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This photo was taken on July 12,1978 and the owner/driver of the boat is Frank Rossitto. Frank bought it from Billy and you can see his name towards the back of the boat on top of Bob Latham's name...

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This is NOT Bill Elswick.

Here's the cover of Powerboat magazine after the 1982 race.

I was working for Howard Arneson when we won our first race in Saugatuck, Michigan on August 14, 1982. I didn't take many pictures, but I know a lot of the people who were there. We stayed at "The...

Brownie,

Here a few shots of Bobby. I hope these photos help you.

John

Photo #1 of the blue Seahawk boat is Sal, Jay, and Armondo.

No, she's in DC screwing up the rest of the country!

I used to see Bill every morning at the 7-11 in Point Pleasant Beach where we'd both get our coffee and newspaper and talk about racing...and his Z-28 "Bear Cat." He was a great guy and a true...

I think Charlie nailed it. I became friends with Jack's son Michael from being at all the races(we were close in age) but, haven't seen or heard from him in years.

I was with Dave at the SBI event in New York, last September. He has more fun with his friends on his Cigarette than he does racing the Jaguar at a fraction of the price. It's several thousand...

Yes, the Rolling Thunder Jaguar was Special Edition.

I saw Toshiba at Arnold's Yacht Basin, Point Pleasant, NJ along with the Rolling Thunder Jaguar.

$27,000 was a very good price for that Cigarette, but the average income in 1976 was only $16.000 and the average price of a house was $43,000.

El Boss was an amazing boat, often running as fast as or faster than the Open Class 1 boats. Willie Diaz had no fear in any water.

OK. I only saw the #75 car. It had RG engines similar to the ones that Harold prepared for Long Shot.

John

Bill's NASCAR number was 75 not 57.

I believe that Special Edition is now Rolling Thunder.

John

The guy in the Needle Nose pictures looks just like the guy I had lunch with yesterday.

Hey Phil,
How about we meet for lunch tomorrow...in Miami with Bobby! We probably couldn't get down there at this point anyway. Get your shovel ready. We'll hook up after the snow passes.
John

Still rusting there.

John

Charlie,

I believe that Keith and Jerry won the 1981 World Championship in Ajac Hawk. He also won the World Championship as throttleman for Tony Garcia in 1983 in the Arneson Special, Eddie...

Gentlemen,

Here are two photos of the Arneson boat. One is from early on with the large air scoops when Terry Laughlin was the throttleman and the other after Sammy James worked with Steve and...

Guys,

Here it is.

John

If you can see land...you ain't racin' offshore!

The Benihana Grand Prix in the late '70's and early '80's was 208 miles for Open Class 1.