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Curious about the name Tom Tom. I read in the article the owers name was Tom, but wondering if the boat ever named Tom Tom, or was it just something that stuck.
very cool boat

Big Thank You to the following;
Mr McManus for making the acquisition possible.
John Pompi at Marine Performance for the derigging, engineering, and new rigging.
Chris Dilling at Grafik EFX for the design work.
Eddie at Guardado Marine for all the glasswork and painting.
Innovation Marine for the powertrain. Engines, trannies and drives.
Curtis Chapman for rebuilding the cabin door, I just had to have the door!
Mike at Fineline for all the upholstery!
And last but not least, my lovely bride and all my friends that had to deal with my neurotic ass during this restoration!! We are almost there!!
Robert

Nice work, glad you went with the newer EFI blowers, old school roots with carbs are cool but EFI in my book is the only way to go.

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Originally Posted by Shah Mat (Post 4901211)

Curious about the name Tom Tom. I read in the article the owers name was Tom, but wondering if the boat ever named Tom Tom, or was it just something that stuck.
very cool boat

I’m assuming it was named Tom Tom as that’s what the documentation shows.

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Originally Posted by F-2 Speedy (Post 4901293)

Nice work, glad you went with the newer EFI blowers, old school roots with carbs are cool but EFI in my book is the only way to go.

Thank you. So far, really impressed with them, but we were only out for 30 minutes checking everything before it was sent to Fineline.

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Originally Posted by tommymonza (Post 4776350)

Apache whatever.

Its still a old heavy dog that needs a minimum of a $100 Grand just in machinery to even begin to bring it to what it was if it has not had water sitting in it.

Even if it has not the combination of humidity, rainwater and it has been sitting on that lift less than a 1/4 mile from the Gulf for 10years without moving spells disaster..

You have to Pickle motors down here if your not going to use them for a couple years if you live within a few miles from the Gulf , or their frozen Junk..

If someone gave you the boat and $20t thousand to take it you would be much further ahead buying a nice running twin step Cig with 750s and some XRs that will run triple digits effortlessly .

You would be surprised at how sound the boat was after sitting for so long! Only soft areas were around holes cut into the stringers and that didn’t spread over 6” and we replaced the stringers and transom any. We gained access to all areas of the boat while we were changing the fuel tanks.