74 spectra20 v-drive
74 spectra20 v-drive
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I thought I would post some pictures of a 72 Sanger 17' 10" I was working on this past year. A family friend bought this boat last year and its a cool little runner but she didn't like the headers and it was getting hot and and and… and yes I said She, this is a cool lady that owns this boat and she even held the woman's bare foot speed record 39 years ago and could out ski 99% if not 100% of all the guys. I am about 12 to 15 years younger then her so I grew up watching them do all this stuff and really was excited to get to know her as a friend now more than just an acquaintance.
She was up at Kings River with us last summer and we have several nice and clean Sangers, she had grown up with one of these boats as did I and this is actually the boat the pulled her back in the day to set her record. Its funny the impression that these old boats leave on Kids, I knew I would have a Sanger one day and so did she. She started looking at the other boats and realized she needed to do some clean up. I told her I would do the work as I knew what she wanted (even if she really didn't have a total idea)
She dropped the boat off in November and i gave it back to her in July... I work slow and travel a lot as well for work work. Our goal was to changes the headers and go thru the transom and add a Velvet Drive. Glenwood had the logs and elbows and we found a Velvet Drive in Sacramento so i had the parts to start. The boat shows up and I really start looking at it and I know I am going to have to pull everything out and re-do 90% of it, it was OK but rough and i know the boats she is looking at and what boats this thing will be floating next to. By all means we are not big time big money hot rod guys, just, in my own opinion, clean old school guys.
Ill post some pics and try to go in order of my discovery, I knew when I found the stainless braided water line zip tied to the hot battery lead that I had better dig in deep
She was up at Kings River with us last summer and we have several nice and clean Sangers, she had grown up with one of these boats as did I and this is actually the boat the pulled her back in the day to set her record. Its funny the impression that these old boats leave on Kids, I knew I would have a Sanger one day and so did she. She started looking at the other boats and realized she needed to do some clean up. I told her I would do the work as I knew what she wanted (even if she really didn't have a total idea)
She dropped the boat off in November and i gave it back to her in July... I work slow and travel a lot as well for work work. Our goal was to changes the headers and go thru the transom and add a Velvet Drive. Glenwood had the logs and elbows and we found a Velvet Drive in Sacramento so i had the parts to start. The boat shows up and I really start looking at it and I know I am going to have to pull everything out and re-do 90% of it, it was OK but rough and i know the boats she is looking at and what boats this thing will be floating next to. By all means we are not big time big money hot rod guys, just, in my own opinion, clean old school guys.
Ill post some pics and try to go in order of my discovery, I knew when I found the stainless braided water line zip tied to the hot battery lead that I had better dig in deep
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