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The 35 Jesse James Conquest, had a "Chris Craft" logo on the boat. Could be this boat? I'm sure Rich, T2X will chime in. Something about a licenseing agreement...??
T2x
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There were no 35 foot Chris Cats of any kind.......
Chris Craft also never actually built any cat plugs or prototypes.
We, Conquest Marine, built a 37 foot running plug, later called Miss Maxon...which never went into production, yet the plug still exists as a running hull...albeit with the "wrong" materials....a basic miracle in wood.
The 35 foot Jesse James, was not a Chris Craft, but rather a full Conquest. Chris Craft "sponsored" the hull because in those days they wanted to put their name on anything to do with the Lavins and us.
The 30 foot Chris Cats were made from one of our Shadow Cats with modifications, (Spec'd by George Linder) which they used as a plug. The changes were made to make the hull more accomodating to big blocks.
T2x
Chris Craft also never actually built any cat plugs or prototypes.
We, Conquest Marine, built a 37 foot running plug, later called Miss Maxon...which never went into production, yet the plug still exists as a running hull...albeit with the "wrong" materials....a basic miracle in wood.
The 35 foot Jesse James, was not a Chris Craft, but rather a full Conquest. Chris Craft "sponsored" the hull because in those days they wanted to put their name on anything to do with the Lavins and us.
The 30 foot Chris Cats were made from one of our Shadow Cats with modifications, (Spec'd by George Linder) which they used as a plug. The changes were made to make the hull more accomodating to big blocks.
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Ratickle
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Any pictures so it can be figured out?
Ryan Beckley
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The 30' Chris Cat Smokey & the Bandit was later named Double Vision at some point, that would probably be it....
Clustergear
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Here are some pictures of the boat I think you are asking about. I think I have pictures of Maxon but have to find them and scan em. I will also post a couple of picutre of 30 Chris Cat, I don't remeber if JD had 2 small blocks in Specal Editon of 2 small cu-in big blocks, I think you could only run max of around 370 cu-in per engine
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Mange
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Allright, then Mikey are just wrong with the numbers. I know a red 30
Chris Cat in Finland 3 man cockpit. I was willing to buy it a few years
ago but it was in very bad condition and seller asked 45000 euro.
They had changed to TRS and 454/420's.
Actually I asked "Smokeybandit" in a other thread if he know something
about that but he never respond.
Mange
Gladhe8er
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The Jesse James pic here is the 35 Conquest. Like T2X said it says "Chris craft by conquest" on the side. The canopied Special Edition is a 35 Jaguar. The open boat is a 30 Chris Cat. These were some of my favorite boats to watch growing up.
Gladhe8er
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Neither actually. It will probably be hard to find pics of the running 37 plug Miss Maxon. It was red/white/blue I believe.
Ryan Beckley
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The Maxon pictured is a 46' Alum. Cougar Vee Bottom......
Clustergear
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I have a picture hanging in the garage of a yellow boat with red stripe near water line that says maxon on the side. It is an Open Class boat and has the number 22 or 23 on front. Unable to get to it at this time Could it be one of the boats your looking for a picture of.
wstultz
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Is this it???
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Ryan Beckley
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Yes.......
T2x
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That is the 37' running plug we built for Chris Craft...it is made entirely of exterior (not Marine) plywood interspersed with glass in the laminates.
It ran very bow high as it was balanced to be a pleasure boat (cabin, etc).....it was fast but always ran in an "unfinished: state.....IMHO opinion it never should have been raced, much less still be in existence.
T2x
It ran very bow high as it was balanced to be a pleasure boat (cabin, etc).....it was fast but always ran in an "unfinished: state.....IMHO opinion it never should have been raced, much less still be in existence.
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T2x
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I don't recall JD ever running in the either the 30 foot Shadow or the 30 foot Chris Cat Special Edition hulls. He throttled the 35 Jaguar very successfully.
The 30 foot CHris Cat had small blocks, the 30 Foot Shadow had destroked big blocks and was always badly balanced and over weight.
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