COREY: My buddy Bob
today to check out one of the first personal water crafts.
It's a Barracuda hydro-cycle.
And they can be pretty collectible.
How you doing, man?
This gentleman Bob contacted me and is
interested in selling this. - How are you doing?
Hi. How are you?
Doing well.
COREY: So tell me about it, man.
BOB: Well, it's a-- it's a 1969 hydro-cycle.
It was probably one of the first PWCs that were made.
COREY: That's pretty cool.
Someone invented a car.
And then someone wanted a motorcycle for the street.
And some guy wanted a motorcycle for the water.
Any older, it might have been the Flintstones.
Yeah.
BOB: Today I'm trying to sell my personal watercraft.
It's a 1969 hydro-cycle.
Most people have never seen one, compared to the new jet
skis that are out there.
I'm hoping to get $2,500 out of it.
It's kind of funny what I want.
But I need a set of teeth.
COREY: But it's definitely cool.
I mean, it's like basically the first sit-down jet ski, right?
This is from my time when I was a kid just turning 16.
And this was really cool because you
didn't see anything like it.
It was red and white.
You know, if I saw this in a magazine, I was like,
wow, that's like the Jetsons, you know?
COREY: So what can you tell me about it?
Everything on here is original except for the motor.
It's missing, of course, the seat.
It's missing a battery.
It's missing the fuel tank.
Other than that, it's pretty much all there.
The shifter is right here.
That's for forward and reverse.
And then the gas throttle is up here.
COREY: Reverse is pretty key on these things
because there's no brakes on them.
So reverse basically is your brake.
BOB YUHAS: That's true.
So what are we looking to make this thing operational?
BOB YUHAS: The first thing we'd have to do
is strip everything off of it, send all the pieces out to get
re-chromed, pull the motor off.
I would try to get the original 35 horsepower.
What we'll do is we'll remake the Barracuda
decal, re-cable everything, new moldings down the sides.
So, basically, we're pulling the whole thing
apart, rebuilding it, and then going
at it from scratch, right?
That's a resto, yeah.
Yeah, OK.
So what are we talking?
Probably about $4,000.
Ooh. -
COREY: OK.
So what are you going to get for it?
I was asking $2,500 for it.
OK.
I mean, for four grand worth of restoration,
what someone could get for that price after and make a profit,
it's just--
I don't see being able to make any money on it.
I don't have the time or the resources
to sit on something like this and try to sell it.
I appreciate you letting me take a look at it.
Thank you so much for your time.
Take care. Appreciate it, Bob.
Thanks for stopping by.
No problem.
I didn't make the deal.
But that's OK.
You know, I'll take it back.
I'll advertise it.
If it doesn't sell, I'll start to restore it
myself and probably fall back in love with it.