How have you been Charlie?
The boat never did make it over by Tony. Eventually Bruce came to terms with the fact that the whole deal was dragged out long enough. He made a sweet "as is" reduction in the price with his word to make good on the engines if there are any issues.
Brad and I both agree that the issues fall on 18 years of varnish from the tank hitting the filters.
It made for some anxious moments when word slipped out and others made a run at it.
There had been an offer made sight unseen for a considerable amount more than our agreed price, but the old fella turned it down because he had given me his word that it was mine.
Ya have to respect someone who still has values.
I guess it was just meant to happen. After all those years I looked for it without the slightest lead, his son stumble on to our Vice boat fb page and dropped it in my lap. He had no intention of selling it for fear it wouldn't be kept original, but decided to let me have it because I knew the significance of the numeral 2 on the transom.

The most common phrase I hear is "That boat is the reason I'm in the sport" :)
The first time I seen her scream across the screen, I turned to my girlfriendat the time and told her, one day I'm gonna have one of those.
Who knew?
I wanted to find this particular boat because it was the only screen used boat with butterfly hatches like my Vice edition has.
When we were at Volo, Michael and I went to lunch and one of the topics of conversation was the insurgence of new fan base amongst younger generations since the show has gone into syndication. He sees it in his fan mail and I see it on our fb page for the boats.
I was amazed at that amount of little kids that dragged their parents down the dock to see the Mini Vice at Boyne Thunder.

Congrats! Sounds like you have been searching for a while.

Congradulatoins on a cool boat and find. Enjoy her, there great looking boats.

What is the back story on this boat's history? Looks like you are the guy for the boat and it's needed restoration!

Iconic boat indeed!
Glad to see one not getting cut up and parted out.

Super cool!! Thanks for sharing. Good luck with the resto and look forward to seeing the progress.

Chasing its history has been half the fun, but that's gonna take some typing and I'm up against the clock for time right now.
I'll bet that just made Glass Dave laught :D

Congrats!!!!!

Now you need a Dornaus & Dixon Bren Ten