Old School Racing in 60's
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kALNooZRYfM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZvS...1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_q7oyMK-s

MY GOD...that's awesome!!

We owe our sport to those guys...great post!!!:evilb:

That one boat in the second vid with the guy on that little jockey seat hanging off the back of the boat!!!!
Wtf???? Who's idea was that?& why ????
Crazy!

For sure. What's with the two steering wheels too? Not to mention how about the turbine powered boat with no bolsters....they raced it standing!....tough guys for sure.

I believe that the boats had to be a mimimum length and that was the only way to meet the length requirement. pretty wild

Some Pretty long race.
Thank you
Jim

Some additional trivia about video clip #2 -- Bill Cooper was the driver and Darryl Jenkins was the "co-pilot" in the rumble seat of the "Spooky" boat -- 440 miles all 'uphill' from Long Beach to San Francisco, an incredible grind. The #148 "Invader" boat was owned and driven by Phil Caricoff from Costa Mesa, CA. The #43 "Zippe" boat was a 32 Bertram owned and driven by Maury Fortney, also from Costa Mesa/Newport, CA. Zippe was the brand name of his frozen Mexican food company (he called it the fastest tamale in the west). Fortney's head mechanic and riding crew member was Danny Oaks, one of the top midget car racers in the country. The Zippe was the first 'big' boat (over 30') to win the Catalina Ski Race in 1970 pulling Mike Kennedy to the overall win over the 62 mile course. Zippe was later sold to Paul and Betty Cook -- the Cook's originally converted it into a POPBRA high speed rescue boat for the races, but Betty eventually was talked into entering a local Long Beach POPBRA race with it a few years later -- famed offshore racer Don Pruett was her throttle person on that adventure -- Betty finished dead last in the race, and that never happened again.

My boat is at 8:50 in the first vid.

Holy hell! Looked like a lazy boy strapped to some rerod! Haha

Awesome videos! Thanks for sharing!

What a cool boat! Do you know what was the top end of super nova back then? What power was in it?

Can you imagine how cold you would be after 400 miles of cold sea water on a constant spray!!

Twin Ford 427 side oilers with blowers to a single V-Drive / single prop. Not sure of speed but best guess is mid 60's to low 70's. Still has the same set up all the way up to the original driveshafts today. The only change is the motors are now mildly build 454's. Oh, and it also has transmissions instead of crashboxes. The original motors (I say "original" but there was many different motors run in the boat) are junk and are still with the past owner. I couldn't afford them when I bought the boat. Even today with the boat restored like it is the old motors in pieces are still worth more then the boat. I hope one day he will just want them gone but until then I'll stick with the 454's cause they are so easy in every way.

http://www.supernova19.com/108818000.jpg

Not only did it have a seat OVER the prop, it had a beak! I wonder why fountain didn't copy the cockpit seating arrangement also???? LOl!

Those guys are crazy!

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A super nice boat!! Do you know why one prop on twins? Is it a space thing? Was the thought it would go faster on one wheel?

Exactley. One less prop, propshaft, struts and rudder to drag through the water. 3 to 4 mph faster then the twin version and when you are running 500 mile races that adds up.