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Offline V153

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Model ID?
« on: April 18, 2011, 10:19:09 PM »
This one's a toughy boys & girls. Put yer thinkin caps on.
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Offline Rich_V174SS

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 10:26:27 PM »
Ooooo! It's a strange one but I know what it is!

The re-paint makes it tough to ID but everything else on it tells me it's a '66 V174 Crestflite, possibly the non-SuperSport version which was originally gold and white.
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 11:11:32 PM »
Hah hah hah! Outstanding! Very good answer Rich. Though by the looks of the motor cover me thinks it is a SuperSport?
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Offline Rich_V174SS

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 11:13:46 PM »
The more rare non-SuperSport version was virtually identical, just a different color:

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 11:37:07 PM »
Aha! I see the specs are the same. It appeared to me the motor cover on the SS was bigger/longer. An optical delusion I reckon ...  So what is the difference anyway?
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Offline Rich_V174SS

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 11:40:35 PM »
Same boat, different color (gold instead of jade) and the lack of a SuperSport racing stripe on the bow.
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2011, 05:41:44 AM »
yup i agree with Rich lol . i was told it is the stripe that gives it the ss name.



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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2011, 04:28:33 PM »
Now I get it! Kinda like when Daimler, er Chrysler puts "Sport" stickers on a minivan?
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2011, 06:01:56 PM »
The stripe(s) made it a SS? How about more HP? Now that would make sense.
You got the good color Rich. I wouldnt want a skin colored (cleaned up version of how I usually describe the color) boat! I used to laugh when I saw Ford Fairmounts that color or similar and always thought to myself, "hope they got a good deal" Usually some ol timer driving it.
I take it that bow rail was added.
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Offline Rich_V174SS

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2011, 06:46:09 PM »
Power options were the same. Bow rails were an option and could be added by the dealer at the customer's request.
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2011, 11:00:50 PM »
Isn't it the fact that it's an I/O that made it an SS? At least that is how the Calson's are. My 67 V172 does not have the stripe yours does. Maybe it just so happened that the I/O's, Stripe, and SS were all used together.

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2011, 07:08:55 AM »
Quote from: 74GlasCarlSS on April 19, 2011, 11:00:50 PM
Isn't it the fact that it's an I/O that made it an SS? At least that is how the Calson's are. My 67 V172 does not have the stripe yours does. Maybe it just so happened that the I/O's, Stripe, and SS were all used together.

Not nececelery. I suspect someone removed the SS stripe from your boat. The '67 V172 was considered a SuperSport. They also had a V171 Crestflite Sportsman SuperSport that year. The green ones are faster.  ;D

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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2011, 09:04:18 AM »
Interesting...... I'll have to ask the guy I bought mine from if it ever had a stripe as he was the original owner. I like the stripe. I might have to add it back on.
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2011, 07:14:02 AM »
Ok, so what happened with the boat that started this thread?   ???
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2011, 03:15:38 PM »
Still sitting in the weeds somewhere in SC to the best of my knowledge Rich. A guy on Iboats was trying to ID it while back.
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Re: Model ID?
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2011, 06:32:08 PM »
Quote from: 74GlasCarlSS on April 19, 2011, 11:00:50 PM
Isn't it the fact that it's an I/O that made it an SS? At least that is how the Calson's are. My 67 V172 does not have the stripe yours does. Maybe it just so happened that the I/O's, Stripe, and SS were all used together.

My V163 is an SS and had a stripe on the bow, which I took off. You can still easily see the marks left behind. It looked too "dated" for me at the time but I may be going back more original with this one over time. I'll get some seat dimensions from your 172 at some point. I am not sure they are the same, but close.
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73 GT 160
84 CVX 17  83 115 Merc
88 CVX-23 350 Mag
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