Hey Willa you old goat----------That's MY cowbell you show there-------at least, the one on number 22 was mine---------from the minute i got it ,i had OMC cameras waved at me ,begging for me to make it easy for them to take a piccy----so just kept it covered till i was way out on the pond---that was the start of the CRANKY calling--------which makes the cowbell an important piece of outboard and racing history.
Was always deaf after having the noise of that mother coming back down the tunnel, mind you ,i never got the pleasure of driving a stacker with chrome pipes--------definitely OOB in Europe---you would have been drummed out of the brownies if you had attempted to bring one of those over here, so i guess the stacker had to be the winner in the noise department.