Corvette Boat

What a waste of a LS7, come on why put a 13K motor in something slow? I will take that for the RX7 haha.

I can kind of remember how much he sold the 54 for,it was like 1500 or 1800,but your right they were a used car and the new and improved next year model was out.Who wants an old one! These guys grew up in the depression and then went thru the war and were now making some money.It's the same with my generation, a buddy of mine bought a 4 year old lime green AAR Cuda for around 2 grand, we thought he was crazy who knew?

He sold it a few years later and bought a 56,he didn't like how small it was inside and no roll up windows.Out of those two I can remember the 56,so that is the one I wish he kept.

Well maybe they could hlep the corvette boat some more, besides restyling it. They could shove that 620+ HP ZR-1 motor in it.

Gary old pics are great . That pic of your pop and his car is priceless...

Brian I was thinking about you also,good to hear every thing with you is ok.

boat dr wrote: Katrina and Rita gave us a total of 50",what would Yall do with 50"in a week???????????

I think (at least I hope) the Katrina break was a once in lifetime disaster. Hard to imagine we could see that type of devastation even if we were to see 50" in a week. Still, our infrastructure here is not set up for that type of rain, which I know hurricane states could see in any given year. To answer your question, I don't know what we'd do with 50" in a week, but it wouldn't be good.

BKH

Brian, to us down here , your right only a dress rehearsal.Hurricane Danny gave us 12" in 12hrs. w/ the same winds,100+.
Seems Nevada got 2to3 feet in their homes,sad by any account.Levees do breach here too. and when you are below or slightly above sea level that can present a major flood plane......
Katrina and Rita gave us a total of 50",what would Yall do with 50"in a week???????????

Thanks Pat,

Probably wouldn't even be a big storm in parts of the country, but for us, it was a big deal. About 3.5 inches of rain the first 24 hours. Not sure how much it rained yesterday. Also had winds of 50-80mph and gusts up to 100. In our town, mostly an inconvenience, some power outages, trees down, etc. However, in a small town outside Reno, a levee broke and flooded the whole town. Not so good. BKH

Well, I just saw Bu's Corvette boat at the boat show. I didn't care for the boat based upon the photos, and having seen it in person, I like it even less. It was certainly drawing a lot of folks to take a look though. To each his own. BKH

those shelby donzi's are awesome looking though! thats how you do something right...mmmm seeeexy

Nate

TRBenj wrote: 81nautique wrote: even though it's fast for an inboard for an $80,000 penis extension it should be faster. Alan, have you seen any top speed numbers? I didnt see any in that article or anywhere else yet. Im guessing that the 505hp version will get over 60 pretty easily, but thats purely speculation.

Tim, I may be mistaken but I thought someone said mid 50's. IMHO even if it runs low 60's that's still an aweful lot of money for a boat without much purpose. I'd still take it for a spin though.

Actually the description "Corvette" was used of a boat way before it was used of a car.
Always fun to check the dictionary -- Webster's = 1: a warship ranking in the old sailing navies next below a frigate 2: a highly maneuverable armed escort ship that is smaller than a destroyer. (F.1636).
Pretty sure those didn't have tail lights either.
I agree with several here anyway; the old ones look cooler, but I always thought the tail light thing was a little funny. Sort of cool, but more "funny." They (Malibu) might have done better to just do a Vette inspired boat by just mimicking the engine packages and some interior styling. I think most Vette's have a sort of boat like shape already anyway. Look at 'em! I think that was actually part of Zora's idea wasn't it? The Stingray in particular was trying to look like some aquatic thing (a Stingray). I think I've heard that the little air vents (of the older ones) behind the front wheels were supposed to look like the gills of a shark or a ray or something.
Man, how picky I'm getting! To suggest that anything that is sleek, shiny red, and has 400 to 500 hp "isn't pretty cool" just seems "wrong" now that I'm actually thinking about it!?!?!?!??

Now this is a pretty sharp
corvette (corvettes)

Riley wrote: Pete, Imo, Malibu made a nice boat, and a few, particularly the later Sportsters were the best. Unfortunately, once they hit their stride success wise, they started turning out SUV bling boats with horrid color schemes and dropped the classics.

I second that Riley.
Real nice boats to slalom behind too.
I'll also second that the original design Corvettes were far better than that new mess!