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Model is hand-crafted from wood with planks on frame constructionand ready for displayBRIEFHISTORY
"Rolls-Royce of theSea'', "Stradivarius of Boating" are just some of the phrases thathave been used to describe the Riva Aquarama. The Riva Aquaramawill forever be worshiped.
In 1962, Carlo Riva introduced the Aquarama series of new fastrunabouts. This fast bi-motor has so much charm and elegance thatshe is compared with Rolls-Royce and Ferrari.
Riva redesigned his top-selling Tritone into the Lipicar, a boatperfectly adapted for family water sports. Riva''s RR and exportmanager Gerard Kouwenhoven suggested the name Aquarama instead. TheJet-Set quickly made the boat Europe''s status synmbol.
Power options were a pair of 185-hp Chris-Craft engines or 220-hpRiva V8s.
Later the boat size increased as 8.25 meters and was powered by 2-220 horse power engines.The boat could sit eight persons at speedof 75km/h. In 1966, The firm presented the Super version that is8.45 m long because of the bigger gas tanks necessary for the new320 horse power engines. A total number of 288 boats were built inthe world.
