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Well… I’ll ask the question “how honest do you want to be when it comes time to sell it”?
Because there are collectors who will tell you they’re “only trying to get back out of it what they put into it”, and you’ll have no idea if they’re being truthful with you, or if they scored it cheap and are marking it up to max out their profit. You’ll also learn that there are motor sellers whose word is their bond and they back it up with their actions by treating people fairly and honestly. I’d say you benefited from just such a person with the acquisitions you made today.
That being said, the motors you’ve posted in this forum are likely easily worth a total of 325 dollars. if thats your total investment, then I’ll ask you what you expect for a return on it. If you sold three of them for $100 each and kept the 1922-23 Johnson you’d have almost all your money back and still be keeping one of the best antique outboards plus another one plus the stands.
You got a good deal on the five, so I hope if you decide to sell some or all of them that you pass that good deal along to the next guy. I don’t have an issue with somebody wanting to make a modest profit in return for their time and effort and all that, but I’m not keen on helping anybody decide just how high of a price they think they can flip stuff for when they picked it up pretty cheaply in the first place.
He's livin' in his own private Idaho..... I hope to go out quietly in my sleep, like my grand-dad did..... and not screaming, like the passengers in his car...