outboardrick
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A little boat history.....
A friend built this Daytona and his wife picked the colors. When it was popped from the mold my friend call me and said "Rick, you have to help me get out of this boat, the colors are not what we picked and it's butt ugly". I went down to Eliminator with him and saw the boat, it was sitting on the floor just out of the mold. I told him that they certainly weren't the colors I would have picked but I thought once is was polished and rigged it would look good. Bob Leach came out and told my friend that he had picked the colors and they didn't want to build it, and if it were something he could put in the showroom and sell he would let him out of the build. Bob said "you own this one". It was the first boat they had built specifically for a V8 outboard and the transom and knee braises were beefed up, and the first pink boat. Fast forward a few months and the boat was done and ran very well, and looked pretty good, and very different. My friend had some financial difficulties about that time and I ended up with the boat when it was about 6 months old. When the boat was being rigged a couple had seen it and wanted it, but since it was a custom they couldn't buy it and they splashed it. Not long after Eliminator made another and put it on their catalog.... And so the pink/teal craze of the late 80s and early 90s was started. I don't know if Shueman was with Eliminator back then but he can ask Bob to confirm, this is the way it happened.
A friend built this Daytona and his wife picked the colors. When it was popped from the mold my friend call me and said "Rick, you have to help me get out of this boat, the colors are not what we picked and it's butt ugly". I went down to Eliminator with him and saw the boat, it was sitting on the floor just out of the mold. I told him that they certainly weren't the colors I would have picked but I thought once is was polished and rigged it would look good. Bob Leach came out and told my friend that he had picked the colors and they didn't want to build it, and if it were something he could put in the showroom and sell he would let him out of the build. Bob said "you own this one". It was the first boat they had built specifically for a V8 outboard and the transom and knee braises were beefed up, and the first pink boat. Fast forward a few months and the boat was done and ran very well, and looked pretty good, and very different. My friend had some financial difficulties about that time and I ended up with the boat when it was about 6 months old. When the boat was being rigged a couple had seen it and wanted it, but since it was a custom they couldn't buy it and they splashed it. Not long after Eliminator made another and put it on their catalog.... And so the pink/teal craze of the late 80s and early 90s was started. I don't know if Shueman was with Eliminator back then but he can ask Bob to confirm, this is the way it happened.