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62 wood
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Posted: January-29-2012 at 11:51am |
heard reserve was 1.2 million, a "bit" out of my budget for a project!
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81nautique
Grand Poobah Joined: September-03-2005 Location: Big Rock, Il Status: Online Points: 5795 |
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No sale, Steve wouldn't budge off $700,000. Cheapskate.
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You can’t change the wind but you can adjust your sails
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Gary S
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Well Steve?? Were you able to out bid Joe? I'll go with you when you go to get it.
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62 wood
Grand Poobah Joined: February-19-2005 Location: NW IL Status: Offline Points: 4527 |
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The boat is supposed to sell around 7:30 Eastern time tonight... you can watch the auction online at Mecum live stream. Also on TV/Velocity channnel.
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davidg
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I watched the video, and I think Pete may have been driving one of those boats from back in his younger days.
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OverMyHead
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I bet Pete will be in the bidding, It would make a big impression on the tubing circuit.
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For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
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81nautique
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You can’t change the wind but you can adjust your sails
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62 wood
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Did you notice the V16's sing at 6 grand! |
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62 wood
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1800 HP and a clothes line on wood spool for steering...
looks like each engine has two magnetos... I need to get a poster made for the shop of those "twins"!!! |
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62 wood
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I'll try and behave.... can have have the first pull at GL? |
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JoeinNY
Grand Poobah Joined: October-19-2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5698 |
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Listen now- I don’t want any of you guys bidding me up on this one like you did when I bought “IX”. I had to sell off my Cayman estate to cover that fiasco good thing that was before the real estate market tanked.
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81nautique
Grand Poobah Joined: September-03-2005 Location: Big Rock, Il Status: Online Points: 5795 |
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Jody, That's #9 the one going to auction is it's predecessor #8.
There's a good article on woodyboater.com about this boat. The boat was repowered years ago and just recently the original hand built Miller v-16's were found and restored. Looks like #9 was repowered along the way too, I would guess it probably had Packard v-12 originally. |
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You can’t change the wind but you can adjust your sails
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Morfoot
Grand Poobah Joined: February-06-2004 Location: South Lanier Status: Offline Points: 5322 |
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Nice looking set up Jody....I bet she sounds sweet too!
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"Morfoot; He can ski. He can wakeboard.He can cook chicken.He can create his own self-named beverage, & can also apparently fly. A man of many talents."72 Mustang "Kermit",88 SN Miss Scarlett, 99 SN "Sherman"
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TRBenj
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Jody, Steve's link had Miss America VIII, yours appears to be Miss America IX. Cool boats! |
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Fl Inboards
Grand Poobah Joined: January-20-2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2125 |
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Must be two of em probably more copy's. |
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Hobby Boats can be expensive when the hobbyist is limited on their own skill and expertise.
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Jllogan
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8 carbs, yikes, it would be an art to keep it well tuned.
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62 wood
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luch, you put a tower on it, with 32 exhaust stacks, you could roast hotdogs! |
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Luchog
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do you think it would fit a tower?
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The Godfather
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I think that auction is soon down here :)
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Jbear, said to me wow if it was'nt for this site we would never had met for this to happen....
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62 wood
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