Re: Serial number range Johnson 18 hp

[rschiff]

Richard,

I recently had same issue. My ’57 FD-11 has a serial number out of the range for 1957. Serial number falls into an FD-12 range. I still don’t exactly understand the rationale but apparently they made a bunch of late year motors for holiday and boat show sales. It seems to me that they would have just kept going with the serial numbers but for some reason they stopped them on paper and kept making more motors but this is illogical and surely isn’t the reason. Just my 2 cents.

Robbie

Below is my earlier post and some great responses.

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