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phughes69 09-30-2013 11:46 AM


Originally Posted by stingrayrat (Post 4003802)
1987 38kv for sale in Indiana trader paper , located in Belmont Michigan 616,890,3397 repainted

Is there a link to this ad? What trader paper?

Drake22.250 09-30-2013 02:47 PM

Just posted the listing in general. Make the call looks sweet 25,000 obo

Fenderjack 09-30-2013 03:11 PM

There was one in the middle river MD area a few years back. My father and me looked at it. Boat was nice but def needed TLC, one engine was puked.

John jr

Drake22.250 09-30-2013 07:04 PM

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One from Michigan. [ATTACH=CONFIG]508994[/ATTACH]

Drake22.250 09-30-2013 07:11 PM

Know of one that is or identical to post #14. Pm me and I will get you his information.

phughes69 09-30-2013 10:47 PM

Here is your ad Drake.
http://www.autorv.com/browse.aspx?AdName=CMWLI8325065

That boat was on CL about 2-3 months ago for the same price

boatme 10-01-2013 05:25 AM


Originally Posted by Drake22.250 (Post 4004587)
One from Michigan. [ATTACH=CONFIG]508994[/ATTACH]

Is that the old "Double Vision" boat ?? if so it was a mess many years ago

way2fast 10-01-2013 07:08 AM


Originally Posted by boatme (Post 4004804)
Is that the old "Double Vision" boat ?? if so it was a mess many years ago

I believe that is formerly double vision..... unbelievable how much a color scheme can detract from such an attractive boat!

scarab kv 10-01-2013 07:47 AM


Originally Posted by Captain Nick (Post 4003808)
That would be one sweet boat to have. If you do get the boat. You could actually dress up as Don Johnson's character Sonny Crockett while driving the boat. A must have a course the Miami Vice Soundtrack. I wish you the best of luck.

Randy beat him to the dress up part lol

scarab kv 10-01-2013 07:51 AM


Originally Posted by way2fast (Post 4004844)
I believe that is formerly double vision..... unbelievable how much a color scheme can detract from such an attractive boat!

Yes that is the old Double Vision

scarab kv 10-01-2013 07:53 AM

Original Double Vision pics will be on the fb page in a couple days

boatme 10-01-2013 11:27 AM

That baot used to have bottom paint

Owner left the thing sit in the water unprotected back in the 90's

I owned my KV while Double Vision was around the same area We used to call DOuble vision the ugly evil twin LOL

Wow that boat was a mess for many years I hope the new owner makes it look right again

kubelwagonman 10-06-2013 11:15 PM

my "endangered species" repainted vice boat.....not sure how to post link...item no 221294090594,if it doesnt make rerserve again ill be posting on here in classified,,,,,[email protected] for more info

way2fast 10-06-2013 11:51 PM


Originally Posted by sprink58 (Post 3857237)
I love the Facebook Page....takes me back to before "Vice".

I have lived in SE Florida since '76..and lived in Dade and Broward Counties during the '70's and '80's. Before Miami Vice, South Miami Beach was a sewer. Old run down Art Deco hotels, Pimps and Whores running the streets with derelicts and Drug Pushers. No body went south of the Fontainebleau and all of the Beach was past it's glory days when Sinatra, Martin and the Rat Pack were headliners at the Eden Roc and Fountainbleu.

Then Michael Mann sold the Pilot to NBC....Don Johnson standing on the steps of the "Carlisle" on Ocean Drive...watching some break dancer with a Boom Box. He turned to Jimmy Smits and said "Five Thousand Street Corners in Greater Miami ...and Gumby here has to pick ours!"

That was the beginning of the resurrection of South Miami Beach. After Season one finished in 1984 there was a real estate boom in South Beach that is still running crazy 30 years later. Miami Beach owes it all to Don Johnson, Michael Mann and Wellcraft Scarab 38 KV's

http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/KV%20Scarab%203.jpg


Thanks for that trip back in time you should be a write stories!!
Thats a big call about a state owing its success and saving from a derelict state all to one man he should be more recognised...... then again I am his biggest fan but even I know he was/is a bit of a rat bag!

315duramax 10-24-2013 07:51 PM

there was a 38kv for sale in MI for 15 grand. just sold when i texted him about it. color was changed. but color still looked pretty sweet. anyone know of it?

Powerquest_Baby!! 10-25-2013 01:22 AM

Not a Miami vice design but for $30k not a bad buy...
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psf73274eb.jpg

http://fortmyers.craigslist.org/lee/boa/4113139117.html

way2fast 10-25-2013 09:02 AM

ha I know that boat well I had a go at buying it ,,, its a wreck steer clear it had moisture and the floor was rotted through...
I got him down to 22k so this guy would have payed 25 max and hes got 30 on it!! can do waaaay better! not a kv anyway only a 377

way2fast 10-25-2013 09:02 AM


Originally Posted by 315duramax (Post 4016665)
there was a 38kv for sale in MI for 15 grand. just sold when i texted him about it. color was changed. but color still looked pretty sweet. anyone know of it?


read back this thread.

Powerquest_Baby!! 10-25-2013 09:28 AM


Originally Posted by way2fast (Post 4016883)
ha I know that boat well I had a go at buying it ,,, its a wreck steer clear it had moisture and the floor was rotted through...
I got him down to 22k so this guy would have payed 25 max and hes got 30 on it!! can do waaaay better! not a kv anyway only a 377

I assume your talking about the one in Michigan?

315duramax 10-25-2013 05:38 PM


Originally Posted by Powerquest_Baby!! (Post 4016890)
I assume your talking about the one in Michigan?

i think hes talking about the florida boat. texted the guy and said he traded it for an airplane... thats a decent trade haha

JetJock 10-26-2013 07:09 PM


Originally Posted by 315duramax (Post 4017124)
i think hes talking about the florida boat. texted the guy and said he traded it for an airplane... thats a decent trade haha

Depends on the airplane! I have owned several of both......I guess I never learn! IF IT FLIES, FLOATS, or F#$CKS its cheaper to rent!

315duramax 10-26-2013 07:16 PM


Originally Posted by JetJock (Post 4017522)
Depends on the airplane! I have owned several of both......I guess I never learn! IF IT FLIES, FLOATS, or F#$CKS its cheaper to rent!

ya, he sent me pics, and depending what that plane was worth... but damn even at 15g that woulda been a deal of a life time... was super clean. with trailer and boat slip. coulda got him to 10 on it. changed the paint and flipped it for 60 to the right buyer. or 35-40 as is. boat was NICE. who ever got it got a nice nice boat

scarab kv 11-06-2013 11:54 AM


Originally Posted by Drake22.250 (Post 4004587)
One from Michigan. [ATTACH=CONFIG]508994[/ATTACH]

The boat just went up on a one day auction
This is the old Double Vision boat

http://auction.repocast.com/details.cfm?ID=1468189

scarab kv 11-06-2013 10:04 PM

Sold for $18,025

befu 11-07-2013 09:08 AM


Originally Posted by scarab kv (Post 4022987)
Sold for $18,025

plus 13% auction commission = $20,368 for the buyer. Doesn't seem like a bad deal, I thought about it last night but then the thought of having to find a 38' trailer in the next 7 days and explain that much cash on the credit card to the wife just didn't sound as cool. I am really liking the size of my 272 for the boating around here and it will do just fine in lake Michigan than few times a year I get it up there. Maybe someday I will get my scarab.

Brian

JetJock 04-13-2014 02:59 PM

Still trying to located a Vice Edition 38KV up in Maine....and one in the LOTO area? Any leads?

RESTLESS 04-15-2014 05:02 PM

Some one had contacted me about putting mine on the facebook site and I forgot to call him back and lost his number. Sorry about that if it was one of you guys. Give me a shout if yoiu see this. I'm the one with the MV boat in Greenville NC that I purchased a couple years ago from Jim Launder. Same one that has all the good youtube footage. Just had the motors serviced so she's ready to get wet.
-Craig

JetJock 04-15-2014 05:08 PM


Originally Posted by RESTLESS (Post 4106972)
Some one had contacted me about putting mine on the facebook site and I forgot to call him back and lost his number. Sorry about that if it was one of you guys. Give me a shout if yoiu see this. I'm the one with the MV boat in Greenville NC that I purchased a couple years ago from Jim Launder. Same one that has all the good youtube footage. Just had the motors serviced so she's ready to get wet.
-Craig

Craig,

It was Wayne and I will let him know when I get back stateside tomorrow.

Randy

scarab kv 04-16-2014 09:44 AM


Originally Posted by RESTLESS (Post 4106972)
Some one had contacted me about putting mine on the facebook site and I forgot to call him back and lost his number. Sorry about that if it was one of you guys. Give me a shout if yoiu see this. I'm the one with the MV boat in Greenville NC that I purchased a couple years ago from Jim Launder. Same one that has all the good youtube footage. Just had the motors serviced so she's ready to get wet.
-Craig



Originally Posted by JetJock (Post 4106976)
Craig,

It was Wayne and I will let him know when I get back stateside tomorrow.

Randy

Yes it was me. Cell is 920 904 2551

315duramax 04-16-2014 10:47 AM


Originally Posted by JetJock (Post 4105654)
Still trying to located a Vice Edition 38KV up in Maine....and one in the LOTO area? Any leads?

Not sure about Loto or Maine... But a friend of mine lives up in lake George NY... And he CLAIMS there is one up on the lake... Also, the guys I work for claim
To have done work on a mint MV KV that is stored up at Bonnie castle in Alex bay on the 1000 islands.. But I've personally never seen it and I've been up there my whole life.. Maybe this helps at all for a northern boat?

38vice 04-19-2014 09:15 AM

This boat is now in Greenville NC,It was owned by Jim in Lake Erie. I restored her in NY and was kept up at Bonnie Castle.Good to here she will be back in the water this year. Hope to see some Photos. Keep up the good work Craig.I am currently restoring the Betty Cook 1979 US1 KAAMA boat in Ft Myers Fl. Tom

scarab kv 04-19-2014 11:39 PM


Originally Posted by 315duramax (Post 4107383)
Not sure about Loto or Maine... But a friend of mine lives up in lake George NY... And he CLAIMS there is one up on the lake... Also, the guys I work for claim
To have done work on a mint MV KV that is stored up at Bonnie castle in Alex bay on the 1000 islands.. But I've personally never seen it and I've been up there my whole life.. Maybe this helps at all for a northern boat?

That would've been the restored season 2 boat. It's now in Mooresville NC

38vice 04-21-2014 05:02 PM

Some one had contacted me about putting mine on the facebook site and I forgot to call him back and lost his number. Sorry about that if it was one of you guys. Give me a shout if yoiu see this. I'm the one with the MV boat in Greenville NC that I purchased a couple years ago from Jim Launder. Same one that has all the good youtube footage. Just had the motors serviced so she's ready to get wet.
-Craig

scarab kv 04-21-2014 08:38 PM


Originally Posted by 38vice (Post 4109030)
This boat is now in Greenville NC,It was owned by Jim in Lake Erie. I restored her in NY and was kept up at Bonnie Castle.Good to here she will be back in the water this year. Hope to see some Photos. Keep up the good work Craig.I am currently restoring the Betty Cook 1979 US1 KAAMA boat in Ft Myers Fl. Tom

Good to hear from you Tom. Interesting project you have under way. Looking forward to seeing it.
Do you have any pics from the Star 1 restoration. I would like to put together an album of the restoration on the Vice Scarab fb page.
Wayne

38vice 04-23-2014 02:54 PM

Hey Wayne, I did the restore myself with lots of help from friends. I will see if I can dig you up some photos.

scarab kv 04-23-2014 03:12 PM


Originally Posted by 38vice (Post 4111107)
Hey Wayne, I did the restore myself with lots of help from friends. I will see if I can dig you up some photos.

That would be great Tom. The boat generates a lot of interest on the fb page. We've had many requests for pics of the restoration. You can send them to me at [email protected]
When do you figure to have the current project finished?
Wayne.

38vice 04-24-2014 05:15 PM

That Wayne is the $100,000 question. Its down in Ft Myers at Thunder Boats. Bob is working on a Cat project with no end in site.

Vice Man 08-20-2016 01:52 AM

I know this is an older thread, but wanted to see if anyone might know of any 38KV Miami Vice Editions that are for sale that aren't major project boats. Would prefer not to have to repaint or repower. Any info would be much appreciated!!

Scarab 38kv 12-14-2016 04:44 PM

Hi...

I have one,I'm considering selling...
Had it for 15 years,its in Sweden..but can be shipped no problem...
Have original 135h...bought it in Spain,and was sold there new..

Let me know..for more info..aint cheep...

br Jimmy

scarab kv 12-15-2016 01:03 AM


Originally Posted by Scarab 38kv (Post 4509637)
Hi...

I have one,I'm considering selling...
Had it for 15 years,its in Sweden..but can be shipped no problem...
Have original 135h...bought it in Spain,and was sold there new..

Let me know..for more info..aint cheep...

br Jimmy

Jimmy, I would like more info on your boat. I have a couple photos that a mutual friend sent to our page, but would like to know the back story on it's history.

Wayne


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