Hobo II
This may be Joe Graffio

 Hobo II

 How ‘bout That
Howard Custom Boat owned/driven by Howard Brown. 
Blown fuel Chrysler
NDBA Blown Fuel Flat record holder at 137.82 mph.  How ‘bout that?

How ‘bout That

How ‘bout That

Miss Sled
Dewey Etchison owner/driver
145.86 mph. D&H Sled hull with a blown fuel Chrysler

Miss Sled

 Adios two
Buzz Burns and Fag Campoy
Sanger hull with two fuel injected 327 Chevys. 
NDBA Unblown Fuel record holder at 134.43 mph
 

Hot Tomatoe
Blown fuel Chrysler - De Silva hull
Yes, that is the way Eddie Weinberg spelled tomato. 
This outfit ran on nitro methane and Eddie usually poured in the whole can “lid label and all”

Witch
Designed by Roberta Nichols. Built by De Silva. Owned by Roberta & Jack Nichols. Driven by Jack Siebuhr.
This outfit started life with a 421 Pontiac with Mickey Thompson heads.


 
Witch

 Kelli Dodge
 
 

Lil Ski Mer
Bob Garner’s Blown Gas Chrysler powered Miller hull. 
NDBA record  holder at 104.00 mph. That Chrysler is 454 cubic inches by the way.


Lil Ski Mer 
 

Blu Mist II
C. R. Johnson’s very quick flat bottom
 
 

Highbinder
Gary Colledge
Miller Custom hull running in blown fuel flat


Impulse VI
Sam Brown Sanger hull

Impulse VI

Ken Baker and his Ron Jones outboard drag hydro
Would you believe 100.55 mph in the quarter mile?  On gasoline?  Believe it!

 

Banzai
Barry McCown Blown fuel Hallet hydro hull. Made many passes over 150 mph.
Set the NDBA record at 161 and change. Engine builder - Bobby Sykes, Sr. worked for Keith Black & built the engines for Banzai.

Banzai

Banzai

Woodpecker
Ralph Dubois D&H Sled hull with a blown gas Chrysler.

Mixed Emotions
Ted and Vi Phillips D&H Sled hull with a blown Gas Chrysler
NDBA Blown Gas Step hull record holder at 130.52 mph

Slingshot
Jim Ramsey Blown fuel flat with a Sanger hull and a supercharged Chrysler.

Mr T
Buck Smith hull owned by Bob Thomas.
This outfit was a double record holder in NDBA 109.48 mph in Unblown Fuel Flat and 105.14 mph in Unblown Gas Flat

Miss Spico
Ted Jones design. Owned by Buck Smith & driven by Larry Swabenland.

     

Assassin
 Jean Jennewein Blown fuel hydro, Sanger hull, Chrysler engine NDBA record holder at 165.44 mph
Banzai (on right) friendly rivals in Blown Fuel Hydro

Assassin

 
El Tigre

El Tigre

El Tigre

Witch
De Silva hull    

Windjammer
Bob Valenzuela Blown Gas Hydro, Hallett hull

Hot Toddy’s Ghost
Larry Schwabenland driver - Roger Pillow driver
Buck Smith hull

 
Stranger
Ken Ruffner Blown gas Chrysler powered Sanger hull

Mortician
Buzz Coats Stevens hull with two injected Chevys on fuel. Restored recently by Spike Morelli

 
Avenger 99-F
Hey, what’s that circle boat doing at Ski-Land? One of Bud Meyer’s 266 cubic inch hydros.
Harlan Orrin designed, built and drove the boat as a 150 with a Bud Meyers Chevy Nova engine, then as a 266 with a sbc., then at the drags with a injected gas 327.
After Bud Meyer and Harlan split partnership, he formed a partnership with Pete Altman & Wayne Rexwinkle.
At the first meet at Long Beach Marine Stadium, Harlan set the APBA UGH record  @ 107.14 as 99-F  HOMEWRECKER.
breaking the APBA UNBLOWN GAS, HYDRO, AUTO ENGINE, DRAG record at the  Long Beach Marine Stadium, on July 18, 1965. Also, NDBA 100 mph club. We ran for several years undefeated.
Harlan Orrin

Citation II
Owner - Driver Rene Andre Maddox with his foot firmly planted on the loud pedal, feeding fuel to the Dave Zeuschel engine.  Thanks to Weston Edd Mathews and Rene Alpi for identifying. 
The original Citation flipped and disintegrated on its first trip thru the liquid quarter mile, in 1965.  Its replacement, Citation II, set a quarter mile top end speed record of 170.62 mph on its first pass, in April 1966. 
Not a fluke, this rig was for real, and turned a 170.76 pass at Ski Land in (May 1966?).  Raised its own record to 172.90 in July, 1966. 
Destroyed in August 1966 at Oroville.  The November 1966 issue of Hot Boat has a spectacular B&W flip photo showing the hull disintegrating and Rene Andre Maddox bouncing across the lake... this was before chute jackets boys and girls.

 
007 Panic Mouse
Ray Casselli

whoever he is....he turned a fast quarter mile. 
 

 All images of drag boats, both hydroplanes & flatbottoms from 1964-1966. 
Ski-Land near Perris, California which is near Riverside & March Air Force Base. 
It was built as a pay to water ski place and turned out to be a good drag boat venue. 
All photographs were taken by me and were scanned from 35 mm slides.

Thanks for visiting © 2005 Bob Foley  

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