Re: 1911 RBM

[Anonymous]

One way to verify whether or not its a 1911 would be to check the castings used to put it together.

If they have numbers cast into them, then it’s a 1912, because there is no evidence that the use of casting numbers were incorporated prior to ’12.

The flywheel doesn’t "appear" to have the Evinrude name cast into it, but it also looks like the seller took some pains to avoid including a completely unobstructed view of the entire flywheel surface in his photographs…. but from what can be seen of the flywheel, it looks to be correct for a 1912 or prior motor.

And I’ll repeat, as a few others have pointed out, the tag is a repop, it still has the protective plastic film stuck to it…. and the number size is wrong for that vintage.

Without the original serial number intact, the best anybody can say about the provenance of this one is that it’s "circa 1911-12". Once the original serial number tag is gone off these skegless models, as far as I’m concerned, so is the ability to absolutely pin down a birth year.

Hey, if anybody thinks that the motor with the repro tag is worth the $4500, just add another $500 US to that and maybe you can have my Evinrude with a real ORIGINAL ID plate that has a bona-fide 3-digit serial number, which would make it a 1910…. there’s no doubt of the provenance of that motor… and I already did all the hard work on it….

Hope this helps.

Best,
T2