Quote Originally Posted by Hotboat View Post
Ok I gotta ask, where do you find this stuff? It is in your garage? Pretty cool classic stuff for sure.
My dad had acquired a small stack of race boat magazines when I was young and I loved to look through them. I grew up around Hot Rod cars and Boats and my heros were Julian Pettingill, Gordon Jennings Sr, Paul Grichar, Ray Caselli, Schwabby, Don Garlits, Tom McEwen, Bob Hannah etc. I also thought many traditional ball sports athletes were cool too, but the "2 ball" motorsports were just more exciting to me.

As I've gotten older I turned a photo/video hobby into a (very small) business and was rewarded by having many of my "heros" become my friends. The more videos I shot the more friends I made and It got to where some of the older guys would ask me if I wanted their old collections knowing they would be well kept, appreciated and utilized and that everyone would benefit from.

Along the way, I've spent some money on ebay grabbing up what I can, but it's rare when anything pops up at all and especially for rags I don't already have.

I have a lot of stuff, but I also know of 2 people with fairly large collections that I hope to end up with someday. I guess I've become a raceboat magazine "hoarder". lol

This is about 2/3rds of my stash. So as you can see, I can keep this thread going a while.