Photos from a Moment
from 2011
All these photos were featured on the home page during 2011.
Click on photo to see a larger image as it appeared on the cover.

Justa-Pest II N-56
Danny Walls, Sr.
We recently lost this great Champion driver, seen here piloting Gene Benning's 225 class hydro in the early 1970s. 
The couple of times I spoke to Dan in the last few years, I really enjoyed listening to him talk about this boat and the accomplishments he and my Dad made. 
Bill Benning.

While driving many boats in the Y, S & H classes, Bellevue, Kentucky's Danny Walls was most successful in the N class where he won 3 straight USA National Championships, 1969-70-71. Later, Dannny spent 2 years driving in the unlimited class.  Walls was still active in inboard hydroplane racing with his son Danny, Jr. driving.
Eastern Divisionals Raleigh, NC 1988
Start of a qualifying heat race
  •  E-14 Warhawk (Dea and Wally) highly modified Sooy hull (wood cabover) Chevy 305
  • E-60 Fast Company (Steve David) Karleson wood hull (with shoes and possibly a Ford 302)
  • E-726 X-Ray (Mark Burkhardt) Staudacher wood & narrow hull, Chevy
  • E-5 Jezabell (Spellman Pellerin - driver | Jim Ranson - owner) Kelson hull (with a built in shoe on the shaft log), Chevy 305
  • E-30 Budget Buster Racing (Ray Lynn) - homebrew conventional/cabover. Possibly Plymouth but more than likely a Chevy

    • Note the group of diverse boats, drivers, builders, motors and a good ole' flying start. A testament to what many would call real APBA racing.
    So What 30-F
    Owner unknown - but two very famous drivers drove it back then in the early 1940's.....Kenny Ingram and Bud Meyers. 
    Salton Sea 1941?
    photo taken by James H. Drewry

    Jade Dragon F-888
    Larry & Henry Lauterbach @ Hampton 1967
    photo from Gary Todd collection
    The resurrection of this boat can be seenin the boats section by clicking on Jade Dragon.
    "Miss Budweiser" used in the movie Madison. 
    The photo taken at the 2001 Buffalo Antique & Classic Boat Show on Grand Island, NY. The boat was owned by Bob Schroeder and he had my Father (Robert Hackett) as a riding mechanic. This was the last time Bob & Bob rode together. I received my ride directly after and the boat was sold. I will never forget the things my Dad did for me and this was the best memory of him I have. Bob Hackett
    The new N class (225 Division II)
    N-11 Headache - Ed Cannady
    N-5  Worry Wart - Marion Cooper
    N-30 Frantic - Nobel Lanier
    N-21 Shirley Ann - Harold Lynch
    Note - only one driver (Marion Cooper) was wearing a helmet. Photo was taken in Cincinnati in 1946.

    ARCADIAN 169-F
    Built by Marcel Belleville originally - a French-Canadian designer & builder. Marcel built several boats with the principle that it was an Inboard, but based on an Outboard . Overall length is 19' 4". Jim Dernoncourt & Rob Kaufman teamed up to make this restoration happen.
    Victory Babe Carl Goetz
    Barracuda Ray Smith
    Kentucky Babe II Oliver Elam
    Newport, Kentucky 1955
    Calypso
    Fred Wickens was selling frame kits and we believe this boat to be one of them. Photo 'borrowed' from a posting on the Jalopy Journal's H.A.M.B (Hokey Ass Message Board). Racing history unknown, if any.

     
     
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