Thunderbird Boat starting up

Why is he speaking to a huge crowd of 10 with a mega phone? He switched on his batteries and his blowers...so...??? Made sur e his oil screamers did not come on...I don't understand why folks want to make boating seem so hard. I have never heard basic boating sound so difficult. "We have two helms??? There is only one helm on any boat. You might have a fore or aft or upper control...you only have one "helm".... thus the phrase..."Captain has 'the' helm"...not "one of the helms". Sorry folks, just an old salt emoting.

A stereo orgasm.  The exhaust alone could propel the boat.  A waste though.  Save those for aircraft and install two Cumming's Diesels of Chevy 572's and go cruising.

I remember seeing this boat in the water when it was berthed at Jack London Square in Oakland, CA, around 1980.

Seriously...we could do w/o the hags in the background runnin' their mouths w/inane conversation.

Bragging cunt

Some of you people are not seeing a one of a kind 1940s custom mahogany boat made to haul people and supplies to a lodge on Lake Tahoe. Yes its probably overpowered, but who doesn't like bigger and badder? It was built for a plush hotel, large lake waves, and to look good. I think it succeeds, and glad it has survived as a classic wooden boat.

Thunderbirds are go..........................................eventually!!

Save yourself some time and just skip ahead to 4:30.

FF to 4:26

rather here the boat than this guy..for petes sake..start the effn thing!

Now let's see it run down the lake with both motors

I saw the Thunderbird in the boathouse at Thunderbird Lodge on Lake Tahoe about a month ago. Beautiful piece of work. The tour of the lodge is cool, too.

He shouldn't have talked so much.

How many gallons per mile ?

I swear I could smell avgas when it started. LMAO

I've been on this boat at Lake Tahoe, it's Absolutely Amazing!!

O.M.G!!! SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE MY VAUXHALL VIVA!!!

Nice pollution.  And this is impressive?

I think I would rather have that boat with its normal marine engines. Having to go through all that crap just to start it negates the reason of having a boat like that.

the P-51s flown by outfits such as the red tails had RR Merlin engines, the P=51s flown in the Pacific had Allisons. RR could not make enough engines for their own needs and licensed out the design. British engineers realized that the P-51 was a great fighter but the Allison engine was a gas guzzler compared to the Rolls so they switched them giving the P-51 the range it needed to escort the bombers all the way to the target and back.