{"id":1007,"date":"2015-02-15T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2015-02-15T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:25:05","slug":"1007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/1007\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424045120898_10750\" class=\"yiv0584302397MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/1007\/2015_bateau\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_bateau.jpg\" alt=\"Bateau\" width=\"947\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_bateau.jpg 947w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_bateau-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015_bateau-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a>Hello Vintage Hydroplanes website,<br \/>\nI just came across your site as I was looking up information on older hydroplanes. My father (R\u00e9al Lavoie) had one for a couple of years and my sister in law just scanned this old pic of him with his boat, dating from 1968. We lived in Laval, QC, Canada and we would go the various regattas in the province (Valleyfield, St Felicien, Bauharnois, Pointe aux Trembles, etc).<br \/>\nThe fashionable thing at the time was to name your boat \u201cMiss (city name)\u201d so ours was the Miss Laval, #41 with a Chevy 280 cu in engine, so he raced in the 280 class. I was 10 years old at the time but I have many memories of that boat and the races. There was a driver with the family name \u201cLeboeuf\u201d that would often win at that time\u2026 \u00a0Just seeing your site brings back many more!<br \/>\nThis is the only photo I have at this time.<br \/>\nThanks!<br \/>\nGuy Lavoie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Vintage Hydroplanes website, I just came across your site as I was looking up information on older hydroplanes. My father (R\u00e9al Lavoie) had one for a couple of years and my sister in law just scanned this old pic of him with his boat, dating from 1968. We lived &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}