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Recently Discovered on Ebay - 1965 Hallett Flatbottom Drag Boat with original
427 FORD Hi-Riser heads, side oiler FE block.

ebay Item number : 290615279964 (auction has ended - no bids)

Specifications:

• Family owned for over 40 years.
• Boat was originally built by Hallett as a turn-key
• package with a medium riser 427 FE Ford, this is the original engine.
• Hi-Riser heads and Hi-Riser dual quad polished intake manifold added in the 70's.
• This motor is extremely rare and collectible. This is the engine that won on every race track in the 60's for Ford Motor Company, at the drag strips (Thunderbolts), road racing (Street Competition Cobras) and NASCAR (Woods Brothers).
• Ford rated a stock low riser 427 at 435 horsepower.
• The hull is fiberglass with the original green metal flake gel coat.
• All engine hardware is polished Edelbrock with Nicson wet exhaust manifolds with polished over transom extensions and Supertrap adjustable baffles. Set of open headers included.
• Adjustable cavitation plate with over ride pedal, Jones tachometer and Stewart Warner gauges.
• Hall-Craft In & Out box. New bench seat being built in pearl white with green medal flake pleats. Tandem axle trailer 4 new tires.
• All original old school classic

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Recently discovered on eBay is this wild old school hot rod drag boat, built in 1965. This was a turnkey drag boat offered by Hallett. It’s a flat bottom hull design, but the coolest thing about it is the engine, it’s none other than one of Ford's famous 427 side-oiler engines. To add to the cool factor it’s the original, never blown up, just upgraded in the ’70s with a cylinder head and intake manifold swap from the original medium riser heads to the high riser heads and intake.

This was the engine that Ford took 30 NASCAR wins with over Chevy and Chrysler in 1964. It finished the 24 Hours at LeMans dominating 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in 1966. It also won the 1964 Super Stock Title in NHRA, in all its variations from Low, Medium, and the High-Riser versions, the 427 FE engine has set records in numerous forms of competition.

It’s the engine that powered the Shelby Cobra and it has found its way under the hood of most body styles that Ford produced like Galaxies, the notorious Thunderbolts, Fairlanes and was even available in wagons and sedans as special order. Just knowing the history of the engine and the era when this boat was built, you know this had to be a pretty expensive toy, even back then.

As you can see this boat has been kept in amazing condition for its age, and you have to wonder if the present economy has thrown caution to the wind, because as the auction closed it had yet to receive a single bid.