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RABCO18
04-14-2010, 11:34 AM
gw invader vs stream

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 11:39 AM
my old 15 mx checkmate with t2x

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 11:43 AM
my old stv

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 11:44 AM
my old stream

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 11:47 AM
my rabco

largecar91
04-14-2010, 12:52 PM
Great pictures! How did the Checkmate run with the T2 on it?? Did you have to push it to get it started??

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 01:04 PM
i had to lay on the deck and reach over and push throttle with my hand i also had a twister 1 with chrome stacks on that boat cant find pictures the sherrif loved that motor always harrassing me and i forgot while pushing throttle with one hand usually had to hit primer button with other

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 01:10 PM
you call yourself largecar do you drive a truck

largecar91
04-14-2010, 01:44 PM
I run a trucking company. I have driven and owned lots of trucks over the last 31 years.

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 01:49 PM
i own a trucking company also and have for 30 years my father used to own frostways in detroit if your from ohio you probably saw our reefers heading east with loads of meat

RABCO18
04-14-2010, 01:52 PM
used to run 359 petes with v8 cats and 6 by 4 transmisions those were largecars

largecar91
04-14-2010, 02:21 PM
Yes they were. An extended hood Pete is the only way to travel. I was leased to Monfort from Colorado in the 80's. They didn't call the left lane the "Monfort Lane" for nothing!. We hauled swinging meat. I remember Frostways. I still run a few Petes w 550's and 18's. Gotta go for the fuel mileage now.

cam crysler225
09-11-2013, 02:12 PM
my old 15 mx checkmate with t2x
this was my dads boat at one time

cam crysler225
09-11-2013, 02:12 PM
i remember sitting in the back seat of this boat. what a riot

Detroit Whitey
09-20-2013, 08:18 AM
Let's see your dad's new boat!!!

Detroit Whitey
09-29-2013, 11:59 AM
:cool:55054I found this one nice ride

Ron Hill
09-29-2013, 12:33 PM
:cool:55054I found this one nice ride

I know Bruce Nescher patented the MOD VP bottom, but I'm not sure he was the real designer. Somehow I always thought Phil Percival designed the bottom.

You can see the "HILL" bracket on the back. I designed ths bracket on a napkin for Bob Leach. Bob had Tommy Papp, I think, build the first bracket on a jet boat. Sleek followed suit soon after.

Cool picture!


WOA! Is that boat a TAYLOR????? I thought it was a Sleek.....but now I'm confused.

Detroit Whitey
09-29-2013, 01:16 PM
Nope it's a sleek55056

Ron Hill
09-29-2013, 06:26 PM
This was, for sure an "Outboard" Boat. Bruce was quite a guy. I'm not sure anynbe has ever written about all the thing he reall did do. For quite ahile he really was a "HIGH ROLLER" (One of his boat names, I think).

I had two Sleek Craft Mod VP boats, he gave me both of them...And when I blew one over and mesed it up pretty well. He fixed it with charging me a dime. Of course, Ted Bravo bought more than 25 boats from Bruce one year, and Ted was my friend! (Muscle Boats).

Those boat were fun to drive and had great lines.

cam crysler225
10-31-2013, 05:35 PM
Let's see your dad's new boat!!!
come on out to the river and give us a race then u can see it hehe

cam crysler225
10-31-2013, 05:38 PM
This was, for sure an "Outboard" Boat. Bruce was quite a guy. I'm not sure anynbe has ever written about all the thing he reall did do. For quite ahile he really was a "HIGH ROLLER" (One of his boat names, I think).

I had two Sleek Craft Mod VP boats, he gave me both of them...And when I blew one over and mesed it up pretty well. He fixed it with charging me a dime. Of course, Ted Bravo bought more than 25 boats from Bruce one year, and Ted was my friend! (Muscle Boats).

Those boat were fun to drive and had great lines.
yeah we have it running right around 80 but it porposes and chimewalks so bad past 75 that we cant hold it lng enough to see what it will really do

cam crysler225
10-31-2013, 05:44 PM
I know Bruce Nescher patented the MOD VP bottom, but I'm not sure he was the real designer. Somehow I always thought Phil Percival designed the bottom.

You can see the "HILL" bracket on the back. I designed ths bracket on a napkin for Bob Leach. Bob had Tommy Papp, I think, build the first bracket on a jet boat. Sleek followed suit soon after.

Cool picture!


WOA! Is that boat a TAYLOR????? I thought it was a Sleek.....but now I'm confused.
nope its a sleek 79

cam crysler225
12-16-2013, 05:12 PM
god i miss that rabco, lots of fun, now that im old enough to have my own boat i would kill for it haha xD

cam crysler225
12-16-2013, 05:15 PM
also this was no conversion, this has always been an outboard rig, 1979 not an sst