Amazon...Pfff     Ebay..

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2505460.m570.l1313&_nkw=FORD+it+edition+emblem&_sacat=0

I think I would rather have that at Bonneville with 4 wheels under it. To me it would be safer, if there's any safety at all in it!!!

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Just imagine how super sketchy a 7200 HP boat is today, now imagine the lack of aero and hydrodynamics theory in 1932. 

Taste death - Live life!

 

Water is not for me unless you make beer out of it! I like being on dry land. But I know what you mean. 

1. Totally open throttle.

2. Go change shorts!

Cool T-shirts

Ha ha Frosty! Some good T-shirt designs!

On 1/5/2024 at 9:36 AM, Frosty said:

I was born in Algonac.  My Dad worked for Chris Craft there, before taking a job with Pontiac Motors and moving us to Pontiac. Gar wanted Dad to work for him.  I remember being at his shop.  But he took the PMD job.  Awesome pic.

 

Two moons !!!!

 

Snow is in the forecast this week....

22 minutes ago, JustAG6 said:

Snow is in the forecast this week....

wrongway was saying its snowing at his place !!! 

while i sit in my office doing invoices in 33C ...wish i was back in new york 

Edited January 8, 20242 yr by 64 kiwi boni

It was! If I want snow and cold id move back to Michigan! 

Ow, ow, ow!!

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They are looking for drivers. Now I see why!🤣🤣

 

Gotta love that Peanuts cartoon!!

That could take a case of beer to think that one!!

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On 1/6/2024 at 12:36 AM, Frosty said:

What a piece of machinery. Look at the open pipes. Earplugs anyone? I'd also hope to think that the copious amounts of exhaust gas flowed past those blokes and not straight up their nostrils. I also wonder how many pieces Miss America IX ended up as. Sensational pic. I'm now inspired to weld a coupla extra donks into the GP.

Gar Wood was only 5 feet 6 and never more than 130 pounds, but he had an extra-large appetite for speed and an imagination to match. He loved airplanes and boats, and his marriage of the two would make him the international king of the water in the 1920s and '30s. 

Wood thought otherwise, figuring that airplane motors had to be more dependable than boat motors, since there was little margin for engine failure in the air. So he bought a Curtiss "12" engine, rebuilt it, and put it into Miss Detroit III. It worked beautifully and won the 15th Gold Cup Race on the Detroit River. "We hardly ever had to work on it," Wood said.

Working on engines and boats was the joy of Wood's life. He designed many boats, each more powerful than the last. The hydraulic hoist, which helps a boat turn or back up, was the first of Wood's many inventions and patents which helped make him a multi-millionaire by the time he was 40. He was the first man to design a hull strong enough to handle multiple airplane motors and make world-record speeds while remaining maneuverable. 

While Wood was a consistent winner, he had occasional setbacks and near-disasters. In August 1928, his Miss America VI blew up on the St. Clair River. His mechanic, Orlin Johnson, was seriously hurt, but eventually recovered. Wood, who always drove his own boats, escaped injury. But he had no boat, and the next race on the Detroit River was in September. So he fished his motors out of 90 feet of water, and redesigned and built a new creation, Miss America VII, in just 14 days.

Perhaps Wood's greatest design feat was the Miss America X, called a "madman's dream" by engineers. Powered by four 1800-horsepower, 12-cylinder Packard engines, the big boat smashed the world record, becoming the first to do over 2 miles a minute: 124.915 mph. It's a speed that, 64 years later, remains a respectable time for the Gold Cup race on the Detroit River. In 1932, Wood had no trouble defeating Kaye Don in a rematch.

After his final successful defense with Miss America X in 1933, Wood retired from racing. A wealthy man, he and his wife had homes in Detroit, Algonac, Georgian Bay, Miami and Honolulu, and a son, Gar Wood Jr., to carry on the speedboat racing tradition. He kept up his friendships with members of the Detroit Yacht Club, which he loved, having become its commodore in 1921.

Wood died at age 90 in Miami in 1971, just a few days before a gigantic civic celebration in his honor was to have been held in Detroit, celebrating the 50th anniversary since his first Harmsworth victory. "If he'd announced at that time that he was going to take off for the moon, his faithful following would have believed him implicitly," wrote George Van for The Detroit News upon Wood's death. "To the public, he was Tom Swift, Jules Verne, Frank Merriwell with a little bit of Horatio Alger thrown in."

That’s a fantastic story justA 👍

Baby, it's cold outside!

 

Hi Frosty,

Yes my beer thinks of me! On the weekends I can hear it calling my name right after dinner. Sometimes even happens at 10 am! Funny thing is I can't hear the wife when it's calling! 

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1 hour ago, njacobsen said:

Hi Frosty,

Yes my beer thinks of me! On the weekends I can hear it calling my name right after dinner. Sometimes even happens at 10 am! Funny thing is I can't hear the wife when it's calling! 

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Dude, not hearing your wife at any given moment is congenital. We men are born with it. It's like the male gender's self-preservation mechanism, it's got nothing to do with beer, but beer helps.

I also agree - beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.