My Falls Flyer Story I was checking out a local bargain news website for interesting boats about 10 years ago when I spotted an ad for a 1957 Thunderhawk in a town about an hour from me. I called the guy and he said he got the boat from a yard sale in Pennsylvania and didn't know what it was but after searching the Internet, found a photo of the boat. He then went to the CT DMV and was able to get a new title written (I'm still not sure how he managed to do that). I arranged to meet him and see the boat, which was upside down in the snow in his backyard. It definitely wasn't a Thunderhawk, but I wasn't sure what it was. Even so, I bought it because I thought it was a cool boat. I also scanned the Internet for information and discovered that he had mistakenly identified the boat because he had looked at the wrong caption on a site listing several of Larson's models. The boat was a Falls Flyer (probably an early 59 or even a late 58...Barnacle Brad says it has the "early style" glo-pole bases), not a Thunderhawk (Jr. or Sr.). The hull was stripped bare but he did have some of the trim in a bucket in the garage and we had to go to his mother's house to find two pieces of a broken windshield, but most importantly, the glovebox. Since I dragged it home I've transferred it to a 1959 (?) Holesclaw trailer which is perfect for the boat and added a 1959 dockbuster 600 Merc that I bought on a trip to Quebec...a motor that was claimed to have never been on any boat other than a Falls Flyer (Brad and I would still like to get that boat into the states...it actually belongs to him but may be at the bottom of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the victim of an alligator attack...it's a long story). It still needs complete restoration but I've made several new parts for it (tail light lenses, glo-pole tops a new plastic dash center section) and have picked up a number of used and NOS parts for it like a speedo and the correct Attwood steering wheel (short version) and bow light and airplane style deck hardware. My good buddy Brad has allowed me to use the rare tailfin covers from his Flyer to make sand molds and cast new ones for mine. I've also recorded all the trim specs from his boat so I can eventually get matching aluminum pieces together to complete the restoration. I guess one of the coolest things about the boat is that it has a very unusual color combination (under the chaulky white house paint). Paul Larson would allow customers to choose custom color combinations from his gel coat colors (although, of course, most people bought their boats from dealer stock in the standard colors, custom colors, I assume, being an additional charge and wait). White and red was a popular standard combination, featuring white topsides, red side stripes and white and red striped hull "lapstrakes", but this boat was manufactured with Desert Sand and red colors instead, Desert Sand being a beige color and available on other Larson models but not listed as available for the Falls Flyers.