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1938 Pacific Motor Boat Trophy Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Prior to World War II, Gold Cup and Unlimited Class racing was confined largely to the northeast quadrant of the United States. But there was a small p… View »
1938 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The U.S. team held back the foreign challenge in 1937, but bowed to Count Rossi in 1938. Rossi pushed his 19-foot 7-inch ALAGI, powered by half of an I… View »
1937 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian IMPSHI's win in 1936 returned the Gold Cup to the trophy shelf of the Detroit Yacht Club. The 1937 race proved to be one of the more successful in the… View »
1937 Gold Cup Question
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian QUESTION: Fred, in a number of your articles, you've mentioned the 1937 Gold Cup in Detroit and what a significant event it was. Could you please elabo… View »
1935 Gold Cup
Reprinted from TIME Magazine, August 5, 1935 No. I event of U. S. motorboat racing, in years when no one challenges Gar Wood for the Harmsworth Trophy, is the race for the Gold Cup in which specifica… View »
1933 - The Year of the Dodge Navy
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The Great Depression of the 1930s had a profound effect on American life in general and on Gold Cup hydroplane racing in particular. One man who helped… View »
1924 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian In between the World Wars, Unlimited hydroplanes were barred from participation in the APBA Gold Cup. In their place, a new category of racing boat was… View »
1915 APBA Gold Cup
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The first major race to be run on the Detroit River was the 1916 APBA Gold Cup. This was by virtue of the community-owned Miss Detroit winning the Cup… View »
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Historical Articles
1915 - 1939 1915 APBA Gold Cup 1924 Gold Cup Remembered 1933 - The Year of the Dodge Navy 1935 Gold Cup 1937 Gold Cup Question 1937 Gold Cup Remembered 1938 Gold Cup Remembered 1938 Pacific Mo… View »
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