{"id":2850,"date":"2013-05-16T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/slideshow-legends-fans-relive-good-ol-hydro-days\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T02:20:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:20:26","slug":"slideshow-legends-fans-relive-good-ol-hydro-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/slideshow-legends-fans-relive-good-ol-hydro-days\/","title":{"rendered":"SLIDESHOW | Legends, fans relive good ol&#8217; hydro days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Big boat teams and drivers appeared at the inaugural H-1 Season Kickoff Party last Saturday at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fans came to meet drivers and hydroplane teams as they prepare for the May 31-June 2 unlimited H-1 season-opening race at Folsom Lake in Granite Bay, Calif., east of Sacramento.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Activities included a celebrity autograph session; &#8220;cackleFest&#8221; or test firing of the vintage boats&#8217; V-12 engines; panel discussion and season predictions with top drivers; and a silent auction of hydro memorabilia to raise money for the museum.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The 1982 Atlas Van lines and 1980 Miss Budweiser were on display.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The public also saw the finishing touches being put on the newly restored 1977 Atlas Van Lines (The Blue Blaster) that legendary driver Bill Muncey piloted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big boat teams and drivers appeared at the inaugural H-1 Season Kickoff Party last Saturday at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":2851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}