Post A Pic Of Your Scarab!
08-30-2008 | 06:25 AM
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The service side was dead long before then. One good thing that came out of there was Raymond Roberts who is the owner of Double R Performance. Probably the only good thing when I think about it.
I rmember when Bill Taylor firsy got your boat. The magazine ( power Boating Canada )had a big contest and the prize was a ride on lake Ontario in the boat. I had a 22 foot Indy at the time and was just lanching my boat as they pulled back in with the winners onboard. Sure looked like a huge boat to me then. Then Bill got the first euro styled scarab and sold yours to Brian Ross ( ex pres of snap on Canada, Learning the ropes supercat team, F2 Talkin Tools donzi, multi time national and world champs ) and they repainted and rerigged it. Must have been around 92 or 93? Spent a bucket load and a half $$$$ redoing it.
What condition is it in these days?
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08-30-2008 | 12:56 PM
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From: Fond du Lac, WI Cheeseheads & Kiekhaefer
The performance sales end was the last to go in 02 I believe. My 01 Daytona came from them.
The service side was dead long before then. One good thing that came out of there was Raymond Roberts who is the owner of Double R Performance. Probably the only good thing when I think about it.
I rmember when Bill Taylor firsy got your boat. The magazine ( power Boating Canada )had a big contest and the prize was a ride on lake Ontario in the boat. I had a 22 foot Indy at the time and was just lanching my boat as they pulled back in with the winners onboard. Sure looked like a huge boat to me then. Then Bill got the first euro styled scarab and sold yours to Brian Ross ( ex pres of snap on Canada, Learning the ropes supercat team, F2 Talkin Tools donzi, multi time national and world champs ) and they repainted and rerigged it. Must have been around 92 or 93? Spent a bucket load and a half $$$$ redoing it.
What condition is it in these days?
The service side was dead long before then. One good thing that came out of there was Raymond Roberts who is the owner of Double R Performance. Probably the only good thing when I think about it.
I rmember when Bill Taylor firsy got your boat. The magazine ( power Boating Canada )had a big contest and the prize was a ride on lake Ontario in the boat. I had a 22 foot Indy at the time and was just lanching my boat as they pulled back in with the winners onboard. Sure looked like a huge boat to me then. Then Bill got the first euro styled scarab and sold yours to Brian Ross ( ex pres of snap on Canada, Learning the ropes supercat team, F2 Talkin Tools donzi, multi time national and world champs ) and they repainted and rerigged it. Must have been around 92 or 93? Spent a bucket load and a half $$$$ redoing it.
What condition is it in these days?
I purchased the boat from Brian through Hot Knots. I think Ray was involved in the project. Name sounds familiar. We were up there three times and had met a lot of the guys that were involved...just don't recall all the names after nine years. Not surprised about the demise of Hot Knots. They really jerked us around on some things. We spent a day with Brian and Wilma in 03 when they were here for the power pilgrimage through Mercury. They were pretty excited to learn the boat was in town. Never knew how much the boat meant to them until spending the day with them. We had a blast with them. Brian egged me into high bidder in a silent auction for one of Don Johnson's high impact racing vests. Wilma is a riot. Bill was here also, but never got the chance to meet him. I tried contacting him a couple times to get some early photos of the boat. Talked to his daughter once with a promise of sending some pics, but it never happened. The re & re was in 94. If you go to the Scarab thread http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...d.php?t=186518 post #114 & 116 has info and the article that was done in Bill's magazine about the re & re. Other posts have some current pics as well. Brian told me a final number on the whole project that was astronomical. Pretty much once in a life time find for a turn key boat of that age. As of today she's only had 65 hrs put on it since I purchased it so it's in the same condition as the day I picked it up. Just never any time to play. We did blow the starboard drive and spaghettied the tranny at 9 hrs...contain your chuckle. Mercury covered it as a gear failure. Mel Riggs had a new Velvet Glide on hand, so we sent that and the good tranny down to Tom Huber. Other then that, it's ran flawless.
Last edited by scarab kv; 08-30-2008 at 01:29 PM.
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