Pay 'n Pak Wins Hydroplane Event

MADISON. Ind., July 6 (UPI) - Pay 'n Pak, chalking up two course records en route, won the $30,000 Indiana Governor's Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes today on the Ohio River.

George Henley of Eatonville, Wash., steered the Seattle‐based craft to a first and two seconds in its three heats to best Weisfield's, driven by Billy Schumacher of Seattle.

Pay 'n Pak cruised the 2½‐mile river course at an average speed of 115.148 miles an hour in the fourth of the day's five heats for one mark. Henley's fastest lap in the five‐lap, 12½‐mile event of 116.883 m.p.h., also was a record.

How do you paint the Pak?

September 26, 2016 - The 1973 “Winged Wonder” U-25 Pay ‘n Pak, owned by Ken Muscatel, is currently being restored by the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum. Here is how the paint went down on the 'Pak.

Step 1 - Spray the White

Step 2 - Mask for the Orange

Step 3 - Spray the Orange

Step 4 - Remove the Mask

Step 5 - Mask for the Black

Step 6 - Spray the Black

Step 7 - Remove the Mask

Step 8 - Sit back and enjoy the results...but not too long.

Step 9 - Spray the Clear (upside down)

Remund Drives Pay ’n Pak To 2 Hydroplane Records

SEATTLE, Aug. 4, 1973 (AP)—The Pay ‘N Pak, badly damaged in the Gold Cup two weeks ago, warmed up today for the Seafair world championship regatta by setting two unlimited hydroplane records.

Mickey Remund at the wheel of the Pay 'N Pak.

Mickey Remund drove Pay ‘N Pak twice around the three‐mile Lake Washington course during time trials for tomorrow's race at speeds averaging 126.464 and 126.761 miles an hour.

The faster lap time broke the old one‐lap time trial record over a three–mile course of 125.874 m.p.h. set here last year by an earlier version of the Pay ‘N Pak with a different driver in the cockpit, Billy Sterett Jr. Remund's average for the two laps, 126.613 m.p.h., broke the old mark in that department, 125.874, also set by Sterett last year.