California Special

[Terry_Curran]

This guy bought this boat back in May off of eBay for $4650, if I remember right.  Then I think he paid another $8 or 900 to have it transported to his house.  About a week ago he listed it on eBay for $2100 buy it now, then switched it to be bid on.  Currently there are 6 bids at $1400 and has until about noon tomorrow until it ends. This is a boat I really want, but, current circumstances prohibit me from buying it.  If it was listed in May at the $2100 buy it now price, it would be in my driveway!  I felt the po's starting bid of $4500 was too high.  I talked to him and he told me that's what he paid for it about 10 years ago and wanted to get his money back out of it. I had more pictures of the boat than what was/ is posted now, but, thinking it was a done deal, I deleted them about 3 weeks ago.  I love the space my boat provides for me, my wife Nancy, and our dog Bear, and I'm not ready to part with it.  I hope someone from the club gets it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1981-Glastron-California-Special-/200946554513?pt=Power_Motorboats&hash=item2ec9591691&vxp=mtr

Terry

[Hyperacme]

NICE !
I'd bet the trailer is worth $1400 alone ... Looks new !

[wexrocks]

Are you kidding me? How did I miss that? And only hours from me. I do a glastron search on ebay every couple days, always search by most recently listed, then scan down until I see things I saw on the last search. I didn't see my old CSS-19 on ebay until Shrom sent me a text, and I completely missed this one. I absolutely would have bought it. Wow.

[Terry_Curran]

I watched as the bidding ended, $1400.....

Terry

[Jason]

WEX, Contact him anyway. You never know.

[CharlieN]

He must have needed to move that for other reasons since he did not put a reserve on it. That must hurt to let it go for that money as it hurts for many of us to not have seen the auction. It would well have been worth a drive to collect it.

[wexrocks]

Somebody got a good deal. Pretty rare bird, but we all know what's involved in making it nice again. After getting over the shock of what it sold for, I considered the advice of contacting him anyway. Then I started realizing that I don't have time to finish the Scimitar right now. Or work on it. Or do anything other than work (and mow the grass, occasionally). So I wouldn't have time to use it. Or fix it (which I would convince myself I need to do). It's only purpose would be to run it as-is as a beater. And like all of us, I wouldn't be happy with that, and that is certainly no way to treat a California Special. So, after consideration, I decided to let the idea go... Hopefully it will be treated well wherever it ended up.

I think this is a sign of progress with my G/C addiction! Except if it were a Ski Machine... or another Scimitar... or a CV-23 I/O... or... 

[Hyperacme]

Admitting you have a problem is the first step Steve ...
There is no cure ...
Have your wife put a parental lock on Craigslist.
Only go to G/C web sites once a week ...

Soon you'll be able to look at old G/C and not wanna save every one ...

YA RIGHT !
... LOL

[california special]

the guy who bought this boat is the same guy who bought j camps cv 19 and cv 21. he lives down the road from me. i dont know why anyone would sell any boat for 3 grand less than he paid for it 2 months ago. especially a california special. ill never sell mine but if i did my asking price would start off more than 4500

[Rosscoe]

Thats insane. Maybe those were old pics? Trashed now? Dead motor?