cool Riva pictures

[martinfeletto]

Thought to start a new topic of just cool Riva pictures. I was at Northwest Classic Boats (Dave and Rudy) and saw they had 4 Riva windshields laying out in their wood storage area.

[Don Ayers]

OK, here is a "Cool" picture but somewhat depressing.

This Ariston (late 1958) was found by a diver looking for another sunken boat on Lake Dallas, Texas in the mid 1980's.

The people that found the boat tied a rope to it and drug it up out of the water on to the launch ramp.

The story goes that the boat sat there for a short time in the way of other boats being launch so the people were told to move it.

Not knowing what a rare and beautiful boat is was they decided the best thing was to remove all the hardware and burn the hull.

The story continues; after years of storing the hardware and not knowing what to do with it all of the hardware was sold for scrap metal.

What a shame for a Riva Ariston to end that way.

Thanks to Clay Thompson of Altus Oklahoma for finding out this story.

[oggie43]

Hey Marty:

One of those is mine ... not for sale.

Dale

[martinfeletto]

Yea, you are right, your must have been the one that got damaged by the tractor .....I think they are trying real hard to fix it ...

[martinfeletto]

Hey Don - do you think we should encourage everyone to post pictures here from Tahoe and Sarnico?

Marty