Archive for March, 2010

I finally got pictures of my new 2000 Smoker Craft Millentia fishing boat, on back of the Smoker Craft is a 75 horsepower outboard. This is definitely enough horsepower to get this baby up and running, it's able to go 40mph on a really calm day. That's enough to get me to my favorite fishing spot in no time. I really can't wait to do some fishing this spring!

The boat is kind of the reason I have been posting muscle car articles on this site in the last few days. First I had to install a hitch on my girlfriend's Dodge Durango, that took two days or so, reason is I couldn't unscrew the old rusted out bolts. I had to buy a breaker bar at Home Depot and get the right millimeter sockets for the bolts. After that unscrewing the rusted bolts wasn't too bad, don't ever try doing this with a regular wrench. I actually broke two of my wrenches trying to do it.

After I got the hitch on, well what do you know the Durango's back brakes start squealing, I'm thinking in my head "oh boy!" Now I'm going to have to do a brake job! And this was no ordinary brake job, I had to do the rotors and all. The back rotors were so screwed up, the front ones weren't bad but I replaced them anyways. The Dodge Durango has 86,000 miles on it so I thought we might as well do everything.

Eventually another problem surfaced, most of the electronics weren't working on the boat, we had to try and figure out that problem. Luckily it was just a disconnected wire. See there's a lot of things that come up when you buy a boat, not everything's peaches and cream. It definitely costs some cash too to get everything running right.

Finally, everything seems to be working. I'm going to be able to take the boat out for the first time tomorrow. Hopefully we can catch a few fish, I'm hoping for some pike and walleye. It will just be great cruising around in the boat, that's for sure.

When I was working my Smoker Craft boat and Dodge Durango, I had to pull my 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra and 2002 Trans Am WS.6 out of the garage. I got a picture of the two together, I would of pulled the two closer together but I was lazy. Both of the rides were pretty clean when I shot this photo. Since I got my boat in the garage now, I had to push one of the muscle cars out of the garage. Since the SVT Cobra is a limited edition muscle car and it only has 1,000 miles on it, well it looks like the Trans Am is going to have to sit outside for awhile. Well that's until I can move my SVT Cobra into storage. Now after a few days of rain, the poor Trans Am is all dirty again. Man I wish I had a three car garage! But hey, I'm just thankful I have two great muscle cars and a cool fishing boat. I really couldn't ask God for anything else!

Here's the picture of the two muscle cars together: my silver 2002 Pontiac Trans Am WS.6 and my black on black 2004 Ford SVT Mustang Cobra(codenamed Terminator). Kind of a crappy shot of the two, but I was in a hurry to get the brakes done on the Dodge Durango. Maybe when I clean the Trans Am up again I'll get some better photos.

This is a drawing of a Buick muscle car rendered up by Bell Graham. Even though this is a GM muscle car concept, doesn't it look kind of like a Mopar car? The muscle car concept reminds me of the new 2010 Dodge Challenger. I love the hood scoops, but the other features of the front end don't go well with the car. I think this is a very old drawing though, I bet this concept would look very cool back in the 60s or 70s.

Sorry I haven't posted on the blog in a few days, I was busy with my new purchase of a boat. No I'm not selling any of my muscle cars, I'm still going to keep my 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra and my 2002 Trans Am WS.6. But, I am running room in my garage. I'm going to have to move one of those muscle cars out to my parents house, I think it's going to be my 2004 Cobra.

The boat I bought is a 2000 Smoker Craft and I got it off of Craiglist. I don't want to release the figure I bought it for, but I definitely got one hell of a deal. It wasn't easy though, I was checking Craigslist and other websites like ever three hours every day. Some of the other boat classifieds sites I was checking out was iBoats and Boat Trader. Most of those websites though just list dealer's boats, not personally owned boats. So if you buy your boat off one of those websites chances are you're going to be paying $2k extra.

Craigslist is where it's at, some webmasters say the traffic going to that website is just enormous! I think it is since it's taken traffic away from Ebay and other classified websites. Like I said up above though, in order to find a good deal on a boat or car, make sure you check back often. People are always posting cars and boats every minute, I actually found my boat at 3am. Then I called him at 10am the next day, I apologized the owner for calling so early, then I told him how serious I was and he gave me a call back within an hour. For the next few hours after my hour, he said the calls were coming in constantly. The seller allowed me to be the first one to take a hack at the boat, luckily he went with what I offered him. He could of easily sold the boat for $2k+. Believe me, it's not about luck, it's about hard work and using your brain. So if you find something you like you better hop on it immediately!

I posted a picture of what my boat looks like, it's not a very good and big picture but it will do for now. Soon as I trailer it to my house I'll try and post more pictures of the Smoker Craft boat, it sure is one hell of a boat. Hopefully it runs good and there isn't any problems, that's the risk you take when you buy a used boat from another person.