Originally Posted By: redhook
its too bad the boats arent around anymore, i got to go to a couple at Moses Lake where my dads friend raced his Top Alchohol Hydro named "Royal Flush"... 547 blown Alchy Chev on the water sure makes a nice noise:)


A friend used to be real competitive drag boat racer.
He ran a number of Alky hydros and even got a Lucas Oil ride in the Nitro class.
He told me that Nitro & water is flat out scary.
Where the alcohol boat was topped out, the Nitro burning monster was just getting started.

He got airborne and splintered his boat at the red Bluff California event then retired.

Here's my kid sitting in one of his capsuled missiles a number of years ago...





I played around with Hot Rods a bit having a '74 Z-28 Camaro with a blown small block.
It was fun but too expensive for this workin stiff.
I always found the dollars to adrenaline ratio to be much better with motorcycles.
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