08/30/2026
Our fans clearly have a thing for Ci******es โ and this Cig screams America.
Meet OPC friend and fan Joe Tormey of New Lenox, Illinois, and his 2000 Cigarette 38 Top Gun, wearing a head-turning red, white and blue patriotic paint scheme that looks right at home flying across Lake of the Ozarks.
This isn't a boat that quietly slips into the dock.
It looks fast sitting still โ and the hardware under the hatch makes sure it doesn't disappoint.
Joe's Top Gun is powered by twin Mercury 509s topped with massive 8-71 blowers, putting the power to the water through Mercury XR drives.
๐บ๐ธ 2000 Cigarette 38 Top Gun
๐ฅ Twin Mercury 509s
๐ฅ 8-71 blowers
๐ฅ Mercury XR drives
๐บ๐ธ Red, white & blue patriotic paint
๐จ 38 feet of American offshore attitude
There's something about a pair of blown big blocks behind you that modern technology just can't duplicate. The sound. The vibration. The blowers sticking up under the hatch.
Combine that with the unmistakable lines of a Cigarette Top Gun and a paint scheme that looks like it was made for a Fourth of July run across LOTO, and Joe has one seriously cool performance boat.
Joe makes the trip from Illinois to enjoy Lake of the Ozarks, and when we asked what he likes most about LOTO, he summed up one of the reasons so many boaters keep coming back:
โThere is always something to do โ from poker runs to just coving out.โ
That's Lake of the Ozarks.
One day you're running alongside some of the best performance boats in the country during a poker run. The next, you're anchored in a cove with friends and nowhere you need to be.
Go fast. Cove out. Meet people. Do it again tomorrow.
And whether Joe's Top Gun is blasting across the main channel or sitting tied up in a cove, we're guessing that red, white and blue Cigarette isn't exactly hard to spot.
Joe, thanks for sharing your Top Gun with the OPC community. A blown, big-block, red-white-and-blue Cigarette? Yeahโฆ our fans are going to like this one. ๐บ๐ธ
Now let's hear from the OPC crowd:
Does a Cigarette get any more American than this?
And if Joe handed you the keys for a Saturday at LOTO, are you taking this Top Gun on the poker run or loading the cooler and heading for the cove?
Tag your Cigarette, Mercury and offshore boating friends and show Joe's patriotic Top Gun some OPC love!
๐ธ Have a performance boat with a story OPC should feature? Send it our way. Ci******es, Skaters, Fountains, Formulas, custom builds, restorations and everything in between โ we want to share the boats and the people behind them.
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