New Martinville, West Virginia

A beautiful, original 1953 Lauterbach owned by Mike Steffick on display in front of the courthouse in downtown New Martinsville, West Virgina. To everyone's knowledge, this is the oldest Lauterbach still in existence. Apparently it has only been run once and still has the original flathead V-8 Mercury motor with four carburetors. Also on display at this race at New Martinsville, was Dan Joseph's Little Fission, a conventional 145 we saw at Clayton last year.

Madison, Indiana

Joe Johnson's 225 cu in Close Shave. The boat is almost done and was in the parade and on display at the races in Madison, Indiana. It sports a 6 cylinder flathead Ford engine. It was displayed up on the road above the pits, and was seen by thousands of race fans.

 
Detroit, Michigan

Hal LeDuc's Hallet 266 cu in hydro Opechee.
	Bill Winn's Lauterbach 7 Litre Heavy Duty and Bill Fisk's Lauterbach GP Irishman.
Carl Wilson's Lauterbach 225 cu in Tiger and Sylvain Demers Lauterbach 266 cu in Zoomerang.
	Gary Cotter's 280 cu in hydro Miss Bonnie. This hull was built recently from Champion plans that used to be available from the Clark-Craft catalog in the 50's & 60's.
Bill John's Obsession sporting the new stepped bottom
There were 13 vintage boats on display and 12 of them ran in exhibition in front of the large crowd attending the Gold Cup.

The Judge

This is a photo of the Farmer hull, The Judge that was on the Message Board. It is the one that Jack & I went out and looked over. The owner Chris Brady, has sold it to Dan Joseph out of Wheeling, West Virginia.

Photos and Text by Phil Kunz.

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