On Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:17:34 UTC-3, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 6/3/17 4:02 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 13:32:45 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

Greg had the 1912 Evinrude, signed by Ole Evinrude himself and with
210,000 hours on it.

Funny you say that. I did have a 1924 Evinrude I got for $25 from the
same little old lady who sold me the 1974 7.5 HP merc I used on my 12'
jon boat for years. (both for $300).
I still have the 7.5 but I gave the old 'rude to a collector here. I
am sure I could have sold it for a handsome profit but this was a good
guy who appreciated it. I am sure it is restored to like new condition
by now. It is what he does.



My dad always had some really old Evinrudes in the shop, but I don't
recall what most of them were. I do remember, though, a 50 hp monster
from post WWII that he stuck on a 13' speedboat he built to race around
Long Island Sound.

Found a photo of one:

http://tinyurl.com/y9exrwyc

My "first" outboard that I got to use for the summer when I was about
six was a 1-1/2 hp that I put on the back of a pram. The next summer,
when I was seven, I got a slightly used Mercury Super Hurricane he took
in on trade. It was a 10 hp, but in reality it might have had twice that
much hp. Put it on a 12' Penn Yan.


That old motor strangely looks a bit like my 1954 British Seagull 40 Plus.
http://www.britishseagullparts.com/40Plus.htm