What's a good price for a 28' Pantera??
 

I've got a question for the pros and general power boating crowd out there. I am thinking of selling my Pantera 28' and getting a 26' MercPanga with a diesel. We opened up a bar/restaurant and I want to run my boat on the left over cooking oil- might sound crazy to some of you( we own an eco-resort), but it's what I want to do! My main question, and the opinions I'd like to get, concern what I could sell the Pantera for. It's a 1999, all white, twin 6.2's (240 hours), full MM steering, K-planes, sea Strainers, and all composite seat bases. It's in good but not perfect shape and has been lift stored. I owe $48 on the boat and will keep it before taking a big loss. So the question is....what will this boat bring?

AUSTIN i have seen pic of your boat on here befor looked very good , as for the cooking oil doesnt sound crazey to me wished i could use it ,$9 a gallon here in the uk ,You prob know this allready but a few guys looking for panteras on the other site, ps if you pull any skiers they may smell a bit greasy at the end of the day LOL

Paul,

"Conch Fritter" would be the best cologne for around here! We may have stumbeled on a new business here... great taste with no calories!

I hate to say it, but getting $48K for that boat will be tough, probably closer to $30K

The owner of my old 28 Pantera just sold it for 28k. It was a 1997 6 pac boat with a Brand New 700 HP Chief motor,new Xdrive,Headers, ect.ect. Market suxs for everything!!

I'm thinking your going to be owning it for awhile......like rchevelle I'm thinking low $30's at best in the states but don't know what the market in the Bahamas might bring.

Any body with a MercPanga Diesel for a partial trade? Or any diesel ....

Love the Pantera so it won't be so bad to keep it either- but I'd rather just own one boat at a time!

I don't think you could sell it for what you owe. Maybe 40k if you are lucky.

Austin there was a guy just up the road from me who was cleaning all the old oil from restaurant and selling it as a buisness ,his worksholooked like nassa labboratory i never used it myself but he said not all motors like to run on it, i think he ment if they are too hi tec ,he told me the older motors run on it just fine he said if i were to ever use it in my van try 50/50 mix . good luck with the sale of your pantera

I think you are in the 35-38K range for your boat, on a side note a friend of mine has been talking to a buyer from the bahamas on his 28' Nordic, is there a big market for a 28' go fast over there? seems more like a center console fish boat market. This guy is kinda dicking around so I'm still not convinced he's not a scammer.

Austin,

Considering how poor the resale market currently is how about a compromise? Convert the Pantera to run on bio-diesel, create a graphics package that indentifies with (or creates) the brand image of your eco-resort, and find a way to write the conversion expenses off as marketing expenditures.
If you can get people to relate seeing the boat with your resort
and hopefully remember that "even that cool pantera runs off ______"

Just an idea and I make no claims as to the quality of this idea... :)

Powerquest,
I've got gas motors in now, so as far as I know, I'd have to throw diesels in there and transmissions.... $$$$ . The Pantera already gets just over 2MPG at 40mph so it's not all that bad on gas.

+1,

My 99 with 502 mags sold for less than 45 in 05.

Austin, I understand why you would use bio-diesel , but have you looked at outboards. P antera built a sharp boat w/ 300xs, last year. "HIGH LIFE"

Way to be creative. Always good to write things off if we can.

High Life,

I think outboards use more fuel. Small displacement maxed out because they don't have the torque for the job of pushing a heavy boat around. Every outboard powered center console in the 30' size range I've seem around here get's around 1.1MPG .... I get 2.2 with the inboards- plus they ride better. Outboards are easier to maintain.

It's blowing 30knots here today and I need to go to town ... happy to have the Pantera this morning!

Question for Austin
 

Austin -

When the late Ron Doller sold my 34 Coyote back in the late 90's, we sold it to a guy named Darrington Brown in the Bahamas who was going to put outboards on the boat. Do you have any knowledge of my old Coyote or Darrington?

O.C., I don't ... do you know what island he was on?

Island
 

No Austin I don't, I figured I'd ask, I appreciate you responding.