old magazine reference please! :)

[berk]

hi, can anyone please help me find a picture of a boat in the mag a few years back? it was a low pro v drive bubble deck or similar and the paint was made to look like plates of steel riveted together. i think it also had a checkered flag integrated into it on one side. its the paint scheme i am interested in for another project. any help would be appreciated! thanks - b

[sanger rat]

Are you thinking of Jet Hydro's boat?

[Squirtcha?]

I remember that one. I don't remember a flag, but I do remember the realistic way they did the skin peeling away from the riveted panels. Awesome paint job. For some reason I was thinking it was a hydro v-drive though.

[berk]

could have been i really cant remember, probably since the metal looking paint belied the glass under it! i wish i had kept that issue, but it got lost i think.....

[TrollerDave]

The Nov/Dec 1998 has a 501 Kurti Kraft hydro called Live Wire on the cover with that type of paint. Air Syndicate painted the boat.

[Squirtcha?]

That's the one I was thinking of. Absoutely incredible paint job. I'm usually pretty traditional with paint colors on boats preferring a couple three colors, but that thing was really great and must've cost a fortune to have done.

[berk]

hmmm, i dont remember it being on the cover, but maybe i had a different cover, actually thats too old, i am thinking this was around 02-04 somtime. i couldnt find anything on the Air Syndicate site

[jetboatperformance]

Berk could this have been a Blown jet in silvers,grays ,blues etc ? wild "rivet" graffics" and other hallucinagenic crazy stuff, if so I photoed it in Santa Maria when i bought his other boat circa 2001 or so That boat was painted by some suposedly famous folks in Bakersfield Calif as I remember and was in HB at some point I'll try to dig up the pics Tom

[berk]

thanks! yes i remember some blues, and the boat was photographed in what looked like a garage or somewhere inside where it lives on its trailer probably. septembers mag actually has a boat similar painted on page 90 in the aft section, but i think the one i am thinking was slightly better done.

[502 JET]

This sounds like the boat your describing. Hot Boat magazine Aug. 06 page126. Yes Hot Boat has a magazine.:jawdrop: Sorry about the giant pic.
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/15596Picture_006.jpg

[berk]

thats AWESOME THANKS! however it isnt the one i was thinking of, it was definitely older mag than 06. the rivets were more pronounced and didnt follow the hull lines as closely which made it kinda cool. this is great refference though, so many thanks!

[beerjet]

I wish all women came that way .
-beerjet-

[berk]

you mean headless or in a black bikini? like i say you cant always get them to wear a black bikini, but......:D