On 6/4/2017 1:03 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 18:16:43 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 6/3/2017 5:17 PM, 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


Don't think that's a 50 hp outboard. The spec says "3hp at 3000 RPM.


That is not the same one. That looks newer



I think Harry must have posted and referenced the wrong image. The one
he referenced was definitely *not* a fifty horsepower outboard. It had
a built-in gas tank for cripes sake. Maybe when he typed his post he
missed putting a decimal point after the "5" and meant to say "5.0
horsepower". None the less, the spec on the image he posted said "3hp
at 3000 RPM.

Following WWII outboards fell in the 1.5 hp to 25 hp range.
In 1958 OMC introduced a four cylinder, 50 hp outboard that used a
combination of Johnson designed and Evinrude designed components. The
head was aluminum (from Johnson) and the steel parts were from Evinrude.

When I was a kid I had a fascination with outboards and the horsepower
race between Mercury, Johnson and Evinrude. In those days Johnson and
Evinrude were not the same designs even though they were both owned by
OMC. They marketed different engines in different horsepower ratings.
Evinrude was considered the "higher end" motor and Johnson was the more
bare bones alternative.

Mercury usually won the horsepower rating race every year as the new
lineups were announced. Their "Tower of Power" design won most of the
races and comparisons.