Finally got some pics from last years excursions...

Haven't had time to download pics yet but will post some soon...the car came with a car alarm with a pager..I took the Duramax to work and let my girlfriend take the National to work since she has assigned covered parking...Well 15min. ago she calls crying saying the car was stolen since the pager was going off and she looked outside and the car was gone!  Now I'm freakin' pissed! She calls it in stolen in the parking lot and the dumbs ass renta fuckin' cop comes up to her and says "The black car?" she says "yea the black car!" The dumb **** says "I didn't recognize it so I had it towed! WTF is that shit!!! Man am I freakin' pissed...Now I'm charged 200 clams to pick the fucker up!  Let ya' know what happens but the renta cop company is gonna pick-up the tab one way or another! I can just hear the fukin' tires squeelin' as it was dragged in gear onto the fukin' flat bed! 

Now theres an idea!

Yeah but it was fun as hell watching my friend's '76 Hawiian flying through the air every few seconds!    I was watching from a fishing boat with an...   uhg...   outboard.

New ya' come around!

I think jets are for pole smokin homos, but this one seems like a good deal. Apaches are very nice boats. If I was in the position I'd buy it as a secondary boat.

Right said!

I'm lost on the double "Y" Not that it really matters much , just curious.

-beerjet-

Breakfast at the "Y"?

Well I drove 3 freakin' hours to look at a National in Peoria for $28K...thinkin' it would be perfect since it was at an Acura lot and only had 28,000 miles on it..I got there at night (great way to buy a car huh?) and I noticed that some of the hardware under the hood had a little rust on it not common with AZ..After a carfax found out that it spent 17yrs in Ill. Low milage but that scares me...So I passed on it...There is another one in Costa Mesa which I have never been to but the guy at the dealer ship tells me that a car from the Cal. coast gets as much rust and salt as an eastern car from the ocean. I have never heard this one before..Do any of you Californians have any insight on this?

That turbo Trans Am sounds like one hell of a fun ride. On the other hand they made a turbo Grand National also. Witch means there is parts avaliable to make that Grand National a turbo if you wanted to. I think I would have to take the TA. Whats the horsepower to weight ratio on them?

Grand Nationals are all turbos...The TTA is rated at 250 but is actually 301 on a Dyno..The National is around 275hp...I think the National is a more solid car and wouldn't tend to turn into a rattle trap like the TTA but they only made 1500 tta's and there were 25,000 Nationals produced...The TTA has a Buick motor in it and top speed is a ridiculous 178MPH 'cause of arodynamics..there is a TTA in Tucson with only 45,000 miles on it..The National has a better resale value... There is a National in Phoenix with only 25,000miles..The National has a better resale value and I plan on it being a daily driver...

I cant tell, its a surprise. 

Sounds like an Outboard is 'bout ta' get set-up....
Just take a blade to the JetBoat part...

oh yeah....and the dildo dingy was obviously warlock. 

Yea but thats before I got it regelcoated...   Damn I wish I could've been there! How did the beers go down?

What kinda beer is that? I can't tell in the picture..

How big of a roost does that twin throw?

My friend's naturally aspirated jet has been clocked at 118 mph.

And to answer your subject title of "are these boats any good?", dollar for dollar, no they aren't any good. They don't throw a roost, they can't run in shallow (less than a foot) river water, they cost a mininum of $3,000 every time they go to the shop, they cost a fortune to buy, and they're difficult to work on. Other than those ugly things hanging off of the back, they're good looking boats.

I'm gonna try and keep my mouth shut on this one.....OK..I tried...where do you get this mininum of 3K every time it goes in the shop? You can rebuild the whole motor for that...But then again I guess thats the only time one is in the shop is when the motor is worn out...difficult to work on? Thats why I have one 'cause the only thing I wanna work on at the lake is my buzz...The roost and low water has already been addressed....As far as cost goes...There is that old saying...Ya' get what ya' pay for...

You ain't gonna find a jet as fast as that widow maker!