I have a 1975 Tahiti Super Tiger with a 455 Olds that has been through a lot. It has been on the bottom of Lake Michigan, dropped of the trailer onto the middle of a busy 4 lane highway and has a bottom full of gelcoat blisters from being left in the water all summer in Lake Lanier. But despite all that it still ran 64.5 on the GPS
I think that Old Rigger's story about droping the boats off of dollies into the street was just their way of stress testing the boats under real world customer conditions http://free.***boat.net/ubb/smile.gif
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