Re: video Champion hot rod

[David Stanton]

Yeah – I want a Champion Class B Hot Rod too, but the couple I’ve seen come up for sale have been over-priced junk. I’d settle for a Sweet 16 too, or the rare Tandem 33 pair! Biggest Champion I’ve been able to get is the 8.4 HP 4LHD Hydro-Drive. I remember drooling over them when I’d go to Swanson Outboard (only 15 miles from me) to get Champion parts around 1980 when Lyle Swanson was still building them up new from the factory parts stock he had. When he sold off the parts and rights to them, he told me he "got tired of arguing with Mercury’s lawyers every time one of his Hotrods won a race"!
Dave