hey, No Guts, No Glory!

of course now days it is more 'the older I get the faster I was'

thats why I focus on looking cool, or at least trying to

Hey Tom, I'll have to get up there and take a look at this thing. Seems like I'm there a lot (at Cobe) but always run in the Joe.

Thanks everyone for your comments. This is the reason why we do what we do. So many lost and forgotten boats sitting around just waiting on someone to come and rescue them. All that history on the verge of being lost. Today's boats may be much flashier and have everything in them including the kitchen sink but there's just something about having a earlier, simple single function and very cool boat. A boat that you're not able to go down to the local dealership and buy anymore. Ours may not be the fastest, may not be the flashiest but like our motto says, it's not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.
The first criteria of being one of our restorations, when we first see it the first words that come to mind has to be, "what a cool boat" no matter what conditions it's in.

I agree. I go on ebay from time to time just to see some of the cool old boats out there. I restore old cars and boats and they definatly had more style in years past. now days it is hard to tell anything apart at a distance.

I'm always scanning ebay, craigs list, penny saver just looking for that boat that is just too cool to let rot. I'm constantly in trouble with the g/f for too many.

At least you have a big building at work to hide yours in.

If it would rain too much more I could test run them inside.

I was thinking about that.
Make that side a giant indoor pool. Get a couple RC boats and teach boat handling as a side business. When it rains we could teach fowl whether handling. LOL
Seriously though I would give my right nut for that building.

We prefer cash.

I wish I had it to make an offer. It would be a dream come true.

Just another winter time quick update. I wish more was going on but for now it has to be everything we can do inside.
Being that we are not building a super special highly chrome big block beast with tons of bling bling we did decide to dress the motor a little bit. So we used the same color that is going on the deck to highlight some accent stripes on the valve covers. And to top it off we took the Merc plastic carb cover, stripped all the decals off, repainted and then did the same accent stripes on it. Then it dawned on us that it would be subjected to 50 to 60 mile an hour winds so we had to reinforced the underside with some half-inch thick plastic. You can probably pick the motor up with it now.
With the motor pretty much done we are moving on to anything we can get our hands on. Even if it means just painting and prepping it for future install. One was the fuel system, being that the new gas tanks have top feeds instead of bottom feeding tanks that were originally in the boat we had to change some of the fuel system around. So now both tanks will feed the fuel filter with cutoffs so you can isolate one tank from the other. Also adding a switch under the fuel gauge that will allow you to use one gauge for two tanks.
Along with that the paint is also in, we are hoping the colors that we chose will give a classic and not an old look. Parts to complete the exhaust and anything else that needs to be bought should be in the shop by now. We hate to do it but we are keeping the 3 inch exhaust tips being that four inch will not fit on the transom. We did at least polished them (they are aluminum) and they didnt turn out to bad. So it will be 4 inch all the way back until it reaches the three reducers just before the tips. Shouldn't hurt performance any being the motor is not a super performer anyway. Also picked up Ron Hill left-hand prop so we won't have to flip the motor around. Wish props were this cheap for our other boats. For what we paid for them we could've bought three for this boat. We know we don't have a baseline yet but we know what was on it and took a best guess at it anyway. What the hell they're cheap enough to do.
We then spent a few days building the one and only seat in the boat. After thinking about it a it turns out to be an expensive seat. We have leftovers but that will only benefit the next boat if we use it on it. But it didn't turn out too bad afterall.
From there we are working on what connects the motor to the V Drive and the V Drive itself. The drive shaft should be completed today. Almost all of it is new but the tube was too long so it's being cut down a rebalance. Next comes the V Drive and on from there.

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