- - Cool photo from back in the day!
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pullmytrigger
03-18-2009 09:49 AM
cool....is that a tower of power out back.....???
hammer01
03-18-2009 12:20 PM
Originally Posted by LubeJobs42
(Post 2823489)
When we were kids we had Checkmates and all we did was jump wakes all day! That's where my sickness started. This photo was sent to me today from a childhood friend i haven't spoken to in 30 years. (did I just say 30 years? i can't believe it, i'm ficken old!!) This picture will be either 29 or 30 years old this summer.
Funny stuff Gino, I had the identical boat except with the open bow as a 16 year old kid. We had a ski boom on the back and burned gas 7 days a week on a small ski lake in Illinois. Fun times. It had an 18 gallon tank so a little easier to fill up as well (about $20 bucks back then to fill it up)!!!!! As you said, that was exactly 30 years ago too!!!!!!
dykstra
03-18-2009 08:30 PM
Cool pic!
Spicy
03-19-2009 08:13 AM
Originally Posted by LubeJobs42
(Post 2823489)
When we were kids we had Checkmates and all we did was jump wakes all day! That's where my sickness started. This photo was sent to me today from a childhood friend i haven't spoken to in 30 years. (did I just say 30 years? i can't believe it, i'm ficken old!!) This picture will be either 29 or 30 years old this summer.
Gino too funny... in High School my good friend had a 16' Checkmate with a 90 Merc and we ran around the river wave jumping for many of summers having a blast... following graduaton from high school I bought a 18' Checkmate with a 235 Evinrude, thought I was on top of the world!!!! :evilb: :eek: :ernaehrung004:
C_Spray
03-19-2009 08:28 AM
Originally Posted by pullmytrigger
(Post 2823733)
cool....is that a tower of power out back.....???
Looks like it. I had one in the 80's - they ran strong.
