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...this into a twisted pile of junk which could not be rebuilt in time for the start. Mr. Reis reinstalled his old motor, stopped tinkering and announced that his boat was ready to race, against Bill Horn's Delphine IV, with a new $7,000 supercharger and Victor Kliesrath's Hotsy Totsy II, with a brand new supercharged Wright motor. If she could win, it would be the first time one boat had taken the Cup three times...
...length of time it took to paint and dry a car. "We might be able to do it in 34 days," he was told. "An hour would be more like it," he snapped back. *Buick's innovation of last year, "Wizard Control," was engineered by the Bragg-Kliesrath division of Bendix Aviation Corp. This year's selling feature, ''No-Draft Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player...
...Hotsy-Totsy, owned by Victor Kliesrath of Bragg-Kliesrath Co. (automobile brakes): the annual Gold Cup race for 625 cu. in. power boats; the first National Motor Boat Sweepstakes, at Red Bank, N. J., averaging 52 & 56 m.p.h...
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