I really like the green Elgin’s. There’s a reason there are so many of those motors around you know, they were very well engineered and very strong runners. That, along with ”Sears easy payment plan” made them sell like hot cakes.
I used to never pay attention to them, and always passed them up, untill one day I spotted an ultra clean one in a customers garage. After telling me the history of the motor, and that his dad was the original owner, I bought it. After doing the usual service work to get it running, I was amazed at how much power it has ! Strangely enough, it’s one of my favorite’s.
At 7 1/2 hp, and mounted on a 15 ft. Deep C Alumacraft, with myself, my son, and the 2 other motors riding along, it would plane us out. Using the hillbilly tiller extension, we were moving right along.
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