Define, "Pumping them out". At mid-$60's without electronics and only a handful of dealers, I find it hard to believe there is a big line waiting for them. Let me be the first to estimate the cost on...
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Define, "Pumping them out". At mid-$60's without electronics and only a handful of dealers, I find it hard to believe there is a big line waiting for them. Let me be the first to estimate the cost on...
You've probably made up your mind already, but I ran a Puma FTD for two years and other than being a very well built boat, it was not nearly as fishable as the TRX21. Puma was too narrow at the front...
Not sure where you're getting your numbers, but a new TRX-19 with a 200 is $40K. Trade that thing in or sell it outright and get what you really want. Keep the economy rolling. You NEVER make out...
Cope Marine over in O'Fallon, IL has a 202 DC. Pretty close to a 203 and not far from you.
To comment on an earlier thread; I have news for you, buying direct would not save you 30%. Dealers would be rolling on the floor laughing to hear they had a 30% margin in bass boats. What a joke.
Low $40s, now that there is funny. The Charger 210 and 198 could have possibly started a little lower if they had indeed obtained the original molds, but having splashed existing boats to build their...
Define "a lot". Nobody is moving "a lot" these days.
That was how Champion was run back in the day by Storey and Pace. My buddy fished the TOC at Table Rock one year and Champion went around the parking lot fixing everything they could. He had kicked...
Bought in 1976. A 1976 155A Ranger, 85 hp Merc. 2nd boat was a 1979 178V Hydra-Sport with a Mariner 140hp in-line 6 (was actually off the Merc 150 line) (was only rated for a 120hp) boy did she run.
About the only way to defeat a Loc-R-Bar is with a saws-all (two vertical cuts) and a smack with a sledge hammer and knocking out that part of the gunnel. Like stated earlier, most thiefs will go to...
Provided you went to the U of MO and are a big Tiger's fan, looks good. Otherwise, I'm not a fan...sorry.
Provided you did pump the bulb before putting it in the water, it sounds like a classic fuel bulb check valve leaking down and loosing the prime. If that's the case, replace the fuel bulb. Just...
Dink is right, rollers will cause the hull to warp and create hooks.
If I remember right, the 191 was the less bells rig and the 193 was the Elite. Same hulls and were of the original "narrow bodied, sat bow high version". The 188 was the 18ft wide bodied style. I had...
Personal opinion is that there is a good reason there's a $4000 difference in price. Any boat that you drop the plastic compartments into is not at the same level as a molded deck. No. 1 the Z19 is...
Wow, the grocery store you guys go too must keep sold out of Kool-Aid. Name any other 20 footer Ranger built that was worse. They kept that boat on the market for the shortest time of any model I can...
The Z20 was the single most disappointing hull Ranger ever produced. Looked really neat and performed terribly. You could sink a couple thousand on a hyd jack plate and custom prop and gain maybe 4 -...
My buddies 519 had livewell doors that cracked real bad and you felt like you were going to fall through. Ranger sent new ones, but the carpet did not match very well. Looked terrible.
NO, no, I don't mean the boats and equipment, I mean the Hay Day of Bass Boats sales is gone. When a single bass boat dealer would do 40 - 50 boats or more a year. My dealer did 82 one year. So many...
I'm sorry, but that Charger graphic design slapped on the old Champion graphics is just plain terrible looking. No symmetry, flow. or fluidity. It's awful. An earlier statement about Charger boats...
Not sure all that is quite right. It's not the Ranger execs that are in TN looking, it's the Triton guys. Remember the Triton business team is still in TN. Triton people have been complaining about...
I don't think you will see Triton phased out any time soon. They are still a major player in total sales. Stratos on the other hand, I feel, are taking their last breaths.The fact about Champion is...
Town and Country is great, but the new owner is about to increase prices a bunch.
Boy, I bet that was slim pickins....just kidding, Kelly's an old friend, but you really T-ed that one up.
A friend of mine just bought one and located just under the throttle handle is a small oval shaped opening that may have had some sort of storage box in it. Did it have a plastic box of some sort or...
