This Hornet on Ebay...P & D ???

[Lenny]

http://adcache.boattraderonline.com/6/7/9/79389479.htm

Didn't P & D end up becoming Pantera or something. I can't remember. Anyways, with a windshield and stuff this looks like an interesting project. Too late to be a bench I presume. ???

[Bob]

Sure looks like a Hornet. My BS Hornet was perhaps the last made- mid 1971.

[rustnrot]

What does he mean by "P & D Marine"? Is this a bonafide Donzi or a Donzi splash?

[Lenny]

SPLASH... Bob

[EricG]

According to a thread over on OSO, P&D had nothing to do with Pantera...although somehow that rumor got started, and several boats have shown up on Ebay as P&D's claiming to be related.


Quote from another P&D ad:
Seller writes: "ACCORDING TO PANTERA, WHICH I SPOKE WITH 10 YEARS AGO, THEY SUBCONTRACTED P&D BOATS TO MANUFACTURE 13 OF THESE BOATS."


And Pepe's Nunez of Pantera's response on the same thread:
Please, tellt that seller he is full of it!!!! we never subcontracted any work out. I started the company back in 1975. Later, Pepe.

So, who was P&D?

EG