Sweet stars and stripes on ebay.

mc

Yeah, what he said.

Jesus, have another beer 79, The George Jetson space pod dashboard (ugly as hell)came out in 83-84 so the years probably right and it has no wood stringers to worry about. The boat should pull some decent money.

I might even place a bid and bring it to Green lake next year

haha nice Jbear

You guys are fast approaching the IQ level of some of "THE OTHER" sites with all the nice, colorful, wonderful language being used. Don't ruin a nice thing we got here over a stupid MC boat.

IIRC, Marshall has a 340 in his boat not a BB.

79nautique wrote: Coming from a used car salesman I would expect that you where full of sh*t and don't know what the fuc your talking about. So what it's got a big block Mopar so does Marshal's and his looks way better than that POS and is a CC as well. Your so Fuc'n stupid you don't even know what a stars and stripes model is jack ass, just because it has stars down the side doesn't mean sh*t they all did in that era dumb ass. A stars and stripes is a special red, white and blue model from the 70's so go fuc yourself clown, talk about something that you know because you sure as hell don't know much making the comment that you did.

79nautique wrote: full of sh*t and don't know what the fuc your talking about. Your so Fuc'n stupid jack ass, sh*t dumb ass go fuc yourself clown

WOW........... !!

if nothing else, I'm pretty impressed with his way around the filter that blocks the word f**k. A whole new world is opening for 79....haha

Nate

nates78ski wrote: if nothing else, I'm pretty impressed with his way around the filter that blocks the word f**k. A whole new world is opening for 79....haha Nate

Nate, I don't know if Chris's spelling was intentional. We all know he isn't the greatest speller. Of coarse nether am I!! The only other thing I can say is, that no matter how he spells something, he does get his point across to people.

could have used spaces could have used ph been there done that know all the ways around the sh*t spelled it the way I wanted to. at least it's got you guys typing for a change

Nate: Enjoy your set, cool off in the water, grab a cold one or two and continue to post here.

john

I have been watching this thread - and I have been reluctant to join in, but here goes:

Billy (boat dr) - I was with you right up until that last line (thought I was hearing dueling banjos...lol)

Anyway, I happen to have come into possesion of a 1979 MasterCraft 190 Skier that has the Stars and Stripes motif. The boat is light blue with dark blue metalflake accent, and red stripes. I counted 39 stars between the hull, doghouse and backrest.

The title lists the model as a 190 Stars and Stripes Skier. I called MC, gave them them the HIN - they said "Oh, you have a blue 1979 Stars and Stripes". I posted on the MC site asking what I had, they told me I have a blue 1979 Stars and Stripes.

What do I know? Probably less than the guys here, at MC and at the MC site. I also know I like my 78 SkiTique better than the 79 MC - but it is still a cool-ass boat.

And it is a Stars and Stripes.

Mike

no one ever accused the mastercraft guys of being overly bright and just because they all call them stars and stripes editions because the have stars down the side which they all did in the begining doesn't mean it's the real deal.

Guess you had to be old enough and actually seen and ridin in the real deal to know the difference, When I was growing up they where always called pro stars and still had the stars and stripe graphics but where never called stars and stripes editions.That was for the special edition they did for one year and one year only marking the bi-centinial year of 1976.

I'll see if my freind Beth still has a picture of our buddies boat that was the real deal.

Not that it matters, and I'm certainly not an expert regarding MC, however . . .

I don't know the first year MC put stars on its boats. The orginal in 68 was a solid redish hull with a white deck. Sometime in the early 70s, MC had a red, white, and blue stars and stripes motif. I believe this is the "real stars and stripes" of which 79 nautique refers. It was a popular color configuration at that time (Evel Knievel used a similar motif on his motorcycles and jumpsuits). Mastercraft continued to use the stars on its boats through 1985. The official name of these boats was "Skier" or "Tournament Skier" however, most people then and now continue to refer to MCs through 1985 as "stars and stripes."

MC has continued to use the Star motif on its special edition boats including its 25th anniversary edition (93), 30th (98), and 35th (2003). The 93 anniversary edition physically says "Stars and Stripes" on its side.

The first MC model known as "Prostar" was in 1987.

BKH