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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:42:44 -0400, HK wrote:

Anyone remember these or actually have one?

I did!

One year my father found one new in its box left over from some previous
seasons and we used it on a dinghy.

It was just a 3 hp Evinrude, but it was painted a flatish brown instead
of Evinrude blue. Your basic outboard, with a horizontal lever throttle
and if you wanted reverse, you turned the motor around on its bracket.

Here's an old ad from a website:

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2376...91848696oDpuFD


Not a Ducktwin, but an old Evinrude. When I was a kid, there was an old pre-cowling Evinrude in the
basement of a house my folks bought. It was a real beast. You had to manually wrap the pull cord to
start it. IIRC, it was @ 20 hp. Anyway, my Dad decided to put it on our rowboat that normally held an old
Elgin 7 1/2. Man that sucker was loud, and scary fast for a 7 year old. It didn't take him long to blow it up
though.



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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:42:44 -0400, HK wrote:

Anyone remember these or actually have one?

I did!

One year my father found one new in its box left over from some previous
seasons and we used it on a dinghy.

It was just a 3 hp Evinrude, but it was painted a flatish brown instead
of Evinrude blue. Your basic outboard, with a horizontal lever throttle
and if you wanted reverse, you turned the motor around on its bracket.

Here's an old ad from a website:

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2376...91848696oDpuFD


Not a Ducktwin, but an old Evinrude. When I was a kid, there was an old pre-cowling Evinrude in the
basement of a house my folks bought. It was a real beast. You had to manually wrap the pull cord to
start it. IIRC, it was @ 20 hp. Anyway, my Dad decided to put it on our rowboat that normally held an old
Elgin 7 1/2. Man that sucker was loud, and scary fast for a 7 year old. It didn't take him long to blow it up
though.





That engine probably dated from the late 40's...maybe.
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:37:12 -0400, HK wrote:


That engine probably dated from the late 40's...maybe.


Can't say. They bought the house in 1955, and by that time it looked quite used. I was looking to see if I
could find a picture online, but couldn't. It did look similar to this, IIRC, but it had a tiller not the high tech
steering on this motor.

http://www.infoblvd.net/sah/OMC_Motors_5a.html
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:37:12 -0400, HK wrote:


That engine probably dated from the late 40's...maybe.


Can't say. They bought the house in 1955, and by that time it looked quite used. I was looking to see if I
could find a picture online, but couldn't. It did look similar to this, IIRC, but it had a tiller not the high tech
steering on this motor.

http://www.infoblvd.net/sah/OMC_Motors_5a.html



That looks like the 50-hp Big Four that Evinrude came out with right
after WW II. It's ancestor saw service in the war on the back end of
small troop assault boat.s
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:19:05 -0400, HK wrote:


http://www.infoblvd.net/sah/OMC_Motors_5a.html



That looks like the 50-hp Big Four that Evinrude came out with right
after WW II. It's ancestor saw service in the war on the back end of
small troop assault boat.s


I'm going on a childhood memory, but this motor wasn't a 50 hp. Hell, that would have sunk the
boat. ;-) Twenty-something was the number I recall, and it definitely had a tiller. I also can't remember
the number of cylinders. It was probably just two, but it was a very loud two. Do you have any idea when
they started putting cowlings on motors? I had thought it was pre-forties.


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http://www.infoblvd.net/sah/OMC_Motors_5a.html


That looks like the 50-hp Big Four that Evinrude came out with right
after WW II. It's ancestor saw service in the war on the back end of
small troop assault boat.s


I'm going on a childhood memory, but this motor wasn't a 50 hp. Hell, that would have sunk the
boat. ;-) Twenty-something was the number I recall, and it definitely had a tiller. I also can't remember
the number of cylinders. It was probably just two, but it was a very loud two. Do you have any idea when
they started putting cowlings on motors? I had thought it was pre-forties.



You mean the full cover type cowling? I really don't recall.

If your old engine was a two cylinder, it might have been the 22 hp
Speeditwin. I'm no expert on this. We used to have one around here, but
the female horse's ass from australia chased him off.

Another problem is that evinrude reused its names. There were several
Speeditwins of various horsepower.
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:37:12 -0400, HK wrote:


That engine probably dated from the late 40's...maybe.


Can't say. They bought the house in 1955, and by that time it looked quite used. I was looking to see if I
could find a picture online, but couldn't. It did look similar to this, IIRC, but it had a tiller not the high tech
steering on this motor.

http://www.infoblvd.net/sah/OMC_Motors_5a.html


I believe that is a Evinrude Big Four and it's beautifully restored.
They were 60 horse if I remember right. The neat thing about those is
that you could throw it in reverse by adjusting the timing.
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