Vintage Hydros May 2024

Firing up the Thunderboats at Stan Sayers Pits on Tues, May 14, 2024.

[@CouncilOfDort]

Turbines ruined hydro racing 😢

[@danielcarroll5667]

Just aint the same...

[@stephenmiller5023]

I’m an old fart now at 64 years of age & 40 plus years ago can still recall those monsters racing around & around Mission Bay here in San Diego California. When the show came to town we camped for 3 days out on Fiesta Island each year and had some awesome times with friends & family. Chuck Muncie in the “ Miss Budweiser” was THE Man Back then. There were unfortunately some pretty horrendous crashes sometimes when they would catch air underneath and flip way up in the air before crashing back down again. That was when racing in those took a REAL PAIR OF BALLS. Cool video here , thanks for posting 😎👍

[@jimgoff1170]

I grew up in the Seattle area in the 60’s, love seeing miss bardahl again.😊

[@ChrisMcCutcheon-wj2pp]

Yep, miss bardhal is the one I recall, I prob still can't spell it tho

[@powderriver2424]

Growing up off the Puget Sound, waiting for Seafair and the thunder boats racing on lake Washington and at the Tri Cities was the big events for us back in the 70's and 80's.

[@msgt81]

I can remember watching these boats on the Detroit river in the late 40s and thought they were awesome.

[@ChrisMcCutcheon-wj2pp]

If this sound wasn't heard all over the world, there would b no freedom, none!!!

[@Nuck-y8r]

Dad took me too lake washington as a kid, fondest memories of atlas and bud battleing. A great memory and upbringing, thans dad (rip).

[@chrisgrenzner9337]

I remember the race at Sand Point. Budweiser in the corners, Pay-n-Pak in the straights. What a heat!

[@vehdynam]

Thanks for that ! I grew up listening to these boats practice on the Detroit River , I love the sound.

[@BobbyTucker]

I used to go down to Belle Isle and watch the boats too, I loved it.

[@davidlyons8278]

Watching these bring back so many memories….i lived near the Niagara river growing up…. One year in the 70,s they raced there it was on wide world of sports…. It was so cool…..

[@robertkaspert4092]

Growing up in Detroit we would go to Belle Isle swimming and watch the practicing for the Gold Cup race. On the Detroit River it was awesome.

[@kurtmeyers3469]

I spent my youth on the Detroit River watching the Gold Cup races. Miss Madison, The Atles Van Lines boat, Miss Bud...

[@bryceonysko6479]

loved watching wide world of sports in60s &70S TKU 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@edog7059]

Hey Miss Wahoo! Come to Wahoo, Nebraska and show us your stuff in Lake Wanahoo!

[@4u2cJoeD]

in 69, I lived 1 door down in Santee Calf/ to U5EEEE, the finish in spired me all my life I was grade 3 at the time. so many valve cover nuts, the carb opening was bigger than my fist.

[@BobbyTucker]

Oh, you meant the velocity stacks? lol.

[@markstegeman5986]

I used to watch these guys race on the Detroit River it was great

[@gregorygaunt9353]

My aunt and uncle lived on Spanaway Lake and their dock was used for setting up the timing light for the finish line.

[@SpeedmasterSM]

Thank you for sharing magnificent machines, and thank you for recording video in landscape mode. Im alergic to portrait video

[@johnduff1510]

Dam sounds like a Merlin too.

[@gmarshall1026]

Love the v12

[@Bobfelli]

I remember when we lived in San Diego we were in the Pacific Beach area. We watched Miss Budwiser and Miss Bardahl duking it out on Mission Bay in the mid 1960's. One race Miss Budwiser got taken out by a beer can in the water. Beer ca s were made of steel back then.

[@larryfisher7056]

The Atomic Cup on the Columbia River in the 60s. When they came by close enough to see tne driver's face at 100 mph your whole body vibrated from the roar.

[@sparty94]

so cool, love those old boats. i didn't realize that some of them run with an open pontoon. not sure why, i'm going to do some reading.😁

[@LoganJohnson-lm2bh]

I was at the gold cup the year the miss Madison won the gold cup hear in Washington .Years later i was the semi driver that took the Miss Madison and the Miss Budweiser back to Madison to start the Filming of the movie Miss Madison .I still go to the Hydro plane museum here

[@bengone3349]

It's too bad this could have been a great video if the camera wasn't shaking all the time especially on the running boats far out on the water.

[@jamie_trigg]

Forgot to bring my monopod, sorry. Next time . . .

[@jeffcoomer8680]

Madison indiana on Ohio river were huge in the day.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

I saw the Bardahl P-51 at the Reno Air Races last year.

[@dale5898]

I had a friend from work who drove the super Salami Miss Oberto for a few years and quit after a turbine replaced the piston engine. He said he felt unsafe in the boat.

[@UncaDave]

Miss Madison too!

[@garymoore5005]

luv madison.

[@dale5898]

Yep 100%

[@johnduff1510]

Im not sure but it looks like some them had the Rolls Royce Merlin in them ,The same engine in the P51they look like it anyway

[@dukenukem7183]

That's what they are 👍

[@BobbyTucker]

Shouldn't he at least allow the oil to circulate first?

[@timlabell]

I always thought unlimited hydroplane boats were run with jet engines? I can't recall seeing a V8 or whatever that engine is . I also thought the names of the boats were MISS , something or other. I.e miss budwieser .🤷🏼‍♂️

[@BobbyTucker]

Did you ever see "Dipsy Doodle"? It might have been before your time.

[@timlabell]

@@BobbyTucker not for sure on that one. 66 old

[@matthewsmith5109]

New hydroplanes run turbine engines. These are vintage boats they run Merlin v12s same motor that's in p51 spitfire planes.

[@timlabell]

@@matthewsmith5109 thanks, pretty fun stuff

[@kurtmeyers3469]

Anybody remember a driver named Bobby Muncie? ( I think that's right)

[@wayneneher6362]

Wasn't the Squire Shop the ex-Atlas Van Lines?

[@frankorobinson1540]

Look in the sky😂😂😂i mean water it a airoboat😊these beast are true dinosaurs now but back in the late 40s 50 60s they had some powerful hydros ,then the put engines in the back of the boat and said damm these things are really fast niw😂😂😂

[@mitchyork527]

I think the cameraman‘s name is shaky

[@engineeringoyster6243]

Who was driving the Miss Bardahl?

[@jamie_trigg]

I'm not sure, sorry.

[@engineeringoyster6243]

@@jamie_trigg Several years ago it was owned by Dixon Smith and he regularly drove it

[@m4rvinmartian]

Shaky... cam. Redo, keying on subject. Crop the rest.

[@p.r.9219]

Over regulation of all types of boat racing has ruined the sport. Thank you APBA

[@Bruce-ot9yd]

Kids 😂 fighter plane engines ww2

[@larryfisher7056]

Chrysler Crew used two Hemi s coupled together.

[@billcampana4328]

TERRIBLE camera work!

[@dougfinley5151]

How about a tripod.