London gives the bums rush to Lombardo's TEMPO VII Speedboat
Guy Lombardo raced his Tempo VI and Tempo VII speedboats from the Detroit River to Miami Beach in the 1940's and 50's winning races wherever he went and bringing prestige to the sport of hydroplaning. His beloved Tempo VII was rescued from a junkyard in New York state and repaired so it could be put on display in his native London.
That worked for a while but London put the final nail in the coffin into the Lombardo Museum this year and now nobody knows what to do with the boat. Here's a start. Read what the damn thing did during it's years as a speedboat by clicking here. Read how it is respected world-wide in hydroplane history circles. Read what Lombardo did for the sport. It's all on this web site in the dozens of articles under HISTORY.
The saga of the Lombardo museum and Tempo VII is absurd considering Lombardo's fame. No other City would have treated his name or his memory in this way. Sadly, the kindest thing it can now do is send the boat to The Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent Washington with all freight costs covered. I'm sure they will gladly accept it.
