I saw my first X motor in person last weekend.
Short story: crazy world.. So, i'm driving in a residential neighborhood going to pick up a cheap single trailer and on the way in I see a nice double trailer with a 97 GSX on it in some guys front yard. So I stop on the way out and the guy is sitting out front in a lawn chair looking bored, I pull in and say:
Hey... U interested in selling that ski ?
Nope, you don't want it, nothing left inside
no computer, no pump, ?
nothing... its going to the dump tomorrow.
so, we what for a minute I tell him I'm interested in buying a ski, running or not, so he gets this silly grin on his face and says "follow me" so we head behind the fence into his back yard, he has a LEAST 20 ski's parked on trailers, dolly's, stands, sitting on the ground in various states of condition. 10 of them are under tarps, he has at least 3 superjets, complete, a couple of triple pipe polaris ski's, 3 blasters, and a 95xp800 with the original X motor, UMI, sponson's, etc, start's right up. I ask him to put a price on it and he says "nope" not for sale, bought it new.
After a few more minutes of small talk, he now know's i'm a Water Bug so he smiles and says:
"U wanna see my Nice ski's? come around to the garage "
inside his garage he's PACKED with SJ's, freestyle Kawi's, a mint blaster with a 1,000 paint job, and boxes and boxes of parts, spare engines, pumps, at least 20 ebox's, etc... Turns out he built freestyler's back in the day, his wife was world champ back in the 90's (no sh1t!), a total Jet ski junkie dream pile of 2 stroke goodies !!!!
we never did hammer out a deal on anything, since obviously he knew what everything was worth, and didn't want to part with the ski's that I really had interest in, but you can be dam sure I saved his phone # and gave him mine since there will be opportunities for us to do business.
Crazy small world, this little nondescript house on a 1/4 acre lot with easily 30K in inventory scattered around, maybe more.