Speedboats of the 1970's

Stinga 1970's VSBC - Victorian Speed Boat Club
Stinga at Albert Park Lake
Frantic
VSBC - B.PEE

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Owner – driver Bert Braumann posed confidently in his boat Big Cat – and what a big cat it is, a 1200 h.p. super charged Chrysler, one of the many entries for the Griffith Cup a Lake Eppalock tomorrow.
He is receiving a helping hand from Mrs. Joy Lewis, whose husband is owner – driver of Vulture, second in last years Griffith Cup.

1971, ‘It’s a Big Cat Allright’, Bendigo Advertiser – Sat., 10 April, p., 2

Lucifer at Albert Park Lake - photo by A. Cunningham
Lucifer at Albert Park Lake 1970's - Photo by A Cunningham

Speed Boat Racing Examiners Specifications 1970’s

Australian Power Boat Association Records ~ 7th April 1973

Qantas Gold Cup & Majorie Watson VSBC Programme ~ 1977

Whoops - Driver/Owner Anthony Oates Junior Class (the youngest speed boat racer in the VSBC) 8ft hydroplane with a Triumph single motor.
Go Man Go (Formula Ford) Owner / Driver Anthony Oates - & Good Times in Speed Trials 'Article' 1978 donated by Dorothy Smallwoods.
V.S.B.C. Member Cloth Badge - this one has the gold, silver & red colours in glitter thread.
V.S.B.C. Iron On Badge: 1960 - 1970's
V.S.B.C. Hydro Tie Clip
V.S.B.C. Hydro, Runabout and Flag Tie Clips
V.S.B.C. Pit Steward Badge with number 008 on the back.
V.S.B.C. Blue and Gold Flags Cuff Links!!
V.S.B.C. Sticker with Sponsor BP Lake Eppalock and Albert Park Lake with Bill Barberton's 'Rascala'
V.S.B.C. Flag and Silver Boat Tie Clips.
1970 Griffith Cup Miss Bud Badge
VSBC Wimmera Cup Pit Pass
Barefoot on the Trail of 80mph Title of Tom Skelly with Les Ramsey & Cheeta 'Tony McNaughton Scrapbooks' from 1970's' Bendigo VIC
The Victorian Speed Boat Club Tower, Albert Park Lake with three Members - on left John Lewis
Albert Park Lake Tower with three members speaking to the crowd. On left John Lewis, does anyone else know the other people?
Tommy Watts Kimbolton Cup - Mystic Miss in bits.
Tommy Watts in Mystic Miss Gippsland Christmas 1969
Tommy Watts in Exciter with a Jet Engine
Exciter VH 04 - Victorian Speed Boat Club
Exciter Motor
Tommy Watts Exciter
Exciter
Tommy Watts standing on Exciter

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‘Puff the Magic Dragger’

Aggressor being towed by Patsy-Ann - photo Nigel Lovell
Aggressor - photo Nigel Lovell
Aggressor in the early days - photo Graeme Morley

Next; 'Tony McNaughton Scrapbooks' images from 1970's Bendigo VIC

Rud Lindley’s Formula Ford Lotus Bo-Weevil
*E. C. Griffith Cup 1975 Lake Eppalock (Jan 26th) Meet:
Handicap: 1, Frantic Too (Tom Barnes) 2, Super Roo (Leon Doyle) 3, Bat Outa Hell (Tom Szekeres)
Formula Ford Scratch: 1, Bo-Weevil (Rud Lindley) 2, Frantic Too.

Hobo Hydroplane ~ Mike Weller
B.Pee Ken Harris - Hull built by David Gill GILFLITE * B.Pee – one of the new breed of rear mount runabouts, owner Ken Harris operated the BP service station on Bell Street Preston and raced as a member of the MRSBC. Powered by a Chev Corvette with Duggan fuel injection, B Pee was a strong competitor in the 300 cu in class. *Written by Bob Carter from the Gilflite Racing Boat Page.
Shadrach, formerly Cheeta (Les Ramsy), couldn't repeat her Boxing Day perfprmance when she toppled the mighty hydro.
Suicide II - SL057
Tiger - owner, Dave Mitchell; driver, Ben Prajisz; winner, final open unlimited.
Tommy Watts with Exciter ~ David Mitchell's Tiger, driven by Ben Prajbisz (winner of the 'Prince Henry Hospital Cup') ~ Electra ~ Reg Sorensen and Dragin Lady ~ Hines ~ Strangler IV
Sirocco
Mary-Lou Victorian Speed Boat Club
Solo Scores at Yarrawonga - John Lewis' Vulture with new tri-fin - Modern Boating, February 1975, Page 71.
Turbo Fire by Reeson Marine

Following photos donated by Peter White

Front Page of The Sun Newspaper Melbourne for Moomba on Albert Park Lake - Peter White in his Formula Ford Speedboat 'Streaker'
Nesta with driver Bill Burl on Albert Park Lake V.S.B.C.
Miss Bud VS22 - Victorian Speed Boat Club
Miss Bud on front of Power Boat Magazine
Coombro with Russ & Alan Combes on Albert Park Lake
From New Zealand Voodoo IV
Holley and Les Spears
Bill Davis with his Formula Ford Speedboat Action
Assassin looking rather pink
Frantic Too with driver Peter White
Black Knight with Pat Hawthorne member of the V.S.B.C
Miss Bud VS22 - Victorian Speed Boat Club
Snoopy VS65 with driver Ron Hull
Snoopy and driver Ron Hull and Hullabaloo driver Bob Wilmot at Lake Eppalock for a V.S.B.C. Meet
A young Peter White racing on Albert Park Lake, Melbourne, Australia. Member of the Victorian Speed Boat Club. Competing in the Formular Ford Class
Streaker and driver/owner Peter White V.S.B.C.
Redline and Peter Wade
Syndicate with a great crowd on a hot day
Huge crowd watching Stampede with the BP Clock Tower in back ground.
Frantic Too July 1975 - Tom Barnes
I asked Peter White why his boat was called Streaker? He replied "I painted her pink and it could go faster than a Streaker" lol

Carter, B. 1976, ‘Formula Ford,’ 1976 Griffith Cup Souvenir Program, p.12.

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