Trying to find Miami vice Scarab
08-12-2025 | 02:25 PM
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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
08-12-2025 | 03:10 PM
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We need more offshore boat TV series.
Best we get now...is Haulover vids.
08-12-2025 | 07:46 PM
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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...
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...
08-14-2025 | 04:02 AM
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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.
08-14-2025 | 07:38 AM
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08-14-2025 | 02:15 PM
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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.
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.
08-15-2025 | 04:02 AM
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-------- https://miami.craigslist.org/brw/boa...837759218.html ---------
Thanks
08-15-2025 | 04:03 AM
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08-15-2025 | 04:16 AM
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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hECSU8J-00
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rcufb-QxYzY
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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hECSU8J-00
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rcufb-QxYzY
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.
Noted your comments on the boat but where is it for sale and what’s the price. Thanks
