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Page 149 speedy runabout. Wood never entered the Gold Cup again, concentrating instead on the International Harmsworth races, which he dominated until his retirement in 1933. World War II brought a halt to all forms of racing from 1942to the war's end. The Gold Cup series was resumed in 1946 with a race at the Detroit Yacht Club. The race attracted only a few Gold Cup boats left over from the pre-war days, and a scad of .225 Class boats. Also in attendance was a big, rough-riding speedster from Oakland, California which utilized a war surplus Allison V12 fighter plane engine. It was Dan Arena's MISS GOLDEN GATE III, and the big yellow boat roared around the Detroit River throwing a mammoth roostertail and showing the establishment the future of Gold Cup racing. Arena led the final Gold Cup heat, breaking records lap after lap until his oil-starved engine gave out. Bandleader Guy Lombardo won the race with his TEMPO VI, but the new aircraft engined boats were here to stay. Lombardo's defense of the Cup was held on rugged Jamaica Bay, Long Island in 1947, but Danny Foster and the Dossin Brothers' MISS PEPS V took it back to Detroit. Foster had taken an old 23-foot racer, shoe-homed an Allison into it and hung the cockpit out over the transom. By 1948, there were no less than eighteen boats using the V12 Allison engine, but most of these were older hulls that were not built to house all that power. The Gold Cup race at Detroit saw 25 entries. Eighteen qualified, but the Detroit River was an ocean of whitecaps on race day. The entire fleet either sank or was beached in the most expensive race "equipment wise" in Gold Cup history. Even the winner, MISS GREAT LAKES, sank at the dock while Danny Foster, the winning driver, was receiving the trophy. The next year saw a much stronger fleet, with more boats built to hold an Allison or Rolls-Royce engine. Wild Bill Cantrell won the '49 race in MY SWEETIE, followed by Stanley Dollar in SKIP-A-LONG and Dan Arena in SUCH CRUST. MISS PEPS V winning the Gold Cup in 1947. In 1950, Stan Sayres' SLO-MO-SHUN IV, a new 3-point hydroplane from Seattle, set a new world straightaway record. Then Sayres announced that he was sending his boat to Detroit to vie for the Gold Cup. Most Detroiters scoffed. "Sure the boat was fast in a straight line," they said. "But it won't be able to make the turns on a closed race course." How wrong they were. With Ted Jones, the boat's designer in the cockpit, SLO-MO-SHUN IV proceeded to lap the field and win the Cup for Seattle. Sayres was able to successfully defend the Gold Cup on Lake Washington at Seattle for four straight years with his SLO-MO IV and the new SLO-MO V. Detroit sent a fleet of boats cross country each year, but were turned back by the Sayres craft every time. In 1955, Detroit was finally able to crack the SLO-MO-SHUN stranglehold. Lee Schoenith, driving his dad's GALE V, won the race by 4 seconds over Bill Muncey in Seattle's new MISS THRIFTWAY after SLO-MO IV conked out in the finals. The Detroit-Seattle Gold Cup rivalry was in full swing. The odd thing about the 1955 race was that young Bill Muncey was a Detroiter who found himself in a Seattle boat. The '56 renewal in Detroit drew 20 Unlimited boats. Joe Schoenith entered three boats - GALE IV, V, and VI - for the defense, and the Dossin