Word: bardahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wynn Oil Co., which promotes three oil additives, including "Charge!" The company was founded in 1939 by Ches-tien Wynn, a lawyer who mixed a homebrew "friction proofing" in a 55-gal. drum and sold bottles of it to local garages. Sales last year were $14 million. The Bardahl Mfg. Corp. markets 18 products in 82 countries. Its private owners do not disclose sales figures, but the company is probably third in size, behind STP and Wynn...
They might have missed something. Three times a national champion, Seattle's Ron Musson, 38, was doing an estimated 170 m.p.h. in his rear-engined, $250,000 Miss Bardahl when he flashed past the judges' stand on the second lap of the regatta's second heat. In full view of 20,000 horrified spectators, Miss Bardahl clipped something in the water, sheared off a propeller blade, shot straight up into the air, fell back, and disintegrated. Less than three hours later, in the final heat, Don Wilson, 34, in Miss Budweiser and Rex Manchester, 39, in Notre...
...richest-$10,500, plus a new car to the winner. At last week's 58th annual running of the race on Seattle's Lake Washington, the sentimental favorite was a hometown hero: Ron Musson, 36, who had won the cup for the past two years in Miss Bardahl. But his hydroplane was three years old, had not been running well since it was dropped from a crane last month. In the trials, Musson was fourth (at 113.5 m.p.h.) among twelve qualifiers-far behind the record-setting (120.3 m.p.h.) Miss Exide. "Usually I try to win every heat," grumbled...