glassdave

Wayne charged me five bucks what he get you for




thats funny you say that about Crockett I thought the exact same thing standing there

scarab kv

You got off cheap.
I made Mike take me out for breakfast

buck35

What a score ! And glass Dave is is part of the restoration, does it get any better! Congrats and keep us posted.

scarab kv

I'll be doing a restoration thread with lots of high res pics and little snippets of history along the way about the nearly discontinued 377 and it's transformation to the KV and the Vice program.
First order of things is to photo document every inch of the boat and measure all the logos for later assembly and placement reference

baronmarine

just a thought, maybe call lipship. phil did a lot of driving when filming higher speeds for michael mann back in the day. best of luck. sure will be a smoother ride at boyne.

todd

twinscrews

Were their two boats built for the show and were they exactly the same? Curious about original power was in them.

scarab kv

Brian Holmes and I were just discussing Phil's involvement a couple nights ago and my need to speak with him.
We will have the Edition boat at Boyne this year. Had a couple projects going on it at the time that were in limbo pending the star boat deal, so we brought the Mini boat.
Needless to say, we had to stay in the kiddie pool lol

scarab kv

There were two boats from each model year over four seasons.
Two 86's for season 2, two 87's for seasons 3/4 and two 88's for season 5.
The season 2 boats had 400 Cyclones and the remainder had 420s.
Both boats were required to be on location when ever boat scenes were filmed, so the crew named them Stars 1&2 to keep them straight on the radios. Knowing the significance of the numeral 2 on the transom is what sealed the deal on the boat.
If you watch close, you will see significant differences in the sister boats during episodes.
Our boat and Star 1 were the most noticeable.
Due to ours having butterfly hatches, there are rails between the intakes, the color fades on the hatches were opposite, upper cabin doors had different logos and one had dry exhaust verses wet on the other.
Season 3/4 was a little more subtle. The Scarab name moved back and forth on the fairing between episodes.
Colors changed over the seasons.
Season 2 boats had the pastel colors that most of the Edition boats mimic with the Aqua deck and color fades stripes on the deck, arch and hatches that matched the hull stripe.
Season 3/4 went dark with Silver hull and deck. The deck stripes were changed to Black along with a matching stripe between the blower intakes. Color fades was removed from the intakes and arch and spot lights were added.
Season 5 went back to an Aqua deck, an arrow head was added to the tip of the deck stripe, Black stripe added to the arch, the Black stripe between the intakes was removed and the color fades was added back to the intakes again.
In all, there were six screen used boats, one loaner boat from each model year for Don Johnson and 33 edition boats for a total of 42 Vice related boats.

phughes69

Wayne, do you and Randy know where all the TV show boats are?

phughes69

What does this mean Wayne?