Anyone ever hear of predator marine
 

I'm looking at a 1990 predator marine mongoose 244 but never heard of them if anyone has any helpful info that would be great

Bob Metzler bought out Jim Klym, notorious builder of " Klem Gems " (Magnum splashes), and Predator was born.

MIC: PRD Status: Inactive
Company: PREDATOR MARINE Company Official: METZLER, R
Parent Company: Parent MIC:
Address: 16834 CHESTERFIELD City: E. DETROIT
State: MI Zip: 48021
Country: Phone: 3137730035
Fax: In Business: Thursday, September 22, 1988
Out of Business: Friday, December 12, 1997 Date Modified: Monday, November 02, 1998
Type: Inboards, Cabin Cruisers
Inboard/Outboard, Sterndrive, Inboard/Outdrive



See also: Lake St Clair Magnums, Aero, Lancer, Marine Dynamics, Klym, Klem, Clem

Are the hulls any good anything I should know about them

You should spend your morning using the search function for the terms I added in my last reply and then consider a survey before plunking down money.

I have a guy with one on a local lake here, saw it for the first time yesterday. Nice looking boat in the water. Maybe a bit more crude and spartan (by design) than the likes of my formula. Like more of an all business purpose built race boat?

I'm guessing you're talking about the one in Grosse Ile... You may also want to check for Aero on CL, there's a red and white one in White Lake. Same hull, different name, has a trailer, looks to be well cared for. There's also a 265 Seebold Eagle in Lake Orion for $10.9k.

I'll say this- those Klem splashes were hit and miss on build quality, and I don't think all of them were "arrow straight" hulls. The 24 was an Excalibur splash, I think. Sold as Cheetah, Panther, Aero, etc. Similar to Pantera, P&D, Jaws, etc. in hull design.

Edit- h2oboater is online and should be along shortly to school the unitiated on the intricacies of the Klem Gems.

True that, i have seen really good ones and really bad ones. Seems Klym also got a lot of his rigging hardware from home depot lol

Dave SO TRUE !! Mark