, where the Potomac and the Anacostia merge, we lived just across the river for 2 years, and my heart had to put up with all the sounds those 2 years, we went to the Presidents Cup Regatta those 2 years, man what excitement, I had a friend that helped on MISS Madison, and in 62 there was a guy there with a Corvair powered boat, don't remember the class, but he really stomped butt, may have been there in 61 too. Thanks for bringing that up, I also went to the ones in Indiana often.

"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!

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