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Anyone ever heard anything or know anything about them? I have a buddy that wants to rebuild one.
The story I got was they mostly were built as inboards this boat however was built as an outboard for the owners to race somewhere, that never happened and he ended up buying it.
It needs a few things mostly cosmetic it appears it was mostly built out of foam.
Title says its a 24 foot 1975 Imp, Seems to have decent deadrise wondering if worth the rebuild.
Never heard much about them other than they were a price boat it seems. My nephew has one, somewhere around a 30' with twin I/O he picked up cheap. Guess the boat had been babied and was in good shape other than the gelcoat. Saw them around here being sold by car dealers.
IMP is Iola Molded Plastics Company out of Iola, Kansas. They were poopular as sterndrives in the 70's. Their designs have since been modernized quite a bit. Don't know about quality but I am always leery of a boat built inland for running in saltwater. Should be ok for rivers and lakes.
Iola is correct for Imp and they were all I/o's. Largest I ever saw was 23'2' but I think they made one slightly larger. Imperial was built by All Seasons Industries; ASI; out of Indiana and were a price leader similar to Galaxy and Renken. Went out of business first time in the early nineties and second time in either the late nineties or early 2000. ASI also used the name Citation at times, not to be confused with Citation out of South Carolina, though it was fairly similar in size and design.
Correct Aboater, except by the time citation did them, they were splashed from Galaxy hulls that were splashed from Bayliner But there sure were a lot of splashed capris out there eh?
From the late 80s, until about roughly '00, my brother pounded the heck out of a 1984 23 ft Imperial cuddy on Lake Erie. I remember him telling me that one year he logged roughly 60 days on the water. The boat held up extremely well. He ended up trailering it to Florida and giving it to his buddy that lives down there. The stringers and transom were sound when he got rid of it. The boat rode very well. It had alot of deadrise at the transom (more than my 20 degree Grady) and an 8 foot beam. Had alot of bow flair too. That boat caught alot of fish.
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I owed an 1989 IMP 220 W/A Sportfish this boat was ordered w/ a brackit and had a originally a single 150 johnson, 22 degree dead rise @ transom
Hydrolic steer, live wells, fishbox ,pullpit, Raw wash high full transum. A good friend bought this boat new and I went on sea trial day of purchase 15 to 20kt NW Backriver to CBBT 3rd Isl and back no problem made the comment that when he decided to sell give me first refusal. A year later he moved up to a 30' and moved to Southport I bought the boat and have been to Norfolk Canyons ,The Point and many other off shore haunts many many times Larges fish on board 228lbs BF good day out of HI . I'v seen many Gradys, Aquasports, Makos go to the way side , and have been in seas that not many boats her size have or will ever experience, but I still ran her out of Organ Inlet this past summer and she's still a good boat. This is not an Imperial
This is what my nephew has and is quite happy with it. He is hard on a boat.
The Imperial/Citation was built by a mom and pop operation. I live close to the dealer that was their largest distributor in the 80's and almost purchased that 23' Imperial mentioned above. There were a bunch of them around, could be had for 13k new and made a good fishing boat for the $$. On the other hand, there were a bunch of the Citation models whereby the hardware would fly apart in a good chop. My neighbor had one, looked like a Clorox bottle and had more issues than Playboy. Aside from the fuel tank, blisters, gelcoat and overall junk quality, the boat had no resale value. Deservedly so.
Imp or Imperial boats?
