Ginger 'B' too Dick Sooy built his first cabover (a 136 cu in hydro) for Arnold Boyance of Long Island, New York. The 2nd cabover (280 cu in hydro) was built in the winter of 1955 and became Dick Sooy's personal boat that he campaigned and won all kinds of trophys with it. Dick Sooy re-built that boat in 1994-95 and Forrest & Susan (Sooy) Elkins currently campaign that boat on the vintage circuit. Another great photo of this boat in later years is posted in Susan's photo album on the website.	Joe Gimbrone going through the valves on his homemade 7 litre Joy-Boy in 1975. Joe was a very highly-respected person as both a builder and driver.	The Agitator E-70 Maiden Voyage - Tastin' n Racin' 2009 "The first paint job came out wrong, and so we painted it over on Wed. prior to the event.  So somethings in this sport just don't change... thrash up until the last minute. Interesting enough we started out (my band of guys) rebuilding this boat for Doug Whitley, we ended up buying it (just a few weeks ago prior to it running). It came out great -some teething problems with erratic oil pressure readings but it ran a couple times just fine and then we parked it for display for Sunday. Doug did get to take it out for the first time. We did have 71 boats total with 10 vintage and 2 unlimited vintage I'm the race director at this event and we are trying push the vintage - and so the numbers are growing.  I invited a bunch of the past drivers, names like Donnie Benson, Bruce McDonald, Freddy Wright..., on and on. Got'em all into the event and got 'em a pit pass. Don Kelson and some of the guys had a little pot-luck BBQ Sat. afternoon. And on Sunday Don took out the newly rebuilt E12 SunUp of Steve Kramer's for a ride.  He had a blast.  I overheard one of the guys saying "I think I know where my old boat is..."! Music to our ears.........Jon Courtright - Seattle, Washington
1970 Nationals Ypsilanti, Michigan Among the 225 & 266 class hydros in the pits is Bill Hodge in the black & orange Boom Boom.	Loren 'Penny' Pennington of Santa Monica, California started racing around 1946 in the E Racing Runabout class where he revolutionized the class with Copperhead 10-E built by Bill Campbell of Long Beach, CA. That boat was driven by Pennington at 70.245 mph to set an ERR 1-Mile straightaway record in 1947 breaking the old record by almost 12 mph with just a Mercury 245 cubic inch motor. In the spring of 1948, he set a new E Racing Runabout course record on Lake Hollingsworth at 61.058 mph. For the 1949 racing season, Pennington designed an inboard hydroplane, Copperhead II 2-N built by the infamous, Joe Guess, and was nicknamed "Banjo Job" because of it's unique shape. A modified Ford Six was laid on it's side to keep the center of gravity down in this 255 Div II hydro. He came close to many speed records. In the spring of 1949, 'Penny' installed a Mercury and changed to the 225 Div. I class and racked up two more speed records.Click here to read an article written in Speed & Spray 1955 on Pennington and his hull designs and racing career.	Sherman Polhamus and Tiger N-72 are reunited after 31 years in the summer of 2008 in Celina, Ohio. Click here to read more on Sherman's racing career biography and see more photos from this event.

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