60+ year old thread.

Someday TW might be 60+... Dad's Gen2 Tacoma might make it to 60, as I take care of it for my kids, and a couple two or three year old grandsons... with NHOU frame treatments. 5k miles a year would take it that far, but with a new Yamaha outboard on his Grumman (now Marathon Boat) Sportcanoe, it may see more miles. He and Mom will always be riding with me in spirit...
Got word this morning that probate for my BFF downstairs neighbor is complete, a year and seven months after he passed on to the next dimension. (I know that, as I went into the room at the assisted living facility as soon as I was allowed to collect his 'personal effects' for his personal representative on the Pacific coast. We know where we are going when we cast off this mortal husk... )

 

Hey, I added a 1978 Grumman Sportcanoe to my eBay Motors watchlist, since Dad gave me his 1962 model with a varnished early '70s 4-horse Evinrude and an EZ-Loader trailer that he bought for hauling it with his new 2009 Tacoma.
The 1978 Sportcanoe is listed for "local pickup only" at Poway, and $3850 is reasonable as it's on a trailer with a 6 horse Mercury outboard, with the poly gunwale caps and dead grass paint options. A new built-to-order Grumman Sportcanoe is $3999 plus truck freight, without adding the optional paint cost (or trailer, oars, outboard engine, and other stuff).

This is Grumman's lighter weight version of the Maine Guide Boat.

 

I have found that if you use brand new batteries you have better luck. Those that were slightly used but removed, forget em.