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October 8 in History

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Plywood Kerosene and Three Hundred Miles an Hour

October 8, 1978

Plywood Kerosene and Three Hundred Miles an Hour

In nineteen seventy-eight, an Australian salesman lined up a homemade wooden boat on Blowering Dam to chase the deadliest title in motorsport. What happened across that eight-kilometer stretch of water has defied every aerospace engineer and high-budget challenger for nearly fifty years.

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