Thanks for the photos. At this point it seems pretty apparent that Johnson definitely made at least some of their electric boxes in the Holiday Bronze so I’m going to paint mine with the bronze. I just ordered the 1956 Holiday Bronze paint from North York Marine yesterday along with the ’56 decals. I like the two tone bronze and white control box pictured above and suspect that is also original? So many details! I’ve included a photo of the Wagemaker Seafarer and a closeup of the Johnson. Since the photo was taken of the motor I have removed the chrome pieces and had them re-plated. They are currently masked off and the embossed details have been painted. I had to cut the original rivets off to separate the side pieces from the cowling. Anybody know where I can find replacement rivets to match the originals? Although the cowling looks really nice the paint is starting to pop off in a few places so I figure while I’m at home “sheltering in place” and can’t take the boat out I might as well repaint it and the lower part of the motor.
