MIAMI VICE WELLCRAFT SCARAB

n a move that rivalled Decca famously turning down the Beatles (its executives apparently citing that guitar bands were on their way out), Wellcraft said no to Universal Studio’s request to supply a boat for a new. So for series one of a show that quickly became the biggest hit of the 1980s, a Chris Craft Stinger 39 was the power boat of choice for fictional undercover law enforcers, Crockett and Tubbs. Quickly realising the monumental mistake they’d made, Wellcraft execs made Universal Studios an offer they couldn’t refuse and from Season Two onwards, a Scarab graced the dock at Bayside Marina in Miami alongside the boat Sonny Crockett lived aboard, an Endeavour 42 sail boat called .