On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:44:01 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

On Feb 24, 10:37*pm, BAR wrote:
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:00:23 -0500, BAR wrote:

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On 2/23/2012 10:54 PM, BAR wrote:
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On 2/23/2012 9:45 PM, Tim wrote:
On Feb 23, 7:05 pm, * wrote:
557HP. *Cadillac 6.2L supercharged engine. *Single motor pushes a 29'10"
Center console with a 9'10" beam to 65 MPH. *$70K. *Wow!

Check out the video, too. *This is a beast of an OB!

http://blog.boattrader.com/2012/02/s...board-in-water...

Wow. and only $70,000.00 a copy too. BUT you get a custom paint job w/
each purchase!

?;^ )

No, really. That does seem to be an amazing engine....

What do you find so amazing if I may ask? They said it was a Caddy
engine, with a blower...

Will your local Caddy dealer know how to work on the motor and the lower
end?

My dad purchased an outboard thinking that it would be easier to
service. All it did was raise the price of parts.

My question was "what is so amazing about an outboard engine"?

You can get painted to match your gel-coat. You can get it painted to
match your arm candy's bathing suit. You can get it painted to match...

There really isn't anything special about it other than you can get it
painted to match anything you want and you could hang 4 of the off the
ass end of some boat and have a $300K of motors on a $150K boat.

There is a guy in the UK who has a 90 MPH inflatable boat with eight
250 hp outboards. Cross Channel smuggling is what he does. You can
make a good living on cigs and booze and not risk the heavy time for
drugs and guns.

They are busting retired people on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for
smuggling cigarettes. People retire to Ocean City, Maryland and they
then go to Delaware (no sales tax) and buy their cigarettes or down to
Virginia and buy cigarettes really cheap and smuggle them into Maryland.
If you bring in more than a carton you are smuggling and they hit you
for the taxes and if you do it enough you get busted.

It was the same with DC and Virginia in the late 70's and early 80's
when you could only take 1 gallon of booze across state lines. People
would buy booze, lots of booze, in DC at lunch time and then when they
would drive home after work the ATF would bust them when they crossed
from DC into Virginia. It was funny to see people on the side of the
road having a couple of big boxes of booze and wine bought in DC pulled
form their trunks while they were in hand-cuffs.

With the amount of traffic, I wonder how they got spotted, or if it
was random?

The cops would park outside the booze stores and follow the idiot.