Category: Boats

Now here’s an interesting Gold Cup boat that has been stored for 50 years & recently acquired by Mike Michaud. Powered by a Ranger 12 cylinder air cooled airplane motor. We put a page together. Read more about this unique boat here.

First test run of Miss U.S. at the Pepsi Racing Power Cup Challenge in South Dakota on June 16, 2012. Built in 1958, the Lauterbach Unlimited hydro has been fully restored by owner Jay Armstrong. The video shows the pre-race drivers meeting, the launching of Miss U.S., the initial test …

saw this pic of the motor being installed in Miss Canada IV. _________________________________________________ ……and those Californians have Scrappy looking like a new boat.

Guido also sent me a neat pic of him and his Molinari-A.R. 1966 running on Lake Como:

Photo courtesy of Larry Jennings

This is a photo of my father’s first F-service runabout VIOLATOR M-5. It was a modified 1947 Chris Craft racing runabout with a 392 Hemi and a V-drive. It raced in Buffalo, NY, St. Petersburg and Miami, FL in the early fifties. If you have any photos of this boat, …

Buccaneer E-101 – Picton, Ontario 1979 Buccaneer E-101 – Tonawanda, New York One of Ron Jones best boats ever. Winning more races then just about any boat ever built by him. Brent Franklin

Editor’s Note – for some reason I had these pics and no info to go with them, but I thought worth publishing. Reply if you have any info to add.

Merlyn Culver, famous Yankee Doodle owner/driver, in his Lauterbach that he got in trade and put a Mercury outboard on. The hydro started out life as a 266 cubic inch class with a flathead Ford. You can see where the exhaust holes were patched up. When Merlyn got it, he …