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fobes
03-03-2010, 07:27 AM
Anyone have any pics of the 47' Fountain "The Dealer", know its whereabouts?
Thanks: Matt

BBB725
03-03-2010, 08:49 AM
I found this from 2003 but no pics

The Everglades 47 Fountain, a rare CS model, with Triple 525 SC mercs #3a Drives "The Dealer" went to a guy that lives in the Akron Oh area and has new power and new paint

BBB725
03-03-2010, 09:10 AM
Found one

T2x
03-03-2010, 10:14 AM
The CS is the only Fountain I ever actually liked. Great styling, and good rough water performance. That was before all the bling and over rated "fabulosity" that followed.

FastDonzi
03-03-2010, 10:39 AM
Didn't Tres Father own that one?

fobes
03-03-2010, 10:47 AM
Nice pic, they are good looking.

DollaBill
03-03-2010, 11:51 AM
I've always loved that boat. Looks great in the water

mikey
03-03-2010, 12:49 PM
The 47 Dealer boat is here in Crownsville Maryland. I have never met the guy who owns but have some friends that have been asked to work on it. It is sitting outside of his garage and needed everything. I think he bought it from Jersey but not sure. I will try and get more info on it.

LEOPAJM
03-03-2010, 02:51 PM
Here's a better pic of the Dealer no ?!:sifone:

DollaBill
03-03-2010, 02:59 PM
man I forgot about that ad. Love it

GENERAL LEE
03-03-2010, 03:23 PM
I like that boat too.

Here's a pic that I took of it waaay back in when it was new & at Everglades:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9404/brandon5.jpg (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/brandon5.jpg/)


We owned The Dealer Top Gun for years. I LOVED that boat:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1802/thedealerus.jpg (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/thedealerus.jpg/)

stormrider
03-03-2010, 04:16 PM
The 47 Dealer boat is here in Crownsville Maryland. I have never met the guy who owns but have some friends that have been asked to work on it. It is sitting outside of his garage and needed everything. I think he bought it from Jersey but not sure. I will try and get more info on it.

There was a red 47CS here on LI for a while.
Haven't seen it in a few yrs though.

BBB725
03-03-2010, 04:55 PM
I like that boat too.

Here's a pic that I took of it waaay back in when it was new & at Everglades:


We owned The Dealer Top Gun for years. I LOVED that boat:


I looked it up and found out there were several of "The Dealer" boats built, I was really surprised there were that many, I only knew of the 42 and 47 Fountain

The first couple "The Dealer" were a 38 Cigarette
With some variance.
One with 525Hawks +TRS
One with 800 Cobras + #3 SSM
One with 750 Hawks and #6 SSM
1 31 Bulllet called Dealer Too
47 Apache triple 950 Cobras #6 ssm
42 Fountain Custom w/ right hand throtlles 800 Mercs and #6SSM
47 Fountain Triple 525 SC mercs #3a Drives

GENERAL LEE
03-03-2010, 05:18 PM
I looked it up and found out there were several of "The Dealer" boats built, I was really surprised there were that many, I only knew of the 42 and 47 Fountain

The first couple "The Dealer" were a 38 Cigarette
With some variance.
One with 525Hawks +TRS
One with 800 Cobras + #3 SSM
One with 750 Hawks and #6 SSM
1 31 Bulllet called Dealer Too
47 Apache triple 950 Cobras #6 ssm
42 Fountain Custom w/ right hand throtlles 800 Mercs and #6SSM
47 Fountain Triple 525 SC mercs #3a Drives

Ours was the 525 Hawk/TRS boat. :cheers2:

J-Bonz
03-03-2010, 11:41 PM
Follow the link for a few more pics....

Jr.

http://www.custommarinesales.com/classifieds/index.php?page=out&id=15

POWERPLAY33
03-04-2010, 12:11 AM
There was a red "dealer" Beaker up here a lil over a year ago... 47' repo just like in the pics...

DAREDEVIL
03-04-2010, 12:22 AM
Follow the link for a few more pics....

Jr.

http://www.custommarinesales.com/classifieds/index.php?page=out&id=15

DAMN,,,,,THATS A COOL BOAT !!!!!!!!!!! :cheers2:

Biggus
03-04-2010, 03:26 AM
Here's the 47 Apache:cheers2:

fobes
03-04-2010, 05:31 AM
There was a Fountain ad some years ago that featured a red 47CS launching off some huge waves.

Different lifeline configuration than in the other pics, different boat? Long walk back to the cockpit...I like this pic though for some reason.:sifone:

OneBadInjun
03-04-2010, 09:23 AM
Didn't Tres Father own that one?Yes, Ralph did.

olli
03-04-2010, 03:40 PM
The CS is the only Fountain I ever actually liked...

+1

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff120/oli5400/47cs001.jpg

xlr8by
03-04-2010, 04:20 PM
what year is this boat?

GENERAL LEE
03-04-2010, 04:36 PM
what year is this boat?

92, according to the ad:

http://www.custommarinesales.com/classifieds/index.php?page=out&id=15

glh
03-04-2010, 05:06 PM
Saw that rig with the Trips at Falcon Marine when I was shopping for my first Tiger back in 2003 I think it was quite the impressive machine.

dd24skater
03-04-2010, 05:10 PM
There was a Fountain ad some years ago that featured a red 47CS launching off some huge waves.

Different lifeline configuration than in the other pics, different boat? Long walk back to the cockpit...I like this pic though for some reason.:sifone:

Here is the bilge of the bikini girl 47 cs......it's Regie's old 47 race boat that was in all the ad's in the early 90's.....had twin turbo engines when RF was running it!

stormrider
03-04-2010, 05:26 PM
Saw that rig with the Trips at Falcon Marine when I was shopping for my first Tiger back in 2003 I think it was quite the impressive machine.

I'm sure that's the one that ended up at the lot in LaMottas.

Brad
03-04-2010, 05:35 PM
Here's the 47 Apache:cheers2:
What happened to the Apache 47 Dealer?

cosmic12
03-04-2010, 05:47 PM
I saw it sitting in the water at Fort Apache around 1998 or 97, that Pic of it in the water looks like the same spot and there was a guy in the engine compartment that day also. I wounder if we were there the same day????

xlr8by
03-04-2010, 05:49 PM
What happened to the Apache 47 Dealer?

See the Apache thread on the 47' Apache in the Apache section for what the dealer became.

Mac
03-04-2010, 06:01 PM
Ours was the 525 Hawk/TRS boat. :cheers2:

You were not the Dealer B YOU MY MAN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PLAYER!!!!:cheers2:

GENERAL LEE
03-04-2010, 11:00 PM
You were not the Dealer B, YOU MY MAN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PLAYER!!!!:cheers2:

Hahaha, I've definitely always tried to play my best with the hands I've been dealt! :cheers2:

BattleCry
03-05-2010, 01:29 AM
Norvel Staley

Magic Medicine
03-05-2010, 11:19 AM
That 47' is my all time favorite fountain

T2x
03-05-2010, 11:33 AM
Norville was a great guy and always had a smile and a hello for you even if he had no idea who you were........ He was not a young man during the "Dealer" years and his eyesight may not have been the best as a result, but he always made his boats available for the race sites and publicity.

One year at New Orleans in the early 90's we were out doing some television piece for ESPN or Speedvision...I can't remember which. Anyway, Norville, was running one of the "Dealer"s (Maybe an Apache?) at full throttle around Lake Pontchartrain with an assortment of media/PR types, cameramen and a couple of degenerate racing announcers on board. I was standing behind the forward bolster and helping the producer understand what "Starboard" meant or some such, when, out of the corner of my eye I see this odd line on the surface of the water dead ahead..... My mind raced and my eyes squinted until in a burst of energy..I dove over the bolster, chopped the throttles back and turned the wheel hard left simultaneously (obviously not a step bottom hull). As we settled to a slow crawl we were about 8 feet abreast of a concrete sea wall that was sticking up maybe 3 inches above the flat water surface. It was some kind of protective wall next to the airport...We had been running about 90 aiming straight for this insidious little creation, which would have torn us apart.

I'm not sure if Norville ever fully comprehended what happened as he happily nosed away and took off at full throttle....never giving the incident any thought at all.

You can't make this stuff up.

T2x

Brad
03-05-2010, 11:33 AM
See the Apache thread on the 47' Apache in the Apache section for what the dealer became.
Great thread, thanks!

GENERAL LEE
03-05-2010, 12:54 PM
I'm not sure if Norville ever fully comprehended what happened as he happily nosed away and took off at full throttle....never giving the incident any thought at all.

You can't make this stuff up.

T2x


Whew! It's those times that really make you need to sit down for awhile afterward http://smiliesftw.com/x/ughug.gif (http://smiliesftw.com)

As you obviously know, that could have ended in any number of different ways, all of which would have been catastrophic. It never hurts to have an extra set of eyes helping scan the water while you're out there http://smiliesftw.com/x/cooleek.gif (http://smiliesftw.com)

T2x
03-05-2010, 02:16 PM
As you obviously know, that could have ended in any number of different ways, all of which would have been catastrophic. It never hurts to have an extra set of eyes helping scan the water while you're out there http://smiliesftw.com/x/cooleek.gif (http://smiliesftw.com)

Or as I always say.....

"Two heads are better than one....especially if one of them has something in it."

kewler
03-05-2010, 02:41 PM
a buddy of mine owns this boat and he has not done anything with it yet he has been trying to get the drives and engines that were in the bot and also some rigging if any can help let me know and yes the boat is in Crownsville Md and this thing looks so mean

later
03-06-2010, 11:21 AM
the picture of the bikini girl is the race boat after it was converted to pleasure 92 model i believe. the picture of the all red 47 with white interior catching air ( brochure picture) is the dealer before lettering its a 95 i believe.

later

later
03-06-2010, 11:24 AM
a buddy of mine owns this boat and he has not done anything with it yet he has been trying to get the drives and engines that were in the bot and also some rigging if any can help let me know and yes the boat is in Crownsville Md and this thing looks so mean

if your talking about the dealer boat it originally had 525sc and #3 drives was about a 75mph boat, did your buddy by the boat from michagan

I have always loved that boat and have tried to keep the were a bout of it over the years.

later

fobes
03-06-2010, 11:53 AM
Kewler:
Any chance of getting current pics?

ApachePete
03-06-2010, 06:35 PM
Yes, Ralph did.

Actually, Norvel Staley was the owner.

Sean Stinson
03-07-2010, 08:32 AM
Actually, Norvel Staley was the owner.

Pete is very accurate on his accounts concerning Apache.....Norvel was the owner!!!!

OneBadInjun
03-12-2010, 12:51 PM
Pete is very accurate on his accounts concerning Apache.....Norvel was the owner!!!!yes, that is correct, technically. Actually the floorplan company was the true owner, lol. Norvel cracked me up. To see this guy that looks to be 100 years old, pull up in one of the latest, bright red Ferrari's, dressed like he was a 35 year year old, always put a smile on my face. He was a nice, down to earth guy though, lol.