I've been at this for some time and am finally getting close... here's some before and after pics of my progress. Boat is a 1988 Donzi Minx.
Try to hold back on busting my balls about the wires hanging everywhere... dash still isn't wired up yet
I made the dash panels myself out of plexi, they are painted in Awlgrip to match the rest of the red on the boat.
The new interior is pearl white carbon fiber, but done in the classic Donzi pleat style. I'm going for the resto-rod feel overall.
Thread: Donzi restoration/update
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02-11-2009 12:11 PM
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02-11-2009 12:14 PM
here it was right after paint...
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02-11-2009 12:30 PM
looks great.....love the old donzi's....my first boat was a donzi 18 with a 289 and omc drive....
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02-11-2009 01:48 PM
New Plexi in the windshield?
Jeff
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02-11-2009 02:54 PM
very nice,great job!!!! Whats the power?
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02-11-2009 03:55 PM
350 chevy... nothing like most of the people here have, but it will do for now (translation: I can afford it)
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02-11-2009 10:30 PM
If you'd spent more time working on it and less surfing the net, you'd be running it in the Keys this weekend
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02-11-2009 11:09 PM
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02-12-2009 01:51 AMIt sure looks a heckuva lot better than when you had it here. I still say my Minx was THE most fun boat I've ever driven. If not, feel free to leave it here.
Great job!
I can still remember what that trailer tongue felt like across the bridge of my nose!
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02-18-2009 09:55 PM
Looking veeeerrrry good. That will be one enjoyable ride, no doubt.
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02-19-2009 08:31 AM
My dealer has Triton hose in stock, what do you need? Hell, I have pieces floating around my shop, might have what ya need...
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02-19-2009 05:57 PMLooks like you have quite a bit of work into that bad boy. Im sure you feel great about it after that transformation. Let us know when its all finished up I want to see some on the water pics of it!
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02-19-2009 06:38 PM
I do have a lot into it, both time and $$. and somehow I'm still married. I had the new exhaust in my bedroom for a number of months. Boxes stacked in the bathroom, interior in the living room, etc.
My brother joked around and said waking up to polished stainless is better than coffee... I don't think my wife agrees
I will post pics of it wet, hopefully soon!!!
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02-19-2009 09:39 PM
Post the pic, let me se what they got here...
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02-23-2009 05:24 PM
Sorry, haven't gotten to it yet, will snap one tonight if I can find the time.
Wife got really sick (8.5 months pregnant too) so I was left watching my 2 YO daughter.
I had the bright idea to have her help me with the boat... I figured it would get her outside and in a contained area inside of it. She was helping me with the wiring until she got bored and dumped my well organized box of wiring connectors on the floor of the boat. she followed that up by putting my heat shrink tubing into the cupholders... of course, the cupholders are not in the boat so she was dumping them into un-obtainable areas of the bilge.
I did manage to get the ignition and fuel pump all re-wired during that fiasco. Fuel pump needs to be replaced though, not strong enough, so I made virtually no progress other than getting new wires dropped
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02-23-2009 06:55 PM
here we go... don't bust my balls on the lack of double clamps, I mis-placed the other 2