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CALVIN
11-28-2009, 08:40 AM
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l319/bp2525/swiveldrivesterndrive1939.jpg

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l319/bp2525/1939swiveldrivesterndrive.jpg
Bruster
11-28-2009, 08:42 AM
Got any smaller pics?
WATERWINGS
11-28-2009, 08:58 AM
That is a mighty small drive.......
CALVIN
11-28-2009, 09:55 AM
Sorry bout the pic..its really a stern drive
mk30h
11-28-2009, 10:16 AM
Need a bigger picture, but I think it may be a Johnson from the 30's or 40s. But I really can't see from the picture just to small.

Not a Johnson, something even weirder.

I like the reverse. Was it in production or a one off attempt by a boat builder? Hell something that strange could be Canadian.
specboatops
11-28-2009, 10:17 AM
Got any smaller pics?

Do I hint a note of sarcasm :D:D:D;)

Chris
Bruster
11-28-2009, 10:21 AM
What you mean?


Do I hint a note of sarcasm :D:D:D;)

Chris
tinker060
11-28-2009, 10:33 AM
Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup:

Jon Wright
CALVIN
11-28-2009, 11:56 AM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Antique-Wood-Boat-V-8-Flathead-not-Chris-Craft-Garwood_W0QQitemZ230405190041QQcmdZViewItemQQptZOther_Boats?hash=item35a5383199
mk30h
11-28-2009, 12:37 PM
had to put those drives picts on this site before they are gone.

187921

187922

187923

187924
Mark75H
11-28-2009, 02:59 PM
Before you get thinking this guy invented the sterndrive in 1939: 1931 Johnson from Liquidnirvana's compilation


Click to enlarge:
http://thumb10.webshots.net/t/96/196/0/81/36/2779081360101354590OREyaN_th.jpg (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2779081360101354590OREyaN)
CALVIN
11-28-2009, 05:45 PM
What !!!!..What about Jim Wynne and his volvo!!!!!
Mark Poole ModVP
11-28-2009, 06:50 PM
Charlie Strang gave the basic drawings to Wynne to make the Volvo stern drive happen, 1959 I think. The Mercruiser had so many innovations and patents that no one else could touch their ideas until 1986. That is when the Cobra came out. It had so many built in problems it was doomed from day one.
Mark75H
11-28-2009, 06:53 PM
Charlie Strang gave the basic drawings to Wynne to make the Volvo stern drive happen ...

Because he couldn't talk Kiekhaefer into it :eek:
bernie
11-29-2009, 02:45 PM
I know from a recent article in the Antique Outboarder magazine that the AOMCI puts out it is a Reilly outdrive, made in CA by the guy that built cylinder heads and speed equipmet for things like Model A Fords.
Probably can't post the article without permission from AOMCI.
Mark75H
11-29-2009, 02:56 PM
The refutes the claim that the drive is a Bossen drive and is most likely better info than the seller has
lilabner
12-01-2009, 11:36 AM
Doesn't look like the Riley Stern drive at all..
LIQUID NIRVANA
05-08-2012, 08:41 AM
The 1931 JOHNSON Tilting Stern Drive Brochure.

http://issuu.com/liquidnirvana/docs/1931_-_johnson_tilting_stern_drive (http://issuu.com/liquidnirvana/docs/1931_-_johnson_tilting_stern_drive)