Reply To: 1966 20 HP Johnson Outboard advice

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If it has compression and the lower unit isn’t trashed, everything else is an easy fix. I’m looking for one from that era myself. Offer them 75 bucks after you point out the problems and maybe they will come down a little. I’ve found that sometimes the ugliest motors run great, and the prettiest sometimes are pretty because they had problems and nobody trusted them enough to use them much.I had a beautiful Scott-Atwater that would run great until you got it 5 miles from the boat ramp…..I never did figure out what was wrong because I was so disgusted with it, I gave it to somebody I didn’t like all that well. :^)