Was watching The Great Outdoors last night with John Candy and Dan Akyroyd.  I love the part when they rent the boat "Suck My Wake".  Fricking Blown V-Drive.  Sweet ass boat.  But seriously, could you really rent a boat like that?  I guess back in the 80's perhaps.  So could you back then or even now?  That would be fun.  My buddies think no and I tend to agree with them.

Doubtful that a boat like that could ever be rented particularly in todays "litigeous" climate , We actually own a "sister boat" to that  one of very few ever produced I've long thought of trying to Clone that boat as a project but the movie people probably wouldn't appreciate it , Great movie though lots of laughs .. Tom

there was a discussion on the ''other site'' a while back about suck my wake and someone said the blower it self was fake but the engine was running . i don't know if that's true or not... i am trying to find it

Looks like when the boat went up the ramp they had moved the rudder so it would not damage it!

But, it was floating and you can't be mad at that

It always bugged me that Roman suggests that they rent a jet boat but then its a v-drive. Sweet boat though.

No no no. You guys got it all wrong

That boat had the Original "Go Baby Go" switch

He has the blower on a switch just like Mad Max Road Warrior.

Duh!

 

Did any of u see the deleted sceen when candy drives the flatty up on the boat ramp he autly grabs the in n out grinds the vdrive n goes up the ramp all in acindent

He said go Faster!!!

The boats may still be around, built by a guy who goes by roman1 on the boards.  Apparently two '72 Millers were built.

I seem to recall that the engine firing sequence, just before John Candy drives it up the launch ramp by shifting the cav plates, was an effect created with fire extinguishers.  I want to say that info might be from the DVD commentary or special features.

Love this movie and especially the boat.

The pictures were jacked from the brand X website.  Sorry, I do not know who to give credit.

I'm just sitting around the house waiting for the tide to go out to go surfing,
Looking up my friend John Miller (Miller boats)saw all these replys to the "suck my wake boat". filming was done at bass lake ca. The director knew nothing about boats, we went through several boats , spending $100k on boats,
When Dan akroid saw this flat bottom ripping up the lake, Dan said "that's the boat" , the prob was it had one seat ,
I said if that's the boat you want , it's sitting in my garage, my brother in law as the same boat , ( mine was a wood deck , his was fiberglass, both were "millers" both had bench seats , 1/3, 2/3 , (bucket/bench combo) the production bought both $$$$$ . We didn't want to deal wth the blower, so we put a hollowed out blower over the existing tunnel ram . One of the famous lapoint brothers did the skiing,
John candy set on the back of a ski boat
Special skis for the streak, and smoke on the dock ( no CGI back than)
The ramp scene was scripted
2 things I wish I still had ;
(1) suck my wake
(2) Ferrari I built for "ferris Buellers day off"

Ps no one builds a wood deck like the millers , I never knew you could bend wood like that
Pss Miller boats were the first all open boat,
Dave Miller was the first to inset the cavitation plate into the hull, before that the boat builders just bolted A piece of stainless steel angle to the transom



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