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a "Miami Vice" tribute Scarab came up on Facebook Marketplace a few weeks ago: Marketplace - 1988 Wellcraft Scarab 38 kv | Facebook

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Originally Posted by anger mgmt (Post 4932548)

https://youtu.be/nH3Rrgzg7jE?si=4qZVzuPEkDzoAf3T

This the one?

That's the one!! Thank you for that. Great addition to the thread.

We need more offshore boat TV series.

Best we get now...is Haulover vids.

i have seen this ad a while back. I tought the boat looked good from far, but far from good when having the chance to look into the engine room...
i mean it is a salt water boat, you can expect that, but for that kind of money, IMO, it should look much better and cleaner power train wise...

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Originally Posted by bajaman (Post 4932513)

One of the "original" Scarabs was for sale for something like $20M...is this the one you are talking about? There was some discussion about it here, basically people saying you were paying for the provenance/mystique...because yeah, you can find boats of that year and model for one helluva lot less.

No I think the one I’m looking for was a clone. I wish I had $20m for one!

It is highly unlikely that it actually changed hands for $20 million.

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Originally Posted by ScarabViper (Post 4932504)

Oh maybe it could have been scrapped then.

Can’t download your link for some reason not sure why

Thanks for the reply and if you can send the link another way I’ll be sure to take a look

-------- https://miami.craigslist.org/brw/boa/d/hollywood-1988-wellcraft-38kv-scarab/7837759218.html ---------

This boat is an interesting runner for somebody who doesn't care if it came as a 38 KV with the 'Miami Vice Edition' paint job originally.

However, the hull has an okay wrap, but with non-painted matching gunnels and deck it looks non-Miami Vice. That has to be painted

and then one might as well paint the whole thing. Not a small sum of money. The cabin looks cheaply put together and is not even finished

completely. This boat needs to come down quite a bit in price to sell. There are just too many good Apache brand, and Cigarette 38 boats

of newer and much better quality on the market right now for this kind of money. If I absolutely had to have a Scarab with this look or

similar, I'd hunt down a true Team Scarab by Larry Smith 38 or 43 and I'd then know that I got a super high quality build and a boat that

will keep its value if I in the future plowed some coins into it.

A couple of videos of it.

P.S. Speculator, ScarabViper, did You say you're in Europe? If so, there's a ton of very clean, high-performance, offshore boats for sale

in Scandinavia right now. The prices are dramatically better than in the U.S.A. What's your comfortable budget? D.S.

Below photo: Larry Smith's personal 1987 Team Scarab 38. This is the kind of Scarab, if that what it had to be, I'd find.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...4ed6914947.jpg

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Originally Posted by phughes69 (Post 4932706)

-------- https://miami.craigslist.org/brw/boa...837759218.html ---------

Thanks for the link but can’t open it. Can you email it to me at [email protected]
Thanks

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Originally Posted by anger mgmt (Post 4932548)

https://youtu.be/nH3Rrgzg7jE?si=4qZVzuPEkDzoAf3T

This the one?

Great vid thanks 👌🏻

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Originally Posted by larslindroth (Post 4932716)

Yes indeed unfortunately I’m in London but not for much longer if this country keeps going the way it is. You can probably tell by my username what car I drive and what boats I’m in to. So I think I’m meant to live in the US!

Noted your comments on the boat but where is it for sale and what’s the price. Thanks