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I must agree. For that price you could easily have a dozen Elgins or similar (kind of undesirable) motors, which would be somewhat finniky if you intend to actually USE it for purposes other than having fun with an old outboard. That being said, I have had decent success trolling with “the beat up 5.5 HP with the sears logo embossed on the rope start, that runs with a few pine needles in the fuel tank”-roughly quoting the Antique Outboard Book with a few words missing or wrong because i’m quoting off of memory. It sure runs as good as or better than a lot of motors made in the last 40 years, and I got it thrown in on a package deal, so I am certainly not complaining.
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