BAJA FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[merc245]

I found this little baja jet boat while doing some appraisal work in a Detroit neighborhood . I feel like I unearthed a shelby mustang or something, but only in my price range.The exterior of the hull looked great and had a nice sheen to it. Wish I had a place to keep it, would make someone a nice project boat. These were the only pics I could get, due to the fact that I didn't want to get eaten by a pit bull or a rottweiler!

 

[81 enchanter]

is it free? or for sale or what?

 

[LAPLANT]

Looks alot like a Sidewinder

 

[merc245]

Don't Know,No one was home.

 

[ezstriper]

looks like a sidewinder to me as well, strange looking pump, I have had berkly and jucuzzi and neither looked like that, Rob

 

[cooperider]

It is a Sidewinder, with a Panther Jet. Or one of its many clones.

Damn, nice find.

If you decide you don't want it, post it up on my Sidewinder site, someone would probably love finding that thing.


If you want to see something on Panther Jets check out this video, that was posted on my site.

http://www.cinemashares.com/video/Panthera_332k.ram

or

http://www.cinemashares.com/video/Panthera_344k.wvx

 

[Old Navy]

I have always liked that hull style. It is one of the most splashed (copied) hulls ever made. Sidewinder, Tahiti, Cobra Jet, Taylor, etc. Jets, I/O's and outboards were made by the various makers. The windshields are usually broken and if you can find one are very expensive. I have never seen one that said "BAJA" on the side, but anything is possible. BTW, Panther jets are shunned by jet people and upgrades are expensive and it still will not perform as well as a garden variety Berkeley (or Legend) pump. Former jet guy here, 1979 Southwind Tunnel Hull dragster, Pontiac powered, with a Berkeley pump.

 

[merc245]

About midship there was one of those baja "in the sun" metal name plates

 

[CHRIS G]

I AGREE WITH PREDICTOR ,ITS DEF. A SIDEWINDER WITH A PANTHER PUMP,PANTHER USED THAT "COWL" OR "GUARD" OVER THIER PUMPS!!!
DEF. A FUN PROJECT. JETS ARE A BLAST!!!!!!!!

 

[Boston Predictor]

Looks alot like a Sidewinder

x2

 

[merc245]

Hey Coop, love the video.Thought that was Havasue,How would liked to have owned a mile of frontage way back then.The video has inspired me. I think I'll make an outfit like panthera's and have wife wear it at the next POKER RUN, complete with Tiarra and Cape.Black,Red and Yellow of course