The new software seems the have almost unlimited room for improvement. The awesome volunteers who push us toward perfection have my sincere graditude.
Welcome to our enthusiastic group of old outboard collectors’ Jerome –
A little background information – My Dad, although majoring in business, was was mechanically inclined and very competitive. He started intercollegiate canoe racing and when Ole Evinrude came out with his revolutionary Elto,, Dad cut the back off his canoe and began racing outboards. He set several records with the Missouri Valley Racing Association (a mid-western competitor to the APBA) and was asked by Ole Evinrude to join Elto’s Experimental Engineering department in 1928. Dad always said “If you want to be successful, find something you really like to do and then find someone to pay you to do it.” He joined Elto and found himself working with an outboard family that included Jim Webb Jake Stern and Bruce Davis. Elto shortly joined OMC and he found himself also working with Engineers from Lockweed,, F.T. “Irgie” Irgens and Denny Watkins. So Dad sa in engineering when they stacked a pare of 30 cubic inch Speeditwins and davaleped the Big Four & Racing 460. Dad’s need for speed put him to work on the 460 and Speed bee. As racing quickly found weak spots, the 460 became the world champion of speed,
32 Big Four
Early 460
Later Big Four
Later 460
