Print, Photographic

Sepia-toned photo of Gar Wood and Charles F. Kettering riding in a Gar Wood 28-55 motorboat, as taken from the shore at the north end of the canal bordering the Grayhaven community on the east. "Gar Wood, the Greatest Name in Motorboating," is painted on the starboard side of the boat. A black bag is on the shore in the foreground near the lower left. A typewritten caption pasted to the verso reads:

Gar Wood Runabout is Fastest Stock Motor Boat
The new 28-foot, 55-mile-an-hour runabout built by Gar Wood Incorporated of Marysville, Michigan is said to be the fastest stock motor boat built. It is powered by a twelve-cylinder, 425-horsepower Gar Wood engine. here are the Commodore and Charles F. Kettering, president of General Motors Research Corporation, in the 28-55 stock model which won the "Free for all" in the 1930 Harmsworth Trophy Races at Detroit.