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03-19-2003, 11:50 AM #1
STV History
Can someone give me the low down.
When were first production models introduced
what models
where have they been built
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03-19-2003, 12:47 PM #2
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03-19-2003, 12:57 PM #3
SS
Thanks, that takes ya to 1996, then what ?
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03-19-2003, 01:20 PM #4
Jeepers NUT...
Stil not happy
Mid 1996 the company was bought by the Carpenter Brothers in Mississippi,
Sometime around 1999, Mr. Lamkin of Triad Boats took over the rights of producing them to present.
Hows that???
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03-19-2003, 01:26 PM #5
doesn't stv history go back to the mid eighties????
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03-19-2003, 07:02 PM #6
Roark's predecessor was the LTV! Now I'm far from an expert but I think the LTV was a bit dangerous above the mid 80's from what others had said. Also if I was Roark then the STV was the next evolution in his boat building days. Any LTV owners around?
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03-20-2003, 12:06 PM #7Rusrog Guest
Roark was
at Laser Boats in Roanoke Tx through the early to mid 80's. If I am not mistaken he was one of the founders of Laser Boats.....
Anyway... He designed the LTV and eventually left Laser to start STV (taking the LTV raceboat with him). Chris Bush made the STV needle nose hull a race winner and then Roark designed the STV Sprint boat and started his re-finement of that boat.
The old Laser LTV was a good running boat up into the 90's and I know of a few that ran over 100.
That's how I have always heard it anyway....
Russ Rogers
Ft Worth TX.
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03-24-2003, 08:52 AM #8
Early Laser history
Roark came to Texas in the mid 70's , after a stint with Hydra Sports, to build bass boats with the backing of Sam Harris,a long time drag race trailer builder and bass boat enthusiast. They built boats under the Laser name in Grapevine and Roanoke and were very successful. Roark took over Laser completely in the late 70's and built the famous 19 V and a similar 15V race/ pleasure boats thru the early 80's. The LTV evolved in the 1982/3 period after the ModVP class got popular. Roark eventually sold Laser around 1985 and moved to the Nashville,Tn. area to build Stratos boats under Earl Bentz.
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03-24-2003, 12:38 PM #9
"Roark eventually sold Laser around 1985 and moved to the Nashville,Tn. area to build Stratos boats under Earl Bentz."
How does his building of the STV's in Nashville fall into this time frame. Isn't he at Triton now and isn't that Earl's company also?Membership upgrade options: http://www.screamandfly.com/payments.php
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03-24-2003, 06:50 PM #10
Laser-Roark time line
He went to Nashville from Texas to help design and build the first Stratos under Earl Bentz and when OMC bought Stratos he moved on to building STV's in the late 80's. I guess he and Earl got their sacks full at Stratos. When Earl started Triton he got ahold of his old friend Roark to help him with design and production at the new company. STV was sold and Roark is still with Triton. The interesting side bar is that Alan Stinson(who has lots of racing past) replaced Roark at Stratos. Stratos actually built a version or two of the original LTV as a pleasure boat when Roark was around. Even more interesting is that when Roark was still in Texas he got Bill Seebold to build a 23' IO plug version of the LTV. The plug ran OK but the molded version seemed to be heavier and was a bit of a Dud. I don't think it ever went into actual full scale production.
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03-24-2003, 08:01 PM #11
what got him to build a recreation boat?
'90 STV
'96 260
under construction
for far too long
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03-24-2003, 09:07 PM #12
Rec . Boat
Money, It's tough to make money selling only race boats.
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03-25-2003, 08:56 AM #13
RISK Factor
Although some don't come right out and say it...but the longer some of these guys build performance products... the higher the risks get... as boats get faster, and owners get greedy...which means more stress for the builder.
One performnace builder had someone sue him cause the boat did not go as fast as he claimed after the first time out...another got sued cause the teenage son ended up in the hospital, after driving daddy's fast boat....
Although they (the builder) got off in the end...who needs that hassle and the lawyers fees!!!
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STV history
I believe Chris ran the STV composite hull 1 year and at Augusta lapped everyone but Rusty, then the following year he asked Rusty to drive for him when Chris moved up to F1 with Chatfield then Rusty went on to win 6 or 7 world championships before he went up to F1 in a plug tunnel boat Roark had built and I believe Chris also ran this boat, damn thats close to 20 years ago now!
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10-18-2005, 10:22 PM #15
fishin' boat
Who remembers Chris's LTV "Fishin' Boat"?
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