Welcome. Call Bill or Nancy at Allison Boats and ask about ordering either of those. Or you can talk to Glenn at Reynolds Racing in Tennessee, nice guy and an Allison dealer. I absolutely love my Grand Sport and you will too. Good luck, I hope you are able to get one. You will love it like I do. By the way, I am a police officer also, 44 years so far. Thanks for your service.
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I called Bill and Nancy at Allison.
It seems like several forces have really changed the market for them.
First of all, bass boats have become a really big thing, and have basically displaced outboard sport boats of this size in the marketplace. But I'm not looking for a fishing boat.
Bill said they quit making the smaller/lighter boats because Mercury quit making the 2-stroke engines that worked so well (because they were lighter). That's really unfortunate. Chasing 80 mph with a 115-horse SS-2000, or a 150-horse XS-2003, sounds like fun to me.
They said they still have the molds for the XS-2003, but Nancy said they haven't built one in years, and that they wouldn't be able to build one now even if they wanted to, because they don't have enough parts to do so, and they've lost a lot of parts suppliers.
We also discussed their web site, and Nancy explained that they're having to rebuild the entire web site after a falling out with the person they subbed that work out to.
Nancy did say that they are developing a new larger Grand Sport that can handle todays 300-horsepower engines, but one of the things that has always appealed to me, is that Allisons didn't need big expensive engines to go reasonably fast. I don't think it would be nearly as much fun to have to pay for a $35K 500-pound engine to make a new larger heavier Allison do 80 mph.
