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Live your 80's Florida coke dreams...

Discussion in 'General' started by ChemGuy, Mar 5, 2025.

  1. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

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  2. tony 340

    tony 340 Well-Known Member

    Buying its the easy part. Wait til u gotta put fuel in it, insure it, and replace the drives
     
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  3. ToofPic

    ToofPic Well-Known Member

    I wanted a big v8 Python back in those days. An endless hole of money, but man they sounded great in a quiet calm cove starting up.
     
  4. rd400racer

    rd400racer Well-Known Member

    I don't have to buy it, I lived it. This is me at the helm bringing in 2 of them that we "busted" when I was in Marathon. I say busted because we never actually caught one in my 3 years there, they just left them at the dock after unloading the cargo, we just brought them back. Customs in Miami got to keep them. Would have helped us to have one but noooo.


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  5. Rebel635

    Rebel635 Well-Known Member

    When did you realize that the “war on drugs” was never meant to be won?
     
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  6. rd400racer

    rd400racer Well-Known Member

    I was 21 years old and the captain of a $2 million dollar boat, I didn't give two shits about the war on drugs. That wasn't even a catch phrase when I was in. I was having a good time:D
     
  7. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    Have you heard the stories of the rumrunners during prohibition....a guy building boats in New England with WWI V12 liberty engines...they were so fast and could out run the CG, the CG hired him to build them some boats...he made sure they were just a bit slower than the other guys boats...lol.
     
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  8. rd400racer

    rd400racer Well-Known Member


    That's hilarious, I love it! My wife lived in Miami when I was dating her, and her apartment complex was right by the Customs holding area. I remember riding by there seeing them destroy boats and cars, all I could think is what a waste. My boat topped out at 26 knots, we weren't catching shit!:D
     
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  9. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    There are some pretty good youtube channels talking about the early 80s offshore PB scene, and where A LOT of those guys got their money and ummmmm experience in driving boats fast....LOL. I was a little to young to be in the peak 80's time but man it was cool watching these guys blast around offshore spending cubic dollars per minute.

    If you watched any of those races and didnt want a 40'+ Cigarette, Donzi, Fountain, etc with a pair of blown Big Blocks and Arnson surface drives...there would have been something wrong with you.
     
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  10. rd400racer

    rd400racer Well-Known Member


    We went to Key West in 82 and 83 and watched the races from Mallory Square. I've got old Kodak pics of it somewhere. The coolest part was they all had helicopters following them, the same kind that TC flew in Magnum PI. What a scene! And my aunt (that was only 10 years older than me) lived in Ft Lauderdale and hung out with all the powerboat racers (she was a wild chick). They had money to burn.

    Now I'm going to talk some shit:D I was a cocky fuck back then, and I swear I could have driven those boats just as good as those pros given the chance. I took a way shittier boat through a hell of a lot more ocean than those guys ever saw. Yeah, I was going a lot slower, but it's all about reading the waves, which I was damn good at. I'd like to have seen them traversing through a tropical storm:D Alas I was just a poor dumb sailor, I didn't have daddy money.
     
  11. Chip G

    Chip G Well-Known Member

    Time capsule there. Hopefully the new owner keeps it just like it is. I wouldn't be mad about a Bravo drive swap
     
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  12. Linker48X

    Linker48X Well-Known Member

    This must be the boat equivalent of “ran when parked”:
    “NOTE: The Boat has not been in the water, or run for 10 years, so it will require complete system maintenance prior to any operation. The Boat ran, and operated as it should on it’s last outing. ”
     
  13. MGM

    MGM Well-Known Member

    Maybe they didn’t program the camera right, but one of those pics says 2007. I’d bet the boat looks different (not better) today.
     
  14. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    I saw that..based on what they said about it sitting 10 years...I think those are old pics....but thats what it could look like.

    My guess it sells for $15K...parts pricing
     
  15. MGM

    MGM Well-Known Member

    Much like many airplanes, they could give it to you and you’ll still end up massively upside down.
     
  16. pickled egg

    pickled egg Well-Known Member

    Sounds like a Delta flight…
     
  17. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    Only if you let the girl drive it.
     
  18. pickled egg

    pickled egg Well-Known Member

    I’m not a biologist.
     
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  19. tl1098

    tl1098 Well-Known Member

    Or a supreme court justice
     
  20. baitdragger

    baitdragger Well-Known Member

    Wouldn’t take it for Free + a case of beer to the buyer.
     

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