Re: 21 Challenger People
 

Thats the boat!

Since you let the cat out of the bag, the Ark really did smell bad!!!!!!!

GL

Re: An earlier Linder design
 

I head some guy named Luhrs was the stable hand on that trip. :drink: :D :evilb:

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

How did you know?

GL

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

That brown I/O has been through alot. There was a magazine article on the performance change when re-rigging that boat from the I/O to and outboard on a Gil bracket. Than it was returned to an I/O with a V6 and an alpha. Now it wants to be a V8 again.

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

The Brown and Beige one in the background had a 454 in it, hooked to a TRS , it also had a custom Teak engine cover.

Philip

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

George.... Rich..... MORE!!!! MORE !!!!!! The history is AWESOME!!! :D .... Perhaps a new thread about the history and evolution of the Shadow cat ????

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

I had a cat....that cast a big shadow...... as a result George created a breeding program...and came up with the Tiger first, than the Ocelot ( sort of a mistake)...but finally got it right with the Cheetah...... (I always thought the male Lions and George shared the same work ethic).

Later we made boats.

T2x

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

I would guess this was the most copied/popped hull ever .. I can think of a few others but none with so many copies.. the sincerest form of flattery
great work George

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

Ran across this thread and have to chime in here.
I own a 1997 Challenger jet boat, which is really the original molds put together with a 460 BBF in her and a Jucuzzi jet drive.
My father-in-law bought these molds in the early 90's and worked for several years finishing this project off, thus the 1997 vintage.
Mine is a very low slung jet boat style and I'm seriously considering filling the holes adding an outboard and making a fishing boat out of it since I mostly use our Baja for boating.

I love jet boats but in Wisconsin the resale SUCKS and with all the weeds in the lakes they are very impractical to run. Now if I lived on a river....

Re: 21 Challenger People
 

That jet is of no relation.

The brown boat that Tuffboat is referring too, HAD at one point a TRS gimbal in it. I popped the old transom plugs out of the transom when the new owner was gutting the boat to take to Tuff for it's restoration. I wonder if it is the one from above.
Anyone know what happend to Mander?

RT