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Like Don said interesting things were going on at that time. The designation depended on if the boat company was captured or independent. If OMC owned the boat company then the motor could be shipped as a VJ or VE. In the case of Stratos, Javelin, Hydra-Sports (Murfreesboro, TN) where the boat company was only about 150 miles from Calhoun, GA the motors were not even boxed. They came in on racks. Nothing came with them, but manuals under the motor covers. No bolts or anything! Since most of the boats took jack plates the boat companies supplied their own bolts of the proper lengths. I still have a bucket of bolts that were left over before they started doing it that way. Lots of waste! The motor carton was a big cost just to be thrown away. Also like Don said the idea was not well thought out. They violated their own plans. Wasn’t long before it was tough to figure out what you had as they kept changing the model designation for various reasons. You had to have some idea what decade the motor was in. Everything else still worked.
Dan in TN