Re: 1979 arrow glass question
Arrow Glass was a common boat around here at the time along with Invader and some others, like Razorback and Ranger, Quachita, 3 brands from Arkansas. Chrysler was in the act too but that was a very light, thin hulled contraption that they produced in Plano, TX. and I had a new '71 model of that....called a Sport Fury; took me one season to divest myself of that thing....you look at it crosseyed and punch a hole in the thing. Twas the day of the trihull and everybody got in the act. Most looked like the others and probably were built the same; lots of wood in stringers, transom, and deck and yeah verily it was "encased" but that was on the drawing, just like your plans for a concrete slab. Looks good on paper but in reality it can be a lot different and apparently was due to all the restorations required on boats of that era.
The Johnnyrude you have was a later version of the first downsized V4 with upgrades OMC could use off their Loop charged 3 cyls. born in '69 as I recall (Triumph 55 hp was the Rude version) and the big V engine redesign emerged in 1971 as a 100 and 115. In '72 it was the 125 which I bought new and later went to a 135 with the big black billboard decal with wild colors. Somewhere after that they prop rated, rather than power head rated as mine was and it wound up the white colored 115. Fine engines and a lot more fuel efficient than the original OMC V Fat 50 and it's successors up to the 1971 redesign. I had mine for 7 years and had to replace absolutely nothing on the engine give a SST prop rather than the orig. alum. However it was not Loop Charged and couldn't get the extra performance out of a drop of gas.
Hope you enjoy it.
Mark
