{"id":2538,"date":"2018-02-23T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T03:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2018-02-23T21:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T03:15:36","slug":"miss-desoto-9-hour-enduance-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/miss-desoto-9-hour-enduance-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss DeSoto &#8211; 9 hour enduance race &#8211; 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1959_miss_desoto_9_hour_endurence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1959_miss_desoto_9_hour_endurence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1959_miss_desoto_9_hour_endurence.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1959_miss_desoto_9_hour_endurence-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1959_miss_desoto_9_hour_endurence-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1959_miss_desoto_9_hour_endurence-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a>Phil Kunz and I were discussing the <strong>Miss DeSoto<\/strong> boats (pic further down this page) and Phil mentioned he had a crazy photo that he got (from somewhere) showing when one of the iconic Miss Desoto hydros was put to the endurance test by racing in one of the 9 hour endurance races back-in-the-day. Thinking possibly the Miami to Bahamas and back, race?<br \/>\nNote the extra fuel tanks placed in front of the motor and behind the driver. Also looks like the Hemi is running, but with 6 carbs and not the Potvin supercharger it campaigned with for years<br \/>\nCan you imagine driving a hydro for 9 hours in the open water?<br \/>\nIf you have any info on this, please chime in&#8230;would be great to read some background on this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Kunz and I were discussing the Miss DeSoto boats (pic further down this page) and Phil mentioned he had a crazy photo that he got (from somewhere) showing when one of the iconic Miss Desoto hydros was put to the endurance test by racing in one of the 9 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","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\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}