Miss America VIII Twin V16 engines. Found on carguychronicles
The newest pictorial history book by Detroit News - Iconic Images of Detroit's Past: History Through the Lens of The Detroit News - features images of champion motorboat builder and racer, Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood.. Powerboat racer Gar Wood pilots his Miss America VIII in August 1927. Wood, who called Detroit his home, set multiple speedboat records with a series of boats, all named Miss.
Miss America VIII
Miss America VIII is fitted with its original one-off Miller V16 1,113-cubic-inch-displacement engines, specially built for the boat by the legendary Indy car and engine builder, Harry Miller, to.
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Miss America VIII was Wood's latest and greatest. Since 1918, with Miss Detroit III, he had been fitting his speedboats with aircraft engines, first Curtiss and then Liberty V-12s. Wood was so committed to winning—nine times he took the Harmsworth Trophy, formally known as the British International Trophy for Motorboats—that he.
Gar Wood's 3,600HP Miss America VIII Race Boat Heads To Auction
Miss America VIII will be sold with a collection of original parts including the original Schweitzer / Cummins roots style superchargers. Also, Orlin Johnson, the chief mechanic for Gar Wood during the Harmsworth years collected a tremendous amount of photos and supporting materials from 1905 to 1975. Over 1000 items are included with the sale.
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Miss America VIII. The brainchild of Garfield Wood and designer Napoleon "Nap" Lisee was built in 1929 to be the fastest boat in the world, and was considere.
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With Kaye Don driving, MISS ENGLAND II lost the race to MISS AMERICA VIII but posted the fastest lap ever turned on a closed course at 93 miles per hour, a record that would stand unchallenged until 1949. After his final successful defense with Miss America X in 1933, Wood retired from racing. A wealthy man, he and his wife had homes in Detroit.
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Miss America VIII. The brainchild of Garfield Wood and designer Napoleon "Nap" Lisee was built in 1929 to be the fastest boat in the world, and was considere.
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MISS AMERICA VIII was a 26' unlimited hydroplane, racing number #U-16, built in 1929 was probably the design of Gar Wood's head designer Napoleon Lisee and built by Gar Wood, Inc. of Algonac, Michigan. Typed negative sleeve info.: "38380-F". Stamped: "MIAMI 1930". Handwritten: "Miss America VIII / Box 2742".
Miss America VIII
The Miss America VIII was built with two goals in mind: claiming the British International Harmsworth Trophy for the United States, and setting the world unlimited water speed record. While the.
Gar Wood's 3,600HP Miss America VIII Race Boat Heads To Auction
MISS AMERICA VIII ended up as the winner. Since the Harmsworth was a best two-out-of-three-heat contest, only MISS ENGLAND II and MISS AMERICA VIII were eligible to run in Heat Three. MISS ENGLAND II was too badly damaged to continue. So, George Wood and MISS AMERICA VIII ran the third heat unopposed and won the race.
Miss America
People. Our readers and especially the antique boat collectors among the group will be interested to learn that Miss America VIII, Gar Wood's two-time Harmsworth Trophy winning race boat will be offered at Mecum's Kissimmee Auction as Lot S239, on Saturday Jan. 28, 2012 in Kissimmee, Fla. A winner of the coveted Harmsworth Trophy in 1929 and.
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A fairly recent image of the Miller V-16 engines installed in Wood's Miss America VIII. ( Mecum Auctions image) Minus the superchargers, the 1,113 cu in (18.24 L) Miller V-16s were sold to Howard "Whitey" Hughes. The now normally aspirated V-16 engines had four carburetors and produced around 930 hp (694 kW) at 4,500 rpm.
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In 1931, Miss America IX (bottom), with Gar Wood at the wheel, battles Kaye Don and Miss England II on the Detroit River for the coveted Harmsworth Trophy. Both crossed the starting line too soon and were disqualified. But Gar's brother George won the race with Miss America VIII to keep the trophy in America.
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faster boat than "Miss America V", especially without Orlin Johnson in the mechanic's seat. Magnuson's replica of "Miss America VII", meticulously researched and built with plans lofted off the still-extant "Miss America VIII", was launched 70 years later in July of 1999 for initial test runs on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Miss America VIII
MIAMI, Fla., March 27.--With Miss America VIII, fastest boat of them all, damaged to such an extent as to make its new assault on the world speed record highly improbable for.
Miss America VIII
Here is a different view of the famous Gar Wood Miss America VIII when the starboard engine was started. January 25th, 2012.
