trainfan1 wrote:
: Tom wrote:
:It's a McCulloch. The Los Angeles based chain saw manufacturer took over
:the Scott-A****er company from the namesakes in 1956, the name was soon
:shortened to Scott, & by 1964 it was McCulloch. Same company, just a name
:morph. Your 7.5 was based on the popular "Fishing Scott" rooted in the
:late 50's into 60's production.
:
:
: And didn't Scott start the low profile look to fishing motors?

: Yes.

: I remember
: them making a big thing of the built in bailer back then.

: A long-time Scott / McCulloch feature.

: I also remember
: the big Scott's as being rather noisy. A high school buddy of mine had a
: Crestliner with a 35 hp Scott and it was much louder than the Evinrudes we
: ran on our boats.

: 30 & 33 hp, then 40 hp, there was no 35hp Scott / McCulloch. They were
: noisy, the cowls were much simpler than the clamshell OMC brands, but
: Scott had fiberglass cowls starting around 1957 and Johnson/Evinrude
: caught up a couple of years later. The Johnson/Evinrude 35 & 40 went to
: a complicated noise reduction system involving an outer metal shell, & a
: large doughnut gasket near the waterline, and an intake silencer in the
: lower cowl. They were quieter, the Scott / McCulloch kept the simpler
: design that OMC retained for the value-orientated 28hp & 33Hp, and the
: Gale 35hp, w/o the full silencing treatment.

My dad had a 75 HP McCoullough. 3 cylinder. Very high compression and
went like a bat outta hell when it ran (very high power to weitht ratio).
However, it blew head gaskets like crazy and even threw a rod once. He
ended up having to get rid of it due to reliability problems and went to
a 90 HP Johnson that didn't outrun it. It was more reliable though.

b.

: Rob