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I grew up in Northern Indiana in the 70’s. Back then jet boats and V-drives were all over the St Joe river.
Still remember in high school our metal shop teacher bought a mustang shaker hood scoop off me and my buddy. We took it to his house after school one day, when we rolled up he had a Superbird in the drive. We thought that was cool, till we seen the blown Hemi flat bottom behind it! That’s when we knew we had a cool teacher. Anyway still hooked on boats, this is our backyard this morning. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...74f1236c7.jpeg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...f953c24de.jpeg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...a4024e470.jpeg A tree on the way in yesterday, thought it looked cool. |
It`s all perspective
The jet boat is a dream to own. Change oil and 8 plugs in the spring and fall. All year it`s just Gas and go . $150 in gas gets you all a weekends worth of boating. The cig is A LOT , more work , $$ , sweat and pain. The facebook forums are full of guys complaining how much work and fuel cost a jet boat is .. I laugh. |
Those 25 gallon tanks will kill your budget.
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Originally Posted by Brad Christy
(Post 4893244)
Bajaman,
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...91904912c.jpeg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...a2f9e2270.jpeg https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...8043fce33.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...628f7888e.jpeg Custom gelcoat, bassboat sparkle flake brown and gold. I can remember my dad and step mom scrawling sketches of the “graphics” on paper at one point in time. It never officially had a name, but dad always referred to it as “Piece by Piece”. It all started with the purchase of the blower out of the Trading Post for $50, still rough cast, right out of a semi. Dad slowly assembled everything over the course of a year or so, parts here, parts there, built the interior in my grandmothers garage, had local engine guys build the engine, “Ohio” George Montgomery being one of them. Had a local machine shop make the prop shaft. Dad was an advertising salesman for the YellowPages, so he was very resourceful when it came to “having a guy”. That’s me, the little black headed kid in the front passenger seat in the bottom pic, age in the single digits. Dad built it in ‘76. 900HP initially, and about 85MPH. We pulled five slaloms out with it a couple times, just to do it. At the time, there were only a handful of boats on Cumberland that could keep up with us, one of them a friend of my dads with a 22’ Shiada with a twin turbo 482 V-drive and a 3sp Lenko transmission (:eek:). THAT….. was a beast. Thanks. Brad. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...7c8b77ea4.jpeg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...51cc8336c.jpeg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...18f6ec3b9.jpeg https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...f88016e40.jpeg |
Towing it with an Econoline. Love it!
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