so how many..

[BUIZILLA]

16's were made in 1987 ? :kingme:

[mattyboy]

according to all the facts I have gathered over the years

the 16 ski sporter was dropped from production during the Chisholm ownership in 1980 possibly due to a pending large lawsuit involving a couple in a 16 who were decapitated jumping the wake of a barge when they hit the tow cable, the suit mentioned something about having a windshield might have made a difference , around mid 80's is when the windshields started to come on the 18 and 22's

it stayed out of production until OMC ownership brought it back as the "sweet" 16 in the 1990 model year so they produced some in 89 for the 90 model year i would think and far be it from someone throwing one together at the factory as a project or a personal boat

but I will stand on my final answer 0

[BUIZILLA]

so a 1987 16' I/O would be unique :biggrin.: :wink:

[mattyboy]

Jim,

in all of my life plus the last 10 years searching and owning a 16 I know they made them in 1980 but I have not seen one for sale or a pic of one i see the 1990's boats all the time, I have not seen any 16 from the 80's so yes it would be a very unique donzi or it could be one of the following an older boat titled as an 87 or it could be a splash either way I would like to know more about it

[BUIZILLA]

follow along here... :rolleyes: :biggrin.:

http://forums.screamandfly.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161440

[mattyboy]

not a 16 i/o or o/b or the tub would have had to be re done for the side by side seating, possibly an 18 i/o from 87 with a plugged transom and some west marine seats??

[smbarcelow]

Don't you know it's rude to ask a seller about something he's selling? :rolleyes:

[MOP]

Some states will grind numbers in to a boat without any, it is possible that somewhere along the line the original reggi was lost and someone regged it with a dated bill of sale. I had a dealer down here that regged the left overs from the year before as the current year, yes he is out of biz and did have problems but never the less there are several boats wrong regged.

[mphatc]

Didn't Cobalt also copy the 16? . . . there's so much about this boat that is not original or correct . . looks like everything was painted over, including the chrome fuel vent . . .

I'd steer a big circle around this:boggled:

Mario L.

[justleft]

Wonder why he got pissed and never posted a HIN ?

[tmdog]

That banger talks in code. Good find. Didn't take much to rattle his cage.

[BERTRAM BOY]

That was painfull. Jim you owe me 10 minutes for sucking me into that.

[Ed Donnelly]

It couldn't be very fast anyways..

Not one hair out of place on Mr. Greek of 87 ......Ed

[chappy]

That thread on S & F is hysterical. "Soljah" :biggrin.: :rofl:

[mattyboy]

to bad he is not real guy
would like to know how that boat runs if it truely is an 18 with a bracket

wonder if I am gonna have to change the scores on the trivia winners that question has been on a few quiz's wow this could be a scandal like the game show scandals of the 50's i mean I can't use white out on the golden prop of knowledge and damn I am out of gold rustoleum ok all you winners don't spend any of the prize money till this is all sorted out