When a car is wrecked, salvagers go for what didn’t get hurt in the collision. Same thing happens with boats…or, at least, one boat in particular. This 42 foot long Chris Craft Constellation you’ll see in the video was forcibly beached to keep the vessel from going completely under, yet still managed to take on enough water to damage half of the boat. So, instead of trying to repair the Constellation, it will instead donate it’s two Ford 427 engines to aid in the restoration of another Chris Craft boat. Getting to the engines is simple enough…a chainsaw will do the trick nicely…but once the two big Fords are out of the boat, it’s time to make sure that the engine swap is even feasible. It never hurts to fire them off to make sure that everything is in tip-top shape for the next vessel!
Sawzalls, skill saws are regularly used on fiberglass boats to extract engines and fuel tanks for repair and replacement. The repairs can be done with no loss of strength and look original.
Roadkill – Marine Division.
Couldn’t they have been saved for swapping into Chevys just to piss off those pieces of pondlife that put LS motors into Fords……
Man- If I was Ford guy, I would start scouring Marinas for 427’s. That’s if I was a Ford guy but I am not. Any Hemis around that I might have missed?
I’d like to know just how many constellations where built with twin 427s in them. Hell it couldn’t have been many and from what I can tell they came with what they could get at the time they where built. And most have been repowered probably three times since then… still a beautiful boat.