Corvette Boat?????
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From: Bryan Tx.
Corvette Boat?????
i have seen a boat about a 20 foot inboard ls1. it is torch red and has large white corvette lettering down both sides. i know a cat that lives on the road where it sits and he tells me that it was a limited production boat from what company i dont know. has anyone ever seen anything like this before? fry
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I'm pretty sure it was made by Malibu around 97-98. It had a trailer with corvette wheels, the boat had corvette tail lights on the back and an LS1.
Kinda cool, but I'd rather have an Nautique.
Kinda cool, but I'd rather have an Nautique.
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Callaway teamed up with Malibu boats to make these limited edition boats from 1997 to 2000, had the Callaway supernatural edition motor in them.
http://www.cars-on-line.com/28003.html
http://www.cars-on-line.com/28003.html
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I've seen the boat too. Nice looking and good power with the LS1. Some of the Corvette related magazines had an article about it when the boat came out.
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Callaway teamed up with Malibu boats to make these limited edition boats from 1997 to 2000, had the Callaway supernatural edition motor in them.
http://www.cars-on-line.com/28003.html
http://www.cars-on-line.com/28003.html
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corvette boat
As a Corvette owner and waterskier, yes Malibu Boats made somewhere around 150 Corvette boats in the late 1990's. They took an existing hull design (Response hull model) and put some vents in the back to look like the Corvette tail lights, LS1 engine of course, put in a higher end interior and instrument pannel, all polished stainless steel running hardware for a bling factor and yes it has Corvette wheels on the trailer. It is a nice boat but a little overvalued in my opinion.
Here is a link for on that is on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RARE-...spagenameZWDVW
Here is a link for on that is on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RARE-...spagenameZWDVW
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From: Bryan Tx.
i think i've just about talked the guy into tradeing the boat for a 68 camero drag car that i have. i checked around and found out that these boats sell for around the mid 20's. i wonder if i will be able to pull it with my torch red coupe? probably be pretty stupid looking backed down the boat ramp hooked up to the coupe with the pipes gurgleing under water (not). but would be neat looking going down the road.
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i think i've just about talked the guy into tradeing the boat for a 68 camero drag car that i have. i checked around and found out that these boats sell for around the mid 20's. i wonder if i will be able to pull it with my torch red coupe? probably be pretty stupid looking backed down the boat ramp hooked up to the coupe with the pipes gurgleing under water (not). but would be neat looking going down the road.
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They are fast naval vessel smaller than a frigate. In the 18th–19th century corvettes were three-masted ships with square rigging and carried about 20 guns on the top deck. Often used to send dispatches within a battle fleet, they also escorted merchant ships. Early U.S. corvettes won distinction in the War of 1812. They disappeared as a class after the shift to steam power in the mid-19th century, but in World War II the term was applied to small armed vessels that served as escorts for convoys. Modern corvettes, usually displacing 500–1,000 tons and armed with missiles, torpedoes, and machine guns, perform antisubmarine, antiaircraft, and coastal-patrol duties in small navies.
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Originally Posted by Frozenfire
Bight your tongue (pun intended)! A Corvette was a ship, not a boat. 
Originally Posted by redls1gto
A Corvette IS (not was) a ship...antisubmarine, antiaircraft, and coastal-patrol duties in small navies.
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