9:29 AMKeyser Soze
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I have a really vague and fading memory of my dad getting in to the
store and selling a couple of OMC stern drive boats in the early 1960s,
maybe my memory of the date is wrong, but I do remember the boats and my
dad and his chief mechanic cursing at them that year and in the
following summers when I returned home from college. They were nothing
but trouble, requiring endless service calls, and I recall my dad saying
he had to threaten OMC or Evinrude to get compensation for out of
warranty service calls that he didn't feel his customers should pay for
because the products were so failure prone. Maybe that's where my
disdain for I/O's started.
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Could be. I never understood the whole “stringer” concept. You trimmed it by raising or lowering the enride engine from the inside. But what also cracked me up was that big square gasket in the stringer. Some people had their boats sink here in a local lake due to beavers and muskrats knowing through them. Crazy...