Wouldn't it be sweet if Reggie did this?
 

I understand some cost would be involved and probably wishful thinking but here me out.

I was out in my boat this weekend and I have a 91 Fever. Its in nice shape, it has its old school dash, older styling of vinyl and graphics but for an old boat its nice. I do have water coming in from the drives which i think is the steering pin bushings but either way just normal 20+ year old boat stuff.

Anyways I was out on the water and you have people that know Fountain but then there are others who have no clue, but it seems everybody knows what a Cigarette or a Baja is.

What I was thinking that Reggie does a contest monthly, yearly, etc. To bring in these old dogs and over haul them. New interior, engines, drives, paint scheme, etc. Then unvail them at boat shows etc, and maybe even get a show like overhaulin going. I think this would be great for them to get exposure to the populace. These shows seem to help people take off big time.

Maybe its just me wanting a new boat but I think it could benefit this company big time. Even if they dont do shows, have unvails at non poker run events, things like Harbor fest, Coast Guard festils, etc. to get the name out to the non performance wise folks


I just like Fountain so much and thought about getting my fountain for 2 years while deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and unfortunately could only get a 91 but I love the boat and get props everytime I am out on it, love the dang thing to death.

They do exactly what your asking for.......and the boat owner PAYS for it.

Then, once it's done the boat owner WANTS his boat to use it.....not send it out for a bunch of non-boaters to trample all over it and ruin it.

Your missing the point. And I dont see a bunch of people trampling over OCC's bikes or West Coast Customs cars when they unvail. And I am sure after a Company like Fontain were to do this, they wouldnt just chuck the boat out in a crowd and say have it. There would be the people watching the boat, handing out t shirts etc. And yes if your a paying customer I wouldnt want my boat unvailed anywhere either. But if they did it as part of a show or marketing campaign I really wouldnt care if people looked at it for a couple of hours if it were cost free to me.

Just saying something like this could really put their name out there to what you say NON BOATERS.

Face it man the boating crowd is becoming smaller every day due to prices of boats and fuel. If you can put your name above the rest you will be better off in the long run. Maybe something like this isnt economically viable for fountain, I dont know, I dont know what they look like business wise. Maybe they don't want more of the market, I just don't know.
I just see on tv they are building, cars, guns, bikes, etc. But no boats.


Not only that where is the Merchandise line, hats, shirts, stickers, etc. The only way you buy something fountain is if its knock off on Ebay or something and even then its hard to find. I mean you do a search for fountain on ebay like 10 things come up, do a search for cigarette like 1000 things come up. I just think there are simple ways to really boost this companys name and image. Imagine a nice interactive website where you could buy clothing items, or basic fountain parts. Hell you cant even find emblems or the lightning wreath sticker. You have to beg borrow and steal a vector off of somebody and have a local shop knock one off for you. This is all lost revenue for this company.

Reggie doesn't own Fountain....just saying......:coolcowboy:

Jr does just saying:coolcowboy:

"To bring in these old dogs and over haul them. New interior, engines, drives, paint scheme, etc "

Sound like you're reusing the hull and tossing everything else. A complete overhaul like you're describing could cost as much as a new boat from the factory.
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...I don't think so...

Totally agreed and just a hypothetical idea here. But there are somethings you can weigh in here to factor out cost. For one your talking factory/whole sale cost, not the same as retail. Second off is sponsoring, I'm sure Fountain could drum up some sort of sponsoring from merc and others. And I'm not saying necessarily take everything off and chucking it. If drives are fine paint and rebuild them. Interior is fine, then its fine. Then if you promote and market the boat, you will gain new customer who will buy boats or will ge their boat redone. And fountain could take old boats in on trade for new then re sell re-fab ones, the options are endless here. If you got yourself a show they pay you to be on the show and free marketing every time you are on tv, which gains you more business. An old addage I have always thought was wise is "sometimes you have to spend money to make money"

I know fountain is getting into the business more and its smart do to the fact is people are keeping and fixing things more than they are buying new.

I think Reggie is doing what he should be doing...concentrating on his new business. Just my 2 cents.

Ummm....Fellas, I hate to break the news to you but....Neither Reggie Sr, Lil Reggie nor Wyatt are working for Fountain anymore...the left over 6 months ago. They have their own company called RF Powerboats. Besides, prior to his departure Reggie Sr had not been the "owner" of Fountain for years.

technically yes. But you know what we all mean

So you would want Reggie to promote his old boat company,

Or redo his old boats to promote his new company

Or The new owners of Fountain to promote Fountain/ Baja/ Donzi/ Proline?

Whoever owns Fountain time now. I know Reggie owen RF, and I guess from what some of you say nobody owns Fountain. Whoever makes the boats.

I've often thought there could be a reality showed centered around Reggie Sr.....He really has one of those intriguing personalities....it is amazing when you go somewhere in a Fountain how often people will recall details of either when they met or saw Reggie....last year we were driving him around at loto during the shootout in a Center Console and you would have thought we had Elvis on the boat...it was crazy....(although some people really thought he was an Elvis impersonator :lolhit:)

Thats what I am saying, you have shows that have made millions for the OCC guys, the REd Jacket, guys, Pawn stars,etc. If you have a polarizing figure and an interesting topic you would sell big time.

That was funny right there!!!!

:coolcowboy:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...giegooblin.jpg

Reggie needs to cut his hair so he doesn't look like a wild man from Borneo.

His older more professional look...

http://www.boattest.com/images-galle...untain_500.jpg

http://www.wcti12.com/2010/1210/26094969_240X285.jpg

Lol yeah reminds me of wayne newton. But the guy could build me a boat any day. You see those guys freak out on overhaulin. I would be times 100000000 excited if he built me something. Keep the damn boat till it sank too

I hope that none of these guys (from RF) EVER EVER EVER go onto television and become part of a retarded, completely staged, poser style-flat bill wearing Hurley hat with the sticker still on it type reality show.

These guys are famous because of what they do and their work speaks for itself. I hope to the high heavens that something like this never happens to "real" people...

All those shows that custom build cars and bike make me wonder what the product looks like a few years or miles down the road.
They are always behind schedule and doing late night assemblies. They may be gifted designers but I'm not impressed with their shop skills. Maybe the outside contractors do good work.
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Me too specially overhaulin. But they have like 30 guys working so the man hours gets spread out. Either way I wouldnt think a place like OCC or chip foose could afford a product to go out the door half aced.

You are right on many levels. But they probably could use the money, they have gone out of business or close to it what twice now

FYI...reality shows are cheap for a reason...thats cuz they are cheap to produce and the payroll for the "actors" is nothing. Given this I doubt Reggie would stand to gain much. The creators go out and find bankrupt fisherman (Last Catch), struggling Bike Builders (Jesse James) and any other one of the hundred reality shows and offer them "fame" and pay them ****. When have you ever seen an A List actor on a reality show?...never. The fact is that the only people making big money on mindless reality shows are the producers and those backing the thing financially. Why? Because Americans have become a society of mindless morons who are intrigued by shows that profess on the surface to be showcasing "middle America"..when in reality they are making a mockery out of most of the "stars" on the show. More power to those behind the scenes that are making bank at the expense of the poor souls who get wrapped up in such Bull****...I wish I would of thought of the concept.

This all being said, I would sure hope none of the Fountain's would ever consider stooping to a level of "Southern Fried Justice" or "Lizard Lick Towing". And if they did....I would probably watch it. I must go now, Americas Got Talent is on. LOL.

Jessie James net worth is over 100 million. I wish I was struggling like that.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/ric...mes-net-worth/

Your missing my point....And forgive me for not researching the "Celebrity Net Worth" website...Im sure they are a very credible and reliable source of ones income....Jesus Man...cmon.

How do you have a point when these guys are rich. For instance pawn stars and that idiot chumley. Think before the show he was rolling around in a range rover and masaratti? Well he is now. Yeah they may not be paying these guys millions upon millions that they would for tom cruise in a movie but its what comes with the shows. Take OCC for instance the business they gained, the merchadise they have sold, also the money they get for just showing up to places. Sig hanson gets $1 million a year for being on the deadliest catch show, not really chump change there. Plus in that situation Sig has nothing to sell to the watching public, Reggie would. The Teutuls from OCC are worth combined almost 50 million, not chump change there either.

And considering fountain powerboats is worth nothing and Im sure RF isnt either at this point. million bucks could go a long way.

And if you did research celebrity net worth is pretty accurate.

Pier 57 has been approched by 2 different reality show producers wanting to do a reality show about us and the poker runs we do and also the boats we sell.. We thought long and hard about it and came to the conclusion, Who the hell wants a camera crew following you around filming EVERYTHING you do... Not Pier 57..:drink::drink:

Was there much Direct money it doing it or more of a "you could make money from the exposer"?

Yanking Chains
 

soldier4402...if nothing else you've yanked a lot of chains with this thread.
When I first read this I thought to myself...Why in the world would Reggie ever consider doing anything like this? Not because it's hoaky or beneth him. But, because his primary business is designing, developing and building new boats for high-end customers. He does have a retrofit/rebuild division, but there's a big difference between rebuilding a $30/40K end product car(which I admit Foose is really great at doing) and Retrofitting/Rebuilding a $300/500K boat. I'm not just talking about the money...I'm talking about the logistics, time line (7 days for a car-vs-70++ days for a boat) and so on. I don't know Reggie and I don't even pretend to know what he is thinking, but I can't imagine he would want to spend his time doing this instead of what He obviously loves doing...being on the leading edge of High Performance Boat design and development. Just my 2 cents.:drink::drink::drink:

No just more of an idea really. I mean but what comes down to is exposure and money, from what i looks like RF, fountain, bi little reggie could probably use a little of both. You dont have to do 300-500k boats i mean those are your 42's and up anyways. The majority have 27-35, and retrofit a boat like that would not take two months a boat load of money,

Like I said people are keeping things longer and getting them fixed, not continually buying new. Why miss out on a huge market? From being looking OSO I would gather the average age of a boat in here is probably about a 1998.

I see one big problem, trying to get across to people that he is redoing FOUNTAINS but wanting them to buy from his current company RF.

People wouldn't get it.

You are right there. But it doesnt have to be reggie, it could be junior doing it with Fountain. Just a broad based idea here guys, I dont know the technicalities here.

I'd rather see a program based on a classis retrofit. something like the Shadow Cat that Prostock85 bought and he posted some pictures during the early stages of a long project that probably include a myriad of yet to be found issues that will require decisions affecting other decisions etc..
Actually could have a beutifully restored boat at the end or a fiberglass hulk sitting in the backyard depending on how the project goes.

There have been a couple exceptional Cigarette flat deck restro's that would have been great to watch.

Actually seeing Reggie and crew do a Fountain it may look to easy !

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Where is the "lock thread" smiley/gif when you need it? LOL