Not sure if this is in the right section. If not, can someone let me know where to put it.

I live in TN, and I have been looking for a jet boat project to play with for quite some time. As some of you may know, there ain't many out this way, compared to Socal. I found this beast by word of mouth. Been sitting in an older gentlemen's shop for a good while. It ain't seen the sun in about 3 years. The man has owned it for 18 years. Anyways, to the boat.

89 Liberator 21 ft. tunnel, 468 BBC, mild work done to it. I'm thinking a Dominator pump? Hydraulic diverter, and a pump ratchet(first time i had ever heard of this). 850 carb, flowed to a 900, and (2) 21 gallon side tanks. I should have had a pen and paper, because this guy was spitting info out faster than Google. Said he's been racing jets since the early 80's. He has a list of everything done to it, maintenance records, etc. It isn't for sale to the public, he said he wants it to go to someone who knows what it is. His words"not some young punk, who's gonna go out and get people hurt with it". He's asking $12,500 for it. I haven't seen a whole lot of these, so hard to find something comparable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Here's some pics

Last picture he gave me, so it's a picture of a picture(kinda hazy)

Not sure what the difference is, but he also said it's a kevlar hull. At one point, he had a 600 +/- HP 505 in it. Said it ran well over 100

I don't know how similar these are too the Eliminator Daytona but a 21 Daytona (no motor) is fetching pretty close to that.
I'd look it over for cracks, rot, and few laps on the lake before I hauled it away.
Really good price (assuming it's all in working order) for a clean 21kevlar turn key tunnel hull in my opinion.

-beerjet-

If memory serves me right Liberator is still making new boats, I have seen a couple with a 300 blender for $50k. Most of the ones I've seen for sale, do have blenders on the back. I've been in an late 90's 21 Liberator, with a  similar set up and I was hooked. Plus for the price compared to a Daytona, I don't need to go 100+ so it seemed to fit me. What it doesn't fit is my family... :-(


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I really think a test drive is gonna make matters worse....for your check book..

-beerjet-

that is exactly what i was thinking!!

My buddy had a liberator with A 300 merc on it 100 + mph nice ride the only problem he had one of the sponsons came apart at the seem probable not a problem with all liberators but he was hard on it


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