McMannus Top Gun
 

Whats the deal with the 1988 T/G thats been for sale for so long? Blue outside/ yellow inside. Says McMannus Cigarette 38 on it. History? Problems?

Thought it sold.

Possibly, still curious. Has what appears to be Apache stickers on it as well. How/ why does it differ from a regular Top Gun?

That is the old Zero Cavity race boat, was restored by mcmanus a while back(where the apache decals cme from), then sold to a Jerk, and it sat outside uncovered for a while, great boat, but will need some work now.

Wasn't that boat fitted with a set of "pulse" drives a few years back. There was some mention of it here and then the "speedys" were back on it.

Yep, it had 3As, then Pulse for what, a month? Now the 3As are back on it.

i would have been proud to own it at one time. It was badass, and could be again. There have been lots of rumors/stories about the boat. One was that "she" got it in the divorce or whatever, and it sat outside uncovered for a while and it weathered. Searched on "Zero Cavity Cigarette" will turn up lots of results here on OSO.

The story I heard was the girlfriend(or wifes) family financed it, and got stuck with the payment(and a boat they would never use) when he left. Heard it had a blown tranny or maybe just a line, and got left outside to get wet, then he split(or got kicked out) and she got stuck with it(and the payment). The guy I am talking about is the one who also stole the charity money from FMO. A few guys from FMO know the boat better than I do in its current state, I knew it years ago before, and just after the redo.

Thanks.

What ever happened to the pulse drives? I remember that there was quite a bit of noise about them at one time, then nothing.

I don't know what happened with them but they did't work out on the Docs Cig.