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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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.
Barefoot on the Trail of 80mph Title of Tom Skelly with Les Ramsey & Cheeta 'Tony McNaughton Scrapbooks' from 1970's' Bendigo VIC
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 (more than likely stating a few four letter words 🙂

Above video is of Hydroplane ‘Vulture’, John Lewis, his wife Joy, two of his daughters and a glimpse of his brother Geoff Lewis with his Speedboat ‘Ramrod’. Also there are other boats plus ‘Miss Bud’ in great close up action.

Aggressor being towed by Patsy-Ann - photo Nigel Lovell
Aggressor - photo Nigel Lovell
Aggressor - photo Graeme Morley

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

Rud Lindley’s Formular 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.
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
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