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LeE ss13
03-28-2004, 06:15 PM
My crew chief called me today and ask me to help idenitfiy this boat he has in his back yard. I've been around V-Drives since the '60s and I've never seen anything like this.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000963-med.jpg
Here's a shot from the rear.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000961-med.jpg
Here's the engine. The mag says "Grant" on top. The firing order is "18736542", I'm guessing Olds by the exhaust patern. It is timed by a hole in the bell housing that is part of the block.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000960-med.jpg
Over the Right deck.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000964-med.jpg
Over the Left Deck.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000965-med.jpg
The Trailer is really trick, it is covered in a fiberglass shell the includes the fenders and the bunks !!!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000967-med.jpg
Whatdayathink ????
21rayson
03-28-2004, 07:32 PM
my guess on the motor that it would be a pontiac motor very popular in that vintage. cool nostaliga boat:D
FlatUgly
03-28-2004, 09:23 PM
gotta love the exhuast
CircleJerk
03-28-2004, 10:46 PM
My guess: Center deck Hallet or Howard?
058
03-28-2004, 10:52 PM
My guess would be a early 60s Howard. Has the same lines as Oldrigger's Howard that he just sold. That exhaust is definitly 50s:yuk: and ya gotta love the whitewalls :D The ignition is most likely a Grant "Flamethrower"
Kurtis500
03-28-2004, 11:01 PM
Looks like a 62-63 Spico to me. I used to own one and it looks VERY similar. That boat IS nostalgic in about every way. 389 Pontiac was the popular set-up then along with those exhausts. Dont think that flame arrestor was around back then.
Brodie
03-28-2004, 11:14 PM
Dang.
That s a 59-61 Sanger. Moter is a Pontiac 394.
Nice. Lemme know if shes for sale,,,,
It lookes like Sanger-Boy wont sell the bubbel deck to me?
I nee da new boat
LeE ss13
03-29-2004, 04:24 AM
Thanks guys... I'll see if he wants to sell it. He has clear title on the boat and trailer, but the boat hasn't been register since 1980. The guy says it over heats since he took the wet manifolds off and put the zoomies on. Judging by the way he plumbed it I can see why. Check out the ski tow.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/308P1000966-med.jpg
He has the water exits out of the bottom of the engine. The block drains.
RaysonKid
03-29-2004, 04:31 AM
It looks simular to my 63 Howard.
But the rub rail on mine doesnt come up on the rear like that one.
Sangerboy
03-29-2004, 05:25 AM
Originally posted by Brodie
Dang.
Nice. Lemme know if shes for sale,,,,
It lookes like Sanger-Boy wont sell the bubbel deck to me?
Brodie, aren't you like Oxbig's cousin or something? For a long time now I have been admiring his bike from afar. Maybe we could work out some sort of 3 way trade, if he throws in the helmet that could really seal the deal:cool: Call me, SB
Rexone
03-29-2004, 05:37 AM
fuggedaboutit. that helmet's mine of ox ever offs it.
Back Forty
03-29-2004, 06:53 AM
Thats an Olds 394.
Dam. I would love to redo that thing..... I love the exhaust.:)
This is a 394 in a car.
http://www.ak2trvl.com/Olds/mvc-002f.jpg
Hud
03-29-2004, 09:58 AM
Looks like a old Wright to me!
V-Drizzle
03-29-2004, 10:28 AM
The boat screems Hallet to me. Is the boat for sale?
BLOWNDEAVER
03-29-2004, 06:50 PM
IF HE HAS A CLEAR TITLE , WHAT MAN. IS ON IT ??????????????
PE 316
03-29-2004, 07:36 PM
That is NOT a PONTIAC engine in that deal...
Pontiac valve covers have two (2) bolt holes on top and two (2) bolt holes on the bottom...
The one pictured has two (2) on top and THREE (3) on the bottom...
The boat looks very SANGERish to me... (kinda HOWARDish as well)
LeE ss13
03-30-2004, 01:02 AM
Originally posted by BLOWNDEAVER
IF HE HAS A CLEAR TITLE , WHAT MAN. IS ON IT ??????????????
"SPCTN" Special Contruction. A lot of Boats in California were registered like that, especially when you bought a bare hull and did the installation several years later.
smalls
03-30-2004, 06:27 AM
A lurker to That its a 64 Kinsvader. He said he had the same boat...
LeE ss13
03-30-2004, 01:38 PM
To all those PMing me about this boat, I am in Washington DC on business, but will be back in SoCal Friday night. I will see if he wants to sell this and I will hook you up. I think he kind of inherited it from someone in a trade. He was just asking me about the overheating problem, he is not normally a boat person.
LeE ss13
04-04-2004, 07:46 AM
Turns out the boat is a 1965 Kalawain. Guy does not want to sell it, but I'm going over today to try to talk him out of it. He may be interested in a trade. I think he just wants to have a boat to play with for the summer. He tends to be kind of hard on his toys, so I would hate to see him break something irreplaceable. We'll see.