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I will talk to Dave [Ygrowup] and see if he has any more.

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Thanks for the help, appreciate it very much.

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Bad Girl Ken, any way that you could get some photos to post of the boat's current state? Does it still have that wild '80s paint job intact?

I think that boat is a knockout, then again, I own two Camaros...

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yes , it still has the same paint job. however it is not in the best shape. I has degraded over the years. The boat has been been in storage sitting disassembled with all the original parts for about 17-18 +yrs. No moters to speak of. Past owner has done some nice glass work and added a fairing. New owner wants to add more seating like a 6 pack. Will work on pics.
Ken

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Thanks Ken!

Anyone in-the-know what to tell me what this boat is? The deck and cockpit are very different from the mistresses I've seen. The cockpit is much shorter between the hatches and the windscreen and it doesn't have the v-windshield like the standard mistress nor the more vertical race fairing like the racier mistresses.

The deck looks like the old 36' Widebody deck, but it clearly isn't as wide as the widebody. The Cockpit area looks like the widebody cockpit too, but again the area between the cockpit sides and the deck edge are much narrower (compared to the '72 that's in the classifieds).

Is it a 35' or a 36'?

I love the look of this boat. If I could figure out what it was, I'd start keeping my eye out for one...

Thanks!

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The boat you are talking about is a staggered engine 35` race boat, same as the race boats of that era, ie: Benihana, american eagle, Dry Martini etc. The guy that used to own it, his name was Ron not sure of last name, he was the one with Richie Sapulla who copied a 41` apache, cut it down put a canopy on it and crashed it pretty bad in a testing accident boat was called Cigar. Back to the 35`. The deck and cokpit was like the widebody 36` because it was the same deck. Don used to set the 36` race deck on the 35` and cut the edges off to fit the narrow beam, most of them were slightly off center, depended on the day the deck was put on as to how straight it was. Don never built a race deck for the 35` race boats. I was the one who modified the old square box hatches from the 40` widbody deck to fit the 35` race setup. I`m not sure of origin of Burn baby burn, It may have been Billy Mcdonalds 35` race boat. 7XCHAMP

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Thanks Richie. Nice to get some info from the guy who made the Cigarettes smoke, so to speak!

So I'm guessing that it's fair to say these things are somewhat hard to come by compared to finding an old mistress or 36'. How many were out there originally?

From the looks of it, the boat is similar to the Bounty Hunter that Billy Martin is running right now. Is that correct? (Edit - I finally saw better pictures of Bounty Hunter, I'm guessing it's a widebody 36' not the narrow 35' like this boat).

Thanks again!

So whats the latest...... Would love to see the current condition.

good call fire up the pics................

Any news on Burn Baby Burn?

ttt

It`s similar but not the same. The Boat Billy is currently running looks like the widebody 36` Since I have been responding to the forums it makes me think back and wonder what 35` it was that billy ran for a few races, I wonder if it`s possible it could have been the 35` Conspiracy/MightyMouse boat. If Don asked to use it from the owner I`m sure it would have been no problem, and if I remember he only ran it once or twice as Don had him run the 39` halter brown and black boat??????????????????/ Makes me wonder, I don`t really recall, but would make sense if nobody knows what happened to the 35` 7XCHAMP

New Old Pic's Of Burn Baby Burn
 

It took about a year to find these pictures of this Cig. These were taken about 20 years ago in the Clinton Township Mi police impound yard. My friend Terry said it was very sad to see it this way. One of the hatches were missing, and all the eng & electrical hardware, and full of snow. Shure hope that it is in restoration.

I believe that was when it was at Shadowoods off of 15 mile road. They use to be one of the impound yards that clinton police used. That's when I seen the boat my bro kept his late model racecar there.

Frank the old owner of that Ciggie was at my shop last thursday for his monthly BS session.


Spark

Sparky you don't have time to be on here. Don't you have a Miami Vice Scarab to fix???

Is this brother Ben ? That thing is comming along nicely. I need to finish her and Robbies Magnum up so I can get to my family in SC, My wife has been all over me about getting my shop up and running in SC just outside of columbia.


Spark

Cool that's bout 1.5 hours away from me. Tim asked if his Vice boat was going to have as many birthdays as Robbies Magnum??:cool-smiley-011:

Ben I forgot that Shadowoods had a impound yard, were these pic's taken longer than 20 years ago ? I know the Cig was missing in the early 80's.

If everything go's as schedule Rob's boat will be going into paint towards the end of the week, your brothers engine compartment is all done except for gelcoat I have to tint up a turqouise color. I am pulling it off the trailer and starting on the bottom soon !
This winter has been just a big money juggle!!:party-smiley-004:

ita not juggle its JUNGLE and all the animals are not in the trees . Hay Ben, dont you have a race to run ?

That had to be 85-87.

Yep

That stern shot is custom-cool. :Score-101010:
Love the detailed hardware-thanks for the pics
go old school custom..:cool-smiley-011:

Stolen???

The boat looks to be in rough shape for being about 10yrs old.

Was it put back together by Frank after this??


.......Nice pic by the way.

I also noticed that the deck is white and also the dash.

The side on shot looks like the deck is still black. The dash/cockpit look white, but I wonder if the deck itself isn't just covered in what you eskimos like to call "snow"? :D

Sorry, still a bit sore that Niagara went down to Michigan in the first round of the NCAA hockey tournament!

Frank never put it back together, but who ever striped her really did a number on it. And that is snow on the deck, old camera lots of glare. Here the post from 1-17-07 that said it in restoration. It's been over a year, hope they post some pic's.
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It still has the same paint job. however it is not in the best shape. I has degraded over the years. The boat has been been in storage sitting disassembled with all the original parts for about 17-18 +yrs. No moters to speak of. Past owner has done some nice glass work and added a fairing. New owner wants to add more seating like a 6 pack. Will work on pics.

H20, thanks for the info,

So what did Frank get to replace the Cig? I think I remember another boat with an air brush paint job mabey a Scarab with an arch??

He sure did have some bad a$$ boats back in the day.

He sure had some bad a$$ boats, at least 2 Magnum's 27' [SUPER SCREW, BROAD JUMPER] and then the [Bittersweet, BURN BABY BURN] Cig. I hear he now has a cruiser !

He keeps the cruiser at Markley and he has a little pumpkin shell jet boat.

Spark, Thanks for the tour of your EXCEPTINOAL SHOP. Now I know why Rob and so many others go to Vicious Marine, for repairs, and Custom made boats.

Thanks Mark! Stop by anytime.:D

Does anyone out there have any more pics of Burn Baby Burn / Bitersweet from the past ? I currently own the boat and will post some pics shortly . I haven't done much with her yet , But she is stored safe & dry inside. Thanks Troy

Troy, there's a bunch of photos in this thread, but you'll probably have to buy a membership to see them. I've got some downloaded though. Feel free to email or PM if you want me to forward them to you. Very very cool boat! Hope you bring her back to her '70s shag glory!

FINALLY......and glad to see you are here!!!

Cant wait to hear the details.

I am pretty tight with the father and son that owned the boat, I will see what pics I can get from them.



Spark

Welcome to OSO, be cool to see that boat fully restored!!


Jon

I took a bunch of 35mm pictures of it in it's prime around 82-83 when it was on display at the Detroit Autorama, Give me some time and I will see if I can dig them up and have h20boater scan them and email them to you.

Clear your pm box lee........