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B20 color trivia
Posted By: Vic Roy In Response To: Re: Hull stripe colors (Uncle Pete)
Date: Friday, 7 January 2005, at 10:15 p.m.
Well, a warm and stormy night in Coonassland, tired of stripping varnish off the fighting chair, so dug deeper into the UV Bertram scrapbook.
Have an original B20 Bahia factory brochure, undated, but probably pre-68 since shows a 32 gal. fuel tank, and the 68 & 69's had the 50 gal. tank, and 69 model year was the end of production for all B20's. Anyway, that brochure shows the available hull colors as (1) Bertram white; (2) Bertram blue; (3) Bertram beige; and (4) Bertram green. The available chine (boot stripe) colors were white, red, and black. Don't think I've ever seen one with a beige or green hul, but they were available. A beige hulled B20 just sounds pukky to me, but that's why they make more than one brand of beer.
Further digging, I found a full color original of maybe the last B20 factory brochure printed, showing a print date of Jan. of '69. It shows all the models, including the Sportsman and Baron. The pictured Moppie (still could get the Moppie with a hard top) and Bahia both have white hulls and black boots. The Sportsman has a blue hull and red boot, and the Baron, a damn sexy boat to this day, has a blue hull and white boot, and of course, the famous white racing stripe down the middle. Red rolled & pleated bucket seats, racing wheel, cool inst. panel, and big boobied blonde in the companion seat. And you could order it with a big honkin' Holman-Moody V-8 and Bertram smugly boasted it "would exceed 45 MPH". Oh, just to re-live my distant youth for a day or two.
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