Does anyone remember this?

**The Big Al** · 11-24-2005, 11:13 AM

I found this surfing, anyone know the deal on this!

**Scott Gilmore** · 11-24-2005, 11:33 AM

I remember Sam Baker had that pic on his website a few years ago. I seems like it was Reggie Fountian & Earl Benz or somthing like that

! Scott

**jerry** · 11-24-2005, 11:33 AM

looks like more of them cat hulls . if anyone knows it would be t2x . hes old

**Alan Power** · 11-24-2005, 06:18 PM

I think I remember Gordie Miller having something to say about that pic in the history section.

**Dave S** · 11-24-2005, 07:50 PM

2 OMCs trying to show Merc how it's done.....

**Li'l Toy** · 11-27-2005, 12:30 AM

It's been too long, and I don't recall the boats involved. I was there, and I once had a front page picture from the Miami Herald, but it went by the wayside. Anyway, there was a three boat blowover right at the start of one of the big tunnel classes (Mod U?) at the '75 OPC Nationals at the Miami Marine Stadium. One boat lifted, they were running so close that he pulled the other two with him.

**Raceman** · 11-27-2005, 08:55 AM

Correct............. it was Miami Marine Stadium in 1975 at the APBA/OPC Nationals. I was sittin' in the grandstand and it happened right in front of me. Reggie, and I can't remember who else. I've still go the next morning's newspaper article somewhere showing that picture. There were several others snapped in the sequence also and I think they were posted here too.

It's been posted and described here several times in the past. Some kinda' search would probably turn up all the details.

Billy Seebold and Haustein (spelling?) did a similar "one goes and sucks the other over too" side by side at Eufala at the OPC nationals there several years later but I've never seen published pictures. I was standin' on the beach right in front of that one too.

**99fxst99** · 01-06-2006, 01:27 AM

Big Al, I remember it well. Raceman, you must have been sitting near me as I was near where the photo was taken from. It was Reggie Fountain, Harry Kerslake, and Danny Piggott. Miraculously no one was hurt. This shot is actually from a series caught with a motor drive 35mm. Reggie has the sequence in his office. It made all the papers the next morning, like the Allison-Yarborough fight at Daytona. A friend also caught it on 8mm home movie film. Reggie had a TV station copy it for him.

**The Big Al** · 01-06-2006, 01:33 AM

Was this the boat accedent that made reggie quit outboard racing?

I did a serch engine on boat racing and this came up. So this had to be a big part of news and history for the boating world.

Kinda like the NASCAR wreck you just talked about.

Bad accidents and scandal bring news and press.

Al

**EASY MONEY** · 01-06-2006, 02:49 AM

Cool info since its part of raceing history.

**Ospreyproduction** · 01-06-2006, 03:42 PM

I remember it well......it was 1953, about 4pm....that was me and Half Fast in the air.....uhhhh.....and....I smashed into him......and...uhhhh....yeah....

**1BadAction** · 01-06-2006, 03:59 PM

this is a neat pic i found

**Ospreyproduction** · 01-06-2006, 04:02 PM

That was me and Foley...we were trying to put it on the trailer.

**Jeff_G** · 01-09-2006, 09:09 AM

99fxst99- do you know where a copy of that film is? Can you get a hold of it? I had what I thought was the only copy, lent it to a guy in West Virginia to put on video and he said he lost it! Don't care who has it or if there are more than one copy, just want a copy.
I was the last President of the South Florida Outboard Club before we joined with the Florida Inboard Racing Club the last few years of their existance.
Thanks, Jeff Grigg