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The Pictorial Newsletter: April 20, 1960, 20 Apr 1960, Page 3

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\, TF TT3 SPEEE' YOU WANT -WE,LL EIVE TTTO YOU ,'.a,rrd A Iox tt ene beo,idea ! 4>- 1--zz" -n..fl-,-*.-?a.=+r* i:--*: =?*>:s Evinrude Sets New Record Scuttling the idec thaf high "n!in" speed is neces- rary to high boat speed, Hu Enirop, famed Seattle racing boat driver, sel a new world outboard speed, record of I t4.5350 miles per hour with an engine lurninE a leisurely 49m revolulions per minule. Enirop drove his Siarflite Too, t I+ft. racing hydroplane, powered by an Evinrude V-4 engine, to the new mark on Havasu Lake on the Califor' nia-Arizona border, March 29. Making lhe record even more impressive was the fact that the standard compression and displace- menl engine was equipped with stock spark plugs and burned lhe normal fuel mixiure of regulrr' gasoline and outboard motor oil available at filling stations, rather than a racing fuel mir of alcohol. ln direct contrast to the mild-mannered Enthrop was lhe dynamic collaborator in lhe record lrial, C. W. Jones. Phoenix marine distributor, who for almosl l0 years had been obsessed with ihe passion of setting a world unlimited class oufboard record, A, hT, NEiT Prr&E

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