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...crafty, daring king of speedboat racers and three-time winner of the Gold Cup; of a heart attack; in San Diego. Though he whooshed the big hydroplanes through the water for 27 years, Fageol insisted that each race "scared hell out of me," finally retired in 1955 after his Slo-Mo-Shun V soared 70 ft. into the air at 165 m.p.h., looped the loop, and dumped Driver Fageol into Seattle's Lake Washington with four fractured vertebrae, four broken ribs, a punctured lung and a permanently damaged heart...
...skim the surface, bouncing along on three small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying run with Slo-Mo IV last week, Driver Joseph Taggart ran into the rippling wake of a small...
...cricket: "Give me a thumbscrew or slo fire every time...
...luck rode with him and the Bluebird held together, Don Campbell was on his way to get back the speed record once held by his father, the late Sir Malcolm Campbell (141.74 m.p.h.), and won in 1952 by Seattle's Stanley Sayres and his propeller-driven hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV (178.497 m.p.h...
...boats are the belles of Seattle and are owned by Car Dealer Stanley Sayres, 57. Five years ago, he sat down with a boatbuilder and a designer to work out a radical craft that would ride as much on air as on water, yet be controllable. The result was Slo-Mo IV, which the Detroiters have now grudgingly copied; but, as this week's race proved, they have not yet caught up with Stan Sayres. Throwing up a saucy rooster tail of white spray as she churned round & round the 3¼-mile course, Slo-Mo IV rubbed...