History '59 Chevy with Matching Boat

Saw this picture today, and as I grew up by Lake Geneva really brought back some fond memories !!
So I thought I would share..
These boats are a long lost art..

 

Cool. Was there anything made in the late 50's that wasn't shaped like a rocket?

 

Beautiful. That trailer though, poor Chevy is going to be up to it's fins before the boat floats.

 

We had a 70 HP Mercury outboard like that one, ran on 24 to 1 fuel oil mix and smoked like a mother! Had no gearbox, you started it in gear. For going from forward to reverse you shut it off and the starter spun it the other direction. And they were LOUD, no underwater exhaust through the prop.
Very traditional!

 

Which one is the boat?

 

Sliding tube under the trailer with the hitch lets you move the boat back keeping the car out of the water. Converted many of them . .

 

Only the ugly Nash's my Dad drove LOL

 

Holy Crap, I love that set up! I will donate my kidney to the lush willing to trade for that boat and heap....

 

I built this a few years back
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/chevrolet/biscayne/1777815.html?refer=news

 

awesome combo

 

Looks like the one Spongemop Squaredance took his drivers' test in.