That’s equivalent to about $14,000 in 2018...Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
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That’s equivalent to about $14,000 in 2018...Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
$14K will get you something in the 150hp range and definitely not a V8 of any kind...............Quote:
Originally Posted by nitro_rat
BRP Evinrude E-Tecs are the popular choice out here in oyster country. These commercial companies have E=Tecs hanging on every work skiff they have and that includes the whale watching boats. They need drop-n-and-go propulsion and can't afford the idle time trying to dig stern drives out of a hull. Mercs? Hardly ever seen on commercial boats. Yamaha? A few (too expensive) Honda? A few more, but they're getting replaced by E-Tecs,Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Great boat, wow Texaco!Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Yes, Texaco use to big pretty big in Sweden. Started 1921 and sold out to OK Petroleum 1994. Changed name to Preem.Quote:
Originally Posted by FMP
https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...2&d=1526670758
:) :)
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More Evinrude V8 power from 1985.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
The 2 X Evinrude V8 boat is my Flying Flipper and the one with a single Evinrude V8 is a Smuggler 28 we sold and rigged for Peter a friend of mine.
Peter could not live with the question why he only had one V8 engine when I had two..
Later same year we sold Peter one more Evinrude and re-rigged his boat with 2 X Evinrude V8 275HP.
He later sold the Smuggler to the Swedish Coastguard.
Last picture.
https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...9&d=1526738140
https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...0&d=1526738155
Another Smuggler 28 rigged with 2 X OMC Sea drive 2.6 liter V6.
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Lasse
did you sell many Sea Drives?
No..a few every year. Was never a big seller in Sweden.
Some boatbuilders like Solvigg Boats use them as standard power.
We did a lot of Sea Drive service.
The V8 4 liter Sea Drive was pretty interesting.
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great concept and tons of clever engineering in them
but I nearly cried when i saw they poked the trim motor through the transom so big mess to alter the height.
...I recall buying numerous 3.6 GT's & XP's in '85 from Second Effort GG for $4200.00 each. As many as I needed at the OEM level. They had, at the time, a large surplus of them, that year & the next. Bought as many as people wanted, but not every body wanted them, as Mercury was still the big preferred multi-engine offshore power of choice in Florida. I tried to sell more of them, as I was getting a great price, but...Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
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Originally Posted by FUJIMO
The fact is from late 1983 and three years forward we shipped thousands of brand new large Evinrude back to the US because dealer pricing was way lower in Sweden than the US..(Yamaha sales was strong in Sweden and no Yamaha in the US)
OMC did not like that but never took action to stop the "gray market" sale.
Scan Marine in Pompano Beach and Outboardland in Marina Del Ray was the outlet for the "Swedish outboard sale"
We also did thousands of Mariner the same way but Brunswick ended that by replacing the distributor in Sweden.
No way a new Evinrude 300XP/Johnson 300GT V8 was priced at $4,200 from Second Effort 1985.
That was the first year for the V8 and OMC was low on V8 inventory all year.
Maybe years later you could get good deals from Second Effort.
In 1985 the V8 was only available in standard rotation and we got the counter rotation kits late 1985, early 1996 .
Pretty complicated process to change the powerheads to counter rotation
and new gears in the lower unit also.
First year for the "real" counter rotation V8 with gear cases only was 1988 when the 4 liter V8 replaced the 3.6 liter.
https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...3&d=1526827710
Pretty incredible...
583 people have shared my Yamaha 425HP 5.6 liter V8 post at Facebook.
Not sure if its correct..but someone said the V8 is shipped to dealer/boatbuilder without gearcase.
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Less chance of a hernia, MobyDick.