1958 Ancarrow Patrician For Sale On Facebook Marketplace
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If you are looking for one of the coolest, rarest, and insanest boats made back in the day. Here ya go. The Ancarrow Patrician, okay any Ancarrow is there in that small family. And they were made right down the street…okay highway from me in Richmond VA.
Or just one click, not a military click, but a digital click away on Facebook Marketplace, the wild wild west of flea market type selling. Every now and then, something magical appears, and today its this.
Now, the seller feller is part of our crazy community and has shown the boat in Lake Geneva and other places. And when you restore a boat like this, you kinda become THE EXPERT so I am sure some of that swagger also comes with the purchase.
Now to add to the coolness factor, even though it has IL hull registration numbers, it’s being listed in RICHMOND. Like a full circle thing. And if you wanted it, maybe you could arange to make the deal right where it was made. Thus really doing a circle thing. Like the last 66 years were just a click away.. RIGHT HERE ON FB MARKETPLACE
There is a condo complex there now, but also a coffee shop. So you could do the deal there. Hell, I’ll come take a picture of the deal if that happens. Like with a camera from 1958. Hell again, I am from 1958 and can bring the Shop truck. A 1958! We can all watch our heads explode! BOOM!
I saw that too. It is cool but just a tiny bit out of my price range. I do like the fact that you offered to record the deal in photos. It takes a little of a bit out of the price! Im still giggling about your last paragraph and the imagery going on in my mind!
I am sure there is some sort of VORTEX that could trigger
Looks like a beautiful restoration, but I agree with Dan that the price is pretty steep. I also don’t know if I am ready for a “Chris Craft Killer”!
That ad copy writer sure used some over the top descriptions of their boats in the Ancarrow brochure…. even had to look up “inimitable” 🙂 ” and the unequalled , inimitable Aquilifer” .. and yeah , just a tad outta my budget,but nice.
So it is advertised in Richmond, but the type says “Located in northern Illinois”.
Cool boat, but being “Built of mahogany plywood, …” it’s basically a CC Cavalier. Put it up against Termite Terror or WHOOPS and see what happens.
Several Ancarrow family members live in my neighborhood here on York point Virginia. I have often talked with them about the family boat legacy. Looking at the photos that prop is not something you see on Classic Boats. It looks like a one-off CNC machined ACME propeller. High blade area with overlapping blades, clever trailing edge. Often employed when there are cavitation problems. Tip clearance looks very small also. You think the boat is expensive! That prop, if my impressions from the photo are valid, could be 10k or so. The boat and the engine don’t suggest a prop like that is needed.
Wow Gary! You can tell all that from the one photo! I am impressed! I know very little to nothing about props, other than a good one can be expensive. We have some very cool experts on boat “stuff” in this group! I learn something new almost everyday here. Once again, I am impressed!
I visited the shop with my dad many years ago ,they made some outstanding boats . I contacted the grandson and he has one of the models with the big hemi engines . I think they promoted the all their boats would run 60 mph.
I miss spoke it was a single Chrysler HEMI , maybe supercharged .
In my youth I met the late and great Newton Ancarrow. He was a visionary in many fields. Had a strong interest in environmental things way before they became mainstream. Set several world speed records on the James River in Richmond…sold boats to Sultans and the $$$$ He was passionate about the cleanup needed in the James River…and famously once got hauled out of a City Council meeting for bringing in a jug of the filth he dipped up right at his landing and boat shop and pouring it on the state…story went that among the sludge was a condom. Newton worked up a great book about the flora on Williams Island in the James…that is where I met him. John in Va
Newton himself, explaining to a group of young executives just how efficiently the Archimedes Principle works with twin Cal Connel Cadillac Crusader engines. The hull of the Patrician was much more than a Cavalier, being designed by Norman Lauterbach.
Lee, Good pic of Newton. Trivia: didn’t he have some sort of odd facial condition or something….seem to recall but sketchy…???
He was a real southern gentleman and very smart man. John in Va.
I think the man on the far left of the picture is Charlie Proffitt (my godfather) he was the primary salesman an appeared in many of the sales brochures . Later he was a salesman for Lawrence Dodge in Richmond, Va
Huge fins!
FYI : Search Richmond Magazine 12-02-2018 ONE AGAINST THE CURRENT , a nice article about Newton Ancarrow ,and his work to help clean up the James River