Genuine Imitation: Order a brand-new, custom-made 007 classic re-creation thingy...Or "I'm ordering a Batboat!"

A company called "Fiber Classic" started taking orders for a brand-new, re-created, classic 007 Bond boat, from "Live and Let Die." If they're building James Bond re-makes, why not an even cooler Glastron: The Batboat?!

Check out the video for a bit of a background, and weigh-in if you think it may be the best "Bond" song ever, as well. Short of the theme, of course. (Don't want any 007 fans to shoot me with a fake pen at a convention anytime.) 

The soundtrack morphs into the re-make by Guns and Roses, and then shows how to get a "New" old boat:

Yes, you can now get a fresh off the shelf, brand-new, fake, recreated-from-scratch version of one of the coolest boats ever made: The Glastron GT-150. This is one of the first "muscle boats" for everyman. It was affordable, solid, fun and most importantly, light. With a 50-horse on the tail, it could pull two skiers and get on plane in ten seconds. With an 85-horse, it could beat almost anything on the lake and pull a (dropped-ski) bare-footer. With a 115-horse? It ruled the lake. There are plenty of stories of folks who bought a GT-150, and then went to another dealer and ordered a big ass Mercury 150-horse "tallboy" and "re-stickered" it to look like a 115, for insurance purposes. A few dealers had an extra 115-hp sitting around, and probably made out pretty well. The boats would do over 65-mph with the right prop, trim and lightened up. Tweaked and "greased" - a way of waxing the hull - it pushed 70-mph and beyond. That's cooking on the water!



Why a Glastron for James Bond? It sure helped that Glastron previously got the call for one of the most visible boats in all of media: The famous "Batboat."
The Batboat is seen here undergoing initial break-out runs, with creator and chief engineer Mel Whitley at the helm. It is a fascinating story behind the machine(s) and their fate is chronicled very closely at the site. Unfortunately, one of the true original Batboats was turned into a, gasp, CAR! (No, I don't get it either.)






While the other original apparently got lost along the way, and was believed to have ended up in South America.




I can see it now: Kathleen Turner, (now ACTUALLY a horse-voiced, semi-retired, former vixen wannabe romance novelist) who while on "holiday," gets tangled up with a Drug Cartel kingpin. (I hate when that happens on vacation! ) Her old friend Michael Douglas happens to be in nearby Columbia, (undergoing hyper-baric chamber treatments to prolong his life, and allow him to keep up with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones) when he gets the call from Turner. (Squeeze your throat with a belt while mumbling) "Michael, dahling, I'm in it up to my ahm-pits with a silly older fella. Please assist." Then they meet the Drug Lord (portrayed by, hmm, someone lost to time, maybe a slurry-speeched Dick Clark?) Who later tries to outrun "The Federales," and takes them on an exotic river run in the original Batboat, which he hides in a camo shed along the banks. He bought the rare classic with crack money at an auction in Bogotta. As he launches the classic into the Amazon, the bat-theme plays and Turner and Douglas must be stuffed into "lil buddy" Robin's chair. It's an uncomfortable and highly-sexually charged moment for our stars. Then the drug lord proclaims "Say hello to my yill bat-friend!"

No quote yet on my Batboat, I'm guessing twenty large, plus licensing fees. (Of course, I could find a tattered Glastron V-174 on e-Bay in Missouri for $400, drive a 12-mpg pickup down for a delivery, and get into all kinds of adventures along the way...)