The hydros rolled snake eyes on a gambling man’s lake A wild windstorm beached the boats at the Lake Tahoe hydroplane championships, but the gamblers on the shore never felt a breeze. (Source: Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum) Billy Schumacher waits…
Ed Karelsen’s Round-Nose Unlimited Hulls (Source: Sandy Ross) Bill Sterett driving Bernie Little’s Miss Budweiser at the 1968 Atomic Cup. A year later he would win the APBA Gold Cup in this hull. By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The…
1968, The Checkerboard Comet and the “Year that Changed the World” By David D. Williams 2008 marks the 40th Anniversary of the tumultuous summer of 1968. To those of us that lived through it, it was a long hot summer…