Old School Racing in 60's
05-05-2013 | 03:35 PM
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05-05-2013 | 07:37 PM
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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.
05-06-2013 | 02:31 PM
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Some Pretty long race.
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Jim
06-03-2013 | 07:10 PM
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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.
06-03-2013 | 09:41 PM
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