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Casey
12-07-2002, 03:32 PM
does any body have a pic or know anything about a 50's or early 60's swift super bee hydro. A or B class. thanks

David_L6
12-07-2002, 10:26 PM
First hydro I ever drove was a Swift Big Bee. I don't know where any pics are on the 'net off hand.

The boats were the typical conventional hydros of the period with fabric covered front deck.

Mark75H
12-07-2002, 10:48 PM
I have a few pics of an "Atomic A" stored on my computer and some "Big B" photos, but I can't put my hands on them quicky.

Mark75H
12-07-2002, 10:53 PM
a very old A from eBay

long low front cowl

Casey
12-07-2002, 11:01 PM
my dad used to race one back in the late 50's and i just wanted to see what one looked like. any more pics?

Mark75H
12-07-2002, 11:19 PM
Swift made more hydros than anyone else ever did. Over 5,000 in the late 50's/early 60's. There were faster hydros, but they were made by smaller shops like Neal and Sidcraft.

Swift's ad for the "Big D"

Ron Hill
12-09-2002, 09:32 PM
When my brother went into the Army in 1952, my dad bought a new Swift C-D-f-X Swift for when my brother got out of the Army.

Later we got Jimmy Gordon to buy an A Swift... much later my brothe bought a Big Bee which I ran in A Outboard Hydro (Alky as it was called then). I crashed it BIG TIME at Long Beach and when we rebuilt it we lightened it up, added full length aluminum air traps and I ran it in A Stock for a year and won almost evey race...This Big Bee was considered too big for A, but it was a coming trend to larger lighter boats. Here is a picture from Speed and Spary 1953.

Ron Hill
12-09-2002, 09:35 PM
Here is the cover to Speed and Spray, September 1953, believe me or not, but the kid with the white tee shirt was me.

Ron Hill
12-09-2002, 10:15 PM
This is my brother, one of the few times he was out front in D Stock hydro. This was at Brawley, California, Aril 1956, at Lake Wiest.

This was his Swift hydro.

Ron Hill
12-11-2002, 12:40 AM
I just posed this picture under KG-4...but this is Dub Parker's Big Bee at lakeland, Florida...I think.. Home Kincaid is the one blowing over..