Impulse VI
Sam Brown
Sanger hull 
 
 

Ken Baker
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.
 
 

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
 
 
 

 El Tigre
owned and driven by Tom Weeda
a single engine, twin propeller, top fuel hydro
 

All images of drag boats, both hydroplanes & flatbottoms from 1964-1966. 
All photographs were taken by me at 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 images were scanned from 35 mm slides.

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