Well this is new. Way to go Cigarette
 

Or at least i haven't seen it before

Poker run support?

wonder how that will work for LOTO event :)

https://cigaretteracingsupport.com

You have to watch the slide show of parts under the “Mercury parts” banner. It’s all antique 2 stroke outboard parts lol.

Is this an older part of the website? The contact is Mindi, and I thought she went to work for Randy Sweers / FB a while back?

"Poker Run Support" --- that's a thing? I guess I was naive to think that the rich guys running deep-6-figure boats were gonna be doing anything other than driving.

Uuuhhhh......whats with the Maytag repairman in the add? Really adds to that legitimate feel?

Hey thats a designer jumpsuite Jr Maytag is wearing, buck up $499 !!!!.

FWIW this is not a bad idea, there is a certain segment of the market on this they will capture, Not at LOTO IMO however, they wouldn't have the man power to pull it offhowever the boy racers with loads of coin will be herded. They do this sort of thing on the auto side, Mercedes, Ferrari, Porsche, Chevy too on the vette product. Designated track days and/or preperation services with trailer support. Not an apples to apples comparison from track to water but yea if they manage it correctly and pay the personel its succesful on the track side for cars.

Pretty positive there are those (boat owners) that do this at times. Long hauls especially.

In fact, I’m 100% on this.

Oh yea, see it at the Key West run, owner flys in, someone else has brought the boat down. They run it to the Keys, truck and trailer follow by road. After a week of partying, owner flys home and lets the crew do everything else.

When you have money you don't mess with the mundane part of boating.

The "maytag repair" man doesn`t look like he could fix anything, well maybe an election by stuffing mail in ballots.

I wish I had money. That would take some of the fun and satisfaction out of it, but would relieve ALOT of the frustration....

There are a couple guys in my area that it is a reasonable portion of their business. They are also occasionally hired to drive, so boat owner can be a passenger and just relax during the run.

Used to be pretty common for the big dogs at poker runs to have their boats transported/serviced by someone other than the owner. Jason Ventura started Brand X Performance marine on exactly this business model and was staying busy last I heard.

"Hello Cigarette Poker Run hotline? Yea, ummm...I just had my new 515 delivered to the boat ramp and the outdrives wont go down...I even turned the keys on....nothing!!! I have 6 people standing here waiting to go boating! I spend 1.5 Mil on a boat and I get it with dead batteries?????WTF !!!!"...............PHONE CHATTER>>>>........"OMG Cigarette Poker Run hotline! Thank you so much! You guys are the BEST !!!!!! I will look for the main switch panel!"

$1.5 mil on a new 515????

drives won't go down b/c there are no engines or anything under the hatch - you ran out of $$$ before the boat was finished!

LOL that’s the first thing I thought too!! Lol that’s funny.

try 3 mil.

The 515 at the show (grey) was 2.3 mil

Wow! Just goes to show how outta touch I am with pricing. My bank account puts me in more of the 1988 BULLET price range, which works for me. Cigarette wouldnt even give me that hotline number!

Whew...Still. Crazy. I remember not too many years ago a 50SS was a mil.