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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,9:16 am Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Thanks to the members of "Save the PT Boat Inc" for bringing PT-658 back to her former glory. :good

13 years, 10,000 man hours and $180,000 has really paid off because this is the only WW2 PT Boat that functions in the world! :beer

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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,9:50 am Post # 2 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
This is what it started out as. :eek

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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,9:56 am Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
This is how she looks today. :good

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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,10:07 am Post # 4 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Very cool!  Isn't that what Jack Kennedy was on?
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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,10:48 am Post # 5 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
That's a cool proj!!
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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,10:56 am Post # 6 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (My Man's Sportin' Wood @ July 31 2005,10:07 am)
Very cool!  Isn't that what Jack Kennedy was on?

Yep, he was the Skipper of PT-109. :good

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Post Icon Posted: July 31 2005,6:47 pm Post # 7 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Amazing restoration.... :eek  :good  :beer
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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,4:08 am Post # 8 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (shueman @ July 31 2005,6:47 pm)
Amazing restoration.... :eek  :good  :beer

How would you like to ski behind those three 1,500 hp Packard engines? I'll bet it throws one helluva wake! :)

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,6:25 am Post # 9 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Those are badass!. :good
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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,9:30 am Post # 10 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
that's a cool piece of history. glad to see her seaworthy agian. :good

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,9:34 am Post # 11 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Hey, is Ernest Borgnine still alive? Should at least get a shot of him on board...unless it takes as much restoration for him! :eek

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,10:16 am Post # 12 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Pretty cool, my Grand-Pa served on those at the end of WWII.

Thanks for posting this Bob...  :good

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,4:34 pm Post # 13 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Thanks Bob, I love to see WWII era boats and planes :good

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,6:44 pm Post # 14 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
That's pretty cool!.

For many, many years there has been a PT boat moored on the San Joaquin River in the Delta in Nor Cal. Early this summer I noticed it was no longer in its mooring. I certainly hope it has gone to someone who intends to restore it rather than out for scrap.
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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,7:29 pm Post # 15 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
That's pretty cool!! :good  :D

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 01 2005,11:00 pm Post # 16 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
That is one cool a$$ boat.  :good
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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 02 2005,3:15 am Post # 17 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Need some pics with the Bikini Team on it.

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 02 2005,10:52 am Post # 18 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Just need pics of the Bikini Team!!  :D

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 02 2005,10:55 am Post # 19 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (Carrera Elite @ Aug. 02 2005,10:52 am)
Just need pics of the Bikini Team!!  :D

The Bikini team would look a little silly in those big US Navy issue PFD's... :D

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 02 2005,11:15 am Post # 20 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I didn't specify where the pic had to be taken!! But you are right, it would be better if they didn't wear the PFD's for a pic, as long as it was safe to do so!!  :D

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 02 2005,11:31 pm Post # 21 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
They would look hot in anything...

























Or nothing!!! :love

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 03 2005,3:19 pm Post # 22 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Exactly!!  :good   :D

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Post Icon Posted: Aug. 05 2005,3:09 pm Post # 23 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
or nothing :eek

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