Don Aronow on ESPN 30 for 30..........
 

When does it air?

Its a short one, just on the web....

That was great!

That was great!

Great show.

Really cool

Watched it all, really cool vid.

Anyone notice that Micky Munday "Boat Racer" was the same guy that flew the planes for all the drug shipments in Cocaine Cowboys?

Yeah, same guy. I'll bet we could sit at a bar with that guy for many nights and he would never run out of stories to tell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Munday

Yup!

Very interesting, and I remember all of it vividly unfolding here in S Fla.

Another well done documentary by Billy Corben.

When is it on next

Hey Lucky Strike, how about posting that pic of Don driving your 28 Cigarette? Really enjoyed that little story.

Great clip..thanks for posting

I'll look... It's on OSO somewhere.
I lived in the same small town with him & his family in NJ when I grew up.

Nice...

So we've seen Joey Ippolito, who was a friend and competitor of Don's (competing in boats and with women) on camera saying in Thunder Man, who is responsible for Don's death. This was two weeks before the ailing Joey Ippolito died. He had no reason to lie.

You have to call BS on how innocent the suspects are on the 30 for 30 segment. I believe Joey.

I am not sure if they aired it on TV? Looks like only that link so far.

who did joey say did it?

Bk
 

The guy who plead to the crime.

Cool doc

Awesome post

Am I missing something? I don't see the video... Can someone post a direct link to the video?

Thanks Chad

I found it!! Lol

That's the first time I have ever seen video of my dad's boat on fire (2 min mark)....

Tell the story behind these pics Lucky.


http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...tml#post795333
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...tml#post795334

I enjoyed the 30 on 30 piece. Would have liked a longer more detailed story. I really like biography channel "Los Muchachos" episode, documenting Willy and Sal. Seeing some of the clips in these shows, really shows the difference in the popularity of offshore racing between then and now.

It was the day before the Hennessy Gran Prix. I pulled into Kings Grant Inn with my 28 Cig. That was race headquarters.
Cruising in to the docks Don was standing on the deck of a 46 or 58' Bertram Sportfish with his chick Missy.
I saw him and pulled next to the bow of the Bertam and looked up, WAY UP at him and said ,hey Don want to go for a ride?
He leaped down from the bow of the boat onto my deck.( It was a long drop) Landed on his feet &,climbed over the windshield
Took the wheel and up the Manasquan river wide open we ran chasing his friend Doc Magoon in Docs 39 Cig raceboat
He said don't worry if it blows I'll buy you a new engine
The man had no fear of anything!

Thanks Lucky Strike. Great story, with pics too! I really enjoyed that.

OCB, Thats what the Investigating Detectives concluded also. Damn shame killing Don over money.

Great story :)

This is a great, refreshing, thread. It is very interesting to hear the history and stories from the past. We have many great boat manufactures and the engineering that goes into what we have today. What would have Don Aronow, accomplished from then to now and would the offshore racing, still be the big water racing of the past?
I grew up in the north east of Ohio, and had never seen an offshore power boat, only your family lake boats. This sport was only known to me by Miami Vice, at that point I was hooked and at that time if you said ; Don Aronow, I would have said; WHO? I might have been moving to Florida, looking for a job. L.O.L
Stories to be told; finishing a race bruised, pissing blood, sore muscles. Repairing the hull from cracked stringers and fiberglass and needing a navigator, to find your way around the course.
Would "Thunder Boat Row " still be there today if Aronow, were still alive or would he have been forced to sell to the development market of South Florida.


Would love to hear more.

Very interesting, great story....to bad his life ended this way, but then again if it ended in a boat crash would we still be bringing up his storied life after all these years. Don lives on.....

I have to admit, I have a major fascination with the history and the "lifestyle" of Don Aronow and the people involved in boatbuilding/racing/drug running from the 80s in Miami. I'm a HUGE fan of Miami Vice ever since I was a kid and I have read all of the books about Don Aronow and Thunder Boat Row. I love to read stories about Don and his companies as well as Apache and the rest of the "big boys" of the era. I remember reading about Tom Gentry way back when and his turbo engines. I always dreamed of living that lifestyle! The lifestyle portrayed in Miami Vice was very glamorous!

If someone tried to make a TV series that Glamorised that lifestyle these days, all the "do good" freaks would have it pulled off the air before they finished the pilot... I too was (and still am) a huge Miami Vice fan.

Great video, thanks for the link