After the successful design, a factory was needed in order to build more boats like it.

He had plenty of cheese. People said whatever Don touched turned to gold. He was larger than life. He had been shot in the chest and stabbed five times in the chest.The house was generally not ransacked, and there were no signs of forced entry. He competed in the race in April ’62 and led until the end, but they [blew] a clutch and had nothing left.

He had two elder sisters, Sylvia and Lillian. You make a living doing that. Six foot three, real good looking, lots of swagger. He was tan enough that one might suspect a woodpile malfunction. Made quite a lot of money on it in spring of 1964. A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida, he had bought a boat in California, and he asked Aronow and me to drive it and see if it was any good. And he never would backpedal later or change things. You make real money when you sell the company.Brown: He was also the best boat salesman in the history of the world. The boat coasted in fourth. He competed in the race in April ’62 and led until the end, but they [blew] a clutch and had nothing left. Some people bad-mouth him, “Oh he did this, he robbed that,” well that’s shame on you. He was going to run for president, and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him!Saccenti: [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, that’s a shame. Adams was shot to death in April 1983 during a car chase on Interstate 95 in Broward County. At the time, he was suspected of financing a large-scale cocaine-and-marijuana smuggling operation.As for Hicks, he was no stranger to law enforcement either.

Peters: It could have been anyone from drug runners, to business partners, to jealous husbands.Peters: One of the first issues I had to deal with when he hired me [in the early ’80s] was [notorious Haitian dictator] Baby Doc [who was a client]. Performance boats attract a lot of characters.Brown: Ben Kramer bought USA Racing from Aronow and apparently there was some money under the table. All Rights Reserved. He was going to run for president, and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him!Saccenti: [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, that’s a shame.

Hicks and Adams were pals with Aronow, according to Hicks’ daughter.Both Adams and Hicks were killed years earlier, in separate cases in 1983.

And he eventually became aggravated with the business. And he liked to get the best of people.Saccenti: When he came to Florida, he got hooked up with the greats, and he definitely made his mark.

He was right out of a Hollywood script. He was right out of a Hollywood script. His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. And he eventually became aggravated with the business. In 1985 Don Aronow sold USA Racing, the company who produced Blue Thunder to Ben Krammer, a race boat driver with a conviction for marijuana smuggling in 1977. They become friends and Mr. Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race and my father became really interested in it. And I seen it, the blood. That was just his personality.Saccenti: The real Don was sitting at a business table negotiating deals. I used to work boat shows with him and aronow: I don’t think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it to be honest.Brown: At Cigarette he had an intercom in his office and he used to boff his secretary there and if you needed him you just hit him on the intercom!Peters: The upstairs apartment above his office was kind of famous. During his quarter-century-long reign as the undisputed king of Thunderboat Row, Aronow was a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I never thought anybody’d actually do that, but by God they did.Peters: Bush’s reaction was that he wanted Dade Homicide on it like the most important case on their books. He’s the only person I’ve ever known like that. Aronow went down the canal 65 mph in it, and ended up running into the seawall. We could see all the gunshots.Brown: He was murdered right out in front of my office halfway between Saccenti’s building and my building. I told my secretary to call 911. This is his story in the words of some of the men who knew him best.The Beatles, Don Aronow, and his son Michael cruise off Miami before the band’s iconic 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.Brown: Shirley was his first wife. They had two sons, Gavin and Wylie. You can talk to anybody [about that].

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