Under Construction....
 

Nice work by Vincent Custom Paint in Missouri!!!

87 Baja Force 280. Custom paint, replace wood swim platform with aluminum, remove all railings, replace cleats with pop-ups, lowered windshield 6 inches with a windscreen, replace dual one piece seats with twin bolsters, new white rub rails. This is the starting pic.

Vincent is also doing this one: http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...threadid=71886

Jim

Railings gone....
 

Keeping the arch.... and windshield chopped 6 inches

Jim

Hmmm, Maybe without the arch???
 

just a thought... no arch??? Where would I put my speakers???

Arch reversed.... Leaning Forward
 

What do you think?

Primed
 

All white......

Looks great, Jimmy.
Personally, I like the arch on that boat. It matches the lines nicely.

I can't wait to see how it turns out. Arch looks best leaning backwards; never did like the forward leaning.

Mike

yep I like arch to leaning back wards too. keep the pic's coming looks great.

keep those pic comming..
looks great

drive showers arrived today.

Anxious to see what it looks like. As far as the arch, I am still undecided.

I'm anxious as well. Vincent just sent this update.

new pictures-

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Lookin good! How much? JMO It looks newer w/out the arch.

looks longer without the arch plus newer

keep the damn arch off that boat looks sweet. Can't wait to see it finished.

Jim, your boat looks great, let me know when you get it done, I want to see it.
Paul

wow!!!!!!
very nice, can't wait to see the finished product. what does paint like that cost?

About $50.00 per Gallon!:D



Sorry, there is a smart a$$ in every crowd!

The boat is looking GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally, I like the Arch!

WOW, That's going to be a good looking boat..p.s. no arch....

Thanks Paul, I'm anxious to get it home.

I appreciate everyone's nice comments. Thanks!!!

Jim

Post some more pics I want to see the paint job

Ok Ironmanwb, just for you....

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nose

WOW !!That is such a bad a$$ paint job who designed it ?

Your making me want to take my boat and redo the damn thing and its only 2 seasons old. But mine has boring factory riptide grafics?

PS what motor and drive combo.... Speed ect?

Ironmanwb,

Vincent Custom Paint is doing the work. This is an old 87 Baja Force 280. Still has original 454's w/300 hrs on them. It also has alpha drives. I did replace a drive last year with a counter rotater in increased MPH alittle. Present GPS speed is only 68mph.

Jim

Jimmy,

It has a look of the "Team Baja" graphics they did a couple of years ago.

This picture is of a 25 Outlaw on our lake!

Looks Very Nice.

With that kind of paint you need to whipple those and add some bravos or xr drive to that puppy and get her screeming. Some one on here in the teck Q and A was talking about a factory 28 that had 502's and hit nearly 80 but it had a bad porposing and chine walking problem. They said that it must have been that particuar boat. Ne way great boat great job on the refit I think I like the way it looks more than the new 30 ol.

Thanks Ironmanwb,

The boat hull can handle big power. My brother has a 280 that runs 87 GPS.

Jim

Jimmy-
Damn good lookin boat!

Nice, how much did it cost?

New pictures today.....

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still waiting for the new swim platform....

Man it's almost like you got a new boat...MAJOR difference. Looks GREAT:cool:

Way Cool !!!!!:cool: :cool: :cool:

The boat looks awesome !!!!!!

PLEASE dont take this the wrong way,,, but you should have painted the trailer while the boat was off of it,,, it would REALLY complete the package going down the road !!!!

And if you have a new trailer on the way,, or are planning on it already, or it sits on a lift all summer,, go ahead and call me a di@k !!!!!