Speak for yourself Rob! There's a reason Tim has my old 24 in a million pieces! :D

As the dirt track boys say... Elbows up and hammer down!

sean, you treat your wife better than your 28? lol

btw, my boat got treated to the best it could.

If I didn't, I wouldn't have a 28 for long! Ask Cattitude... :D

I treat that boat exactly like Pepe would! :cool-smiley-027:

That's a pretty fair assessment of where I meant to go with that.

Yeah there's a reason, by the time I get completely done with this (in a few years) I just might have that 200K into it:D - and have a smile on my face about it.

I don't imagine in 1980 that ANYONE in the boating industry was working on such small details as what I mentioned, but I don't remember, I was 9 yrs. old. That is something that has evolved into this industry. I don't think there is anything wrong with bringing some of those details into this old-school boat as I work on her.
The boat didn't NEED to be torn down, but she was showing almost 30 years of doing exactly what she was built to do. It's just cosmetics that I wanted to bring back.

There is a reason we hold these boats in such high regard, and there is a reason that those Damn Swede's are snatching up what little stock of them are available:D Notice, Magne was already on this one before the thread came up.

Oh, and Pepe - please keep posting, I always like reading your posts.

Well, we wouldn't want to know Sean as a wife-beater:D

These boats were built to run hard, and that is exactly the way they should be run:cool-smiley-011:

Let's not forget the Titanic,
it was guaranteed NOT to _ _ NK !

Does anybody has a couple of vowels for sale?

Like Mr. Harvey would say......
and now you know the rest of the story !
pp.

Of course, know your limitations.

OMG someone else is bothered by this stuff too.

A Pantera will outlast several sets of engines and drives, Mercruiser should be upping the ante here.

There seems to be a trend here.
So far just as many Pantera owners are as anal about things as I am.
Maybe that is why we all chose a Pantera.
Chris - I spent my entire evening tonight fabricating new inner transom exhaust rings.
As you know, they are barely visible - none the less, I think they came out pretty well.
Here's old, new, and the flat sheet stock I started with.
Again, probably the wrong place to post this, but we're all family down here, right??

"OMG"? More like "OCD"! You guys are nuts! :D Which way is "backwards" on the toilet paper roll? I'm still laughing about this thread. You guys are hilarious!