Gar Wood and Miss America X

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Stock #:641706
Type: Postcard
Publisher: The Texas Company
Size: 3.25" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Gar Wood and Miss America X-winners in the Harmsworth races of 1933 (fueled and lubricated by Texaco) Miss America X, the world's fastest speedboat. Length 38 feet, weight 9 1/2 tons. Her four engines aggregate 6,800 horse power-equal to about three times that of a Twentieth Century locomotive. In the Harmsworth Trophy race, as well as in the run that set a world's speedboat record, Gar Wood used Texaco Products.

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