87CigCafe

Any of you guys recently Toured the factory? If so how did you arrange to do so? I’m flying in to Fort Lauderdale November 5th arriving early-ish. Got a car rented then want to shoot over to Opa-Locka to hopefully get a tour of the Plant? Then leaving there and driving down to the Keys untill the 10th to go watch the Boat races. Any pointers seeing the factory would be awesome!

tommymonza

Give Ben Aranoff a call. 305 - 867-5309

87CigCafe

I hope you aren’t being serious. That’s absolutely the worst movie ever made and a disrespectful one at that LOL

tommymonza

Beyond worst in Every way. I can’t believe Travolta signed on for that mess and they had the money to pay him but not the money to make it period correct. Gotta love the Donzi running around at the beginning in 1965 with a 2010 Yamaha on it. Then showing him racing in Florida with mountains behind them. Just god Awefull.

It’s just Hollywood they can’t pay anyone that knows boats to be a consultant, every outboard in every movie sounds like a big block .

Only boat film ever made that was good was Wind the Americas Cup sailing movie they managed to Phuck up the last 20 minutes.

Actually the best boat scenes were in the original Miami Vice

87CigCafe

Totally agree! The outboards sounding like big blocks was hysterical. Then the “ storm / racing scene like come ON

tommymonza

That storm scene I had to fast forward through , my dog makes better Ai porn on his doggy iPad

tommymonza

Back in the 60s and 70s we would drive down to Fort Lauderdale from Michigan for Christmas and Spring break dragging our 23 Slick Craft behind my dads 440 Chrysler Country wagon.

I think it was 1972 and I was 7 and my older teenage brothers that worked for my dad doing construction wanted a Cigarette so we popped up at the factory .

Now my dad was very head strong and successful because of it , so he showed up with with my mom and us 8 kids, I had 3 and 4 old siblings below me also .

Needless to say Don was not impressed especially when my dad was already stating he needed to change the cockpit arrangement for our large family .

Don said come back tomorrow to my dad and walked away. Dad and my two older brothers went back the next day and I guess my dad being who he was decided to take his business elsewhere.

They went down the Street to the original Monza boat company and they agreed to the changes and that was that

tommymonza

So this is the 26 Monza my dad ended up buying and it’s not a 24/7 that was later built by a Monza company from later years

F-2 Speedy

Don driving my buddies 28 ( Lucky Strike ) thats Steve's elbow........Don let him build and rig the boat in the factory

tommymonza

Hows Lucky and Lucky Jr doing these days. Long time no see on the site.