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**willabee** · 09-02-2010, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

May ?, 1968, Key West, Florida: Two months after the 9 Hour Enduro, I was experiencing my own--- 'not a good day'. Thanks to 'Olegator' (Just kidding, Jim).
Why is a wng so hard to get back on the trailer, after it flips?-----

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So what's the story behind that pic? I didn't know you ever dumped one of those and how did Olegator contribute to this?

Saw some interesting things in the official 1968 Parker results. Some time back Mark75H had asked how the Dutchman Wings finished at Parker. All I could tell him was that they didn't run all that well and that I thought they had dropped out early. The listing shows Schoonover finished 20th completeing 40 laps. Using the winners 52 laps completed in 9 hours, that says that Schoonover dropped out sometime in the 6th hour.

Gene, I had asked you whether the #804 Wing (upside down on trailer) was the Lake X boat or maybe John DiPietra. The results show DiPietra finished 55th and I believe the #804 was lost before the race, so it must be the Lake X Wing.

Lastly, I did notice that you finished 6th overall, 3rd outboard completeing 47 laps. Two laps behind Massey's Wing and on the same lap with Don Harper's Raysoncraft, the same boat that won Havasu a few months earlier.....a very good run

The top five finishing outboards.....

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-02-2010, 01:11 PM

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Lastly, I did notice that you finished 6th overall, 3rd outboard completeing 47 laps. Two laps behind Massey's Wing and on the same lap with Don Harper's Raysoncraft, the same boat that won Havasu a few months earlier.....a very good run

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Should of made more than 47 laps, could have won!!! Sirois and I planned 2 fuel stops, me driving the first 3 and the last 3 hours. At about 5 hours, Bill driving, some one told me he had been towed into a dock about 3 miles up river. I jumped in Old Blue. Bill said it was the battery, I pulled the battery out of the pickup, put it in the wing, both engines fired, (good starters!) and he was on his way! I still don't remember how I got Old Blue back to the pits, without a battey----
But everyone knows how easy it is to win Parker: Go real fast, have good fuel stops, and don't have ANY problems----

**seeroy** · 09-02-2010, 01:32 PM

Gene - It must be a nice day in Colorado. You got up and got on-line early and you are still going? How come Lonnie got the credit, but you and Bill did the driving?

**willabee** · 09-02-2010, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

.....Should of made more than 47 laps, could have won!!!

Spoken like a true Racer.....the infamous "I would have won, but....."

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-02-2010, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by seeroy

Gene - It must be a nice day in Colorado. You got up and got on-line early and you are still going? How come Lonnie got the credit, but you and Bill did the driving?

Lonnie was the owner, and he entered the boat-----in his name. Lonnie and Bob Donahue were racing the offshore boat that day in Miami.
Always a nice day in Colorado. Here's a pic of 'Old Blue' on another nice day---40+ years later---cutting a Christmas tree.

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**willabee** · 09-02-2010, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

Lonnie was the owner, and he entered the boat-----in his name. Lonnie and Bob Donahue were racing the offshore boat that day in Miami.
Always a nice day in Colorado. Here's a pic of 'Old Blue' on another nice day---40+ years later---cutting a Christmas tree.

Truck looks the same.....Didn't Donahue own a restaurant between Miami and Lauderdale?

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-02-2010, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by willabee

Didn't Donahue own a restaurant between Miami and Lauderdale?

Yeah, and I think it was called 'Donahues'. You could find Billy Don there lots of nights, and there was a huge picture of his triple Jones behind the bar And Lonnie Todd was the bartender!!!

**seeroy** · 09-02-2010, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

Lonnie was the owner, and he entered the boat-----in his name. Lonnie and Bob Donahue were racing the offshore boat that day in Miami.
Always a nice day in Colorado. Here's a pic of 'Old Blue' on another nice day---40+ years later---cutting a Christmas tree.

Well, why don't you just drive "Old Blue" to OFF?

**seeroy** · 09-02-2010, 04:54 PM

Donahue was staying in the apartments that Vida owns in Miami Beach. She always gave him hell for using a space heater in his room. One night a year or so ago, he draped something over the heater and went to bed. Started a fire. Bob survived for a short while and then succumbed as result of smoke inhalation. His last words were, "Vida's gonna kill me". True Story. Bob was a WILD MAN! He served in the Army in Korea and nearly got blasted by a land mine. Shortly after that, his father died and left him $100,000 (that's early 1950s money). One year later he had spent every dime of it. He told me he was broke but he had a lot of friends and a lot of fun that year. He definitely lived on the wild side of life and paid for it on several occasions.

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-02-2010, 05:07 PM

[QUOTE=seeroy;2033320]". True Story. Bob was a WILD MAN!

Bob had a beautiful wife, Gloria, Passed away, Big C, Waaaay too young.

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-02-2010, 05:21 PM

[QUOTE=GENE LANHAM;2032898]May ?, 1968, Key West, Florida: Two months after the 9 Hour Enduro, I was experiencing my own--- 'not a good day'. [

Willabee, Seeroy: I am on a roll!! Lots of good stuff coming out of the 'closet'. I can't resist this one.

Sharing a 'good day': November ?, 1970, Key West, Florida: Yes, that is Freda, and George Thompson------

**seeroy** · 09-02-2010, 06:04 PM

Apparently George and Freda are invisible

**seeroy** · 09-02-2010, 07:20 PM

Sure! 1st go here

http://www.tinypic.com/

Click the "Chose File" button

select the photo from your computer that you want to post

Click on "Resize" and choose the size picture you want to post.
I like "15" screen"

Click "Upload Now" Button.
You will have to enter one of those funky codes that it gives you and wait a second or two. You will now see your picture on the right side.

Left click on the stuff in the "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards" box. When you do that, the background in that box will turn black. Now right click that stuff and select copy.

Now...Go back to the Forum thread and go "Go Advanced"
Place your cursor in the box.
Right click and select paste and then "Submit Reply"

If you succeed, you are smarter than Jackie, he never figured it out