Reply To: Champion Tandem 33

[LIETHA RONALD]

MIKE: I should add that basically the Tandem sets were just Sweet 16’s with different decals & serial #nd I.D. plates. Of course what make this all rare is the Dual Champion Controls & all the cables & mounts & proper cable ends to hook it all up for front cockpit control & the dual fuel lines & fittings to the Single Champion Remote Tank. The singular Sweet 16 also had that set up, but it is just doubled on the Tandems. VERY FEW Tandem’s were ever produced & sold. Today it is nearly impossible to find a complete set & they are a “Saw Horse Queen” collector set which I would never rig on a boat & Run, just to rare & they make a excellent display mounted on a era boat, of course. I think as they did not have electric start it would be to “Busy” to have to start each motor individually & then crawl up to the front cockpit to work the remote controls. It would take a very dedicated 50’s collector to be willing to do that.??.MY opinion only, of course.. Champion went out of business in 1957 & I think it was a novel idea, sort of a “Last Hope”, to get that H.P. to compete with the big boys & thus sell more motors, but it never worked out & they went bankrupt.
Ronald