Does anyone know what these retro jet skis are?

[Sundays_Child]

I'd never seen them before... (appear at the beginning of this vid)

http://choppedonionshk.blogspot.com/2009/04/keeps-you-coming-back.html

 

[colingr]

I recall a brand called a Hunter Scooter Ski many years ago. Might be them?

 

[Richard Shead]

Jet bikes usually made by Kawasaki there were around before Jet Skis came about and were quite difficult to ride., still a few around today

 

[KevB]

Wet Bike

 

[Sundays_Child]

Thank you all very much!

 

[TrishB]

Hunter Scooter Ski

Hi SundayChild

Saw your thread.

Yes I do know what these retro jet skis are. I rode on one in the late 1960's! My uncle actually designed and built the first one and marketed them for a short while. He was a designer and builder of racing motor bikes and had this amazing idea to make a 'scooter ski'. I still have the original brochure. I have spoken today to the man who helped market these amazing machines and he had some wonderful tales to tell as to why they never made the big time until the Japanese started manufacturing a similar machine called the Jet Ski. How did you hear of them? TrishB