Billgran wrote:


OK, sports fans, who knows what outboard motor part was designed by
McCullouch and was also used on OMC outboards who paid royalties to
McCullouch for each item produced?

Was it a feature/part produced/designed by/during the Scott-A****er era,
up to 1956, or 1957-up? All the old Scott-A****er Literature we had
bragged about being the first with "Full Gear Shift" (F-N-R) so this
would come to mind first. It was a pretty important feature to have...


Bonus question, who from the McCullouch family was married to a family
member of the OMC Board of Directors?

Stephen Briggs (of Briggs & Stratton) was Chairman of the Board of OMC
when he and Ole Evinrude(OMC President) formed the firm back in the mid
twenties. Robert McCulloch married his daughter, Barbara. I don't know
if Briggs' son, Jim was on the BOD, but he was an officer of the company
at some point.


Also, how many folks remember the small 1/2 pint cans of McCullough 100:1
oil that could be used in their outboards?

I remember them, but my dad & grandfather were Pennsylvania crude fans,
and our Scotts & McCullochs got Quaker State SAE 30 or SAE 40 2-stroke
oil mixed at 50:1. Our McCulloch 40 had a nice feature, though, a 10
gallon factory supplied fuel tank!


What was unique about some McCullough outboard sparkplugs back in their day?

I do remember having a place on the engine block to screw in a spare
set... as for the plugs, I recall my father not liking the "360's", or
surface gap plugs, before we even got our V-4 Evinrude with them. The
only thing "unique" about the surface gap plugs was the anti-fouling
feature like on the Champion UL-77V plugs in the Evinrude - a split in
the core. We use the Bosch Silver Sport plugs in the Evinrudes now.


Rob (33+ Years working on OMCs)