1973 Rebel Bass Boat - For Sale - Project Boat

[eknapp74]

1973 Rebel Bass Boat with an inboard motor.  This would be a project boat for someone.  (2) brand new trailer tires with less than 100 miles on them.  $850.00 

 

[jdmidwest]

Thats a big inboard on a small boat.

[fishinwrench]

33 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Thats a big inboard on a small boat.

That's an I/O (not an inboard)

And they don't make'em any smaller. 😅

[jdmidwest]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

That's an I/O (not an inboard)

And they don't make'em any smaller. 😅

What was the thought process on those, weight distribution?

[fishinwrench]

35 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

What was the thought process on those, weight distribution?

It was 1973 man.    Have you forgotten what it was like? 😅 

1/2 ton 2wd trucks had 396's & 454's in them.   And gas was .45 a gal.    So if you were gonna put a motor in something... you didn't F✓€¥ around! 

[gotmuddy]

2 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

What was the thought process on those, weight distribution?

They wanted a fast boat and the biggest outboard back then was a 140hp or so.  I/O are real inefficient, you lose 15% power every time it turns, and it turns twice with an I/O 

[jdmidwest]

13 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

It was 1973 man.    Have you forgotten what it was like? 😅 

1/2 ton 2wd trucks had 396's & 454's in them.   And gas was .45 a gal.    So if you were gonna put a motor in something... you didn't F✓€¥ around! 

In 73, I was 10 and cranking on my cheap a ss old great uncles 9hp Johnson in the Jon boat hoping I was not going to paddle back to the old Greenville boat ramp. Nothing seemed to be going any faster than us.  And they sure weren't towing us back.

I was peeling turf back on the edges of old 67 hwy that was abandoned for nightcrawlers to catch drum and white bass.  No glory there, just good times and good fishing.  Not forgotten.  You were just spoiled on them big name lakes.

 

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38 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

13 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

 

In 73, I was 10

Youngster😆

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

15 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

 

In 73, I was 10

Me too!  

Gas might have been 39.9 now that I think about it.    Used to fill up my 5hp Briggs&Stratton mini-bike AND buy a Coke and a Slim Jim....all for less than a dollar.  

Man those were the days!!!!  🤗 

 

I didn't get turned loose with the motorboats until I was 12.  

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8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

AND buy a Coke and a Slim Jim....all for less than a dollar.  

When I ran my paper routes it was always a Dr Pepper and a butterfinger.   Soda came out of those old steel soda machines you pulled the bottle around the track to get them out.   George at the market kept butterfingers in same machine for me.  Ice cold butterfinger and Dr Pepper🔥.