Greetings from Clay Co. MO USA! Going thru some older videos. I'd forgotten all about K&O motors. I had one (forget which), but sold it with some other older gas motors. Anyway, growing up, my parents had an older wooden boat, VERY similar to your wood race boat. It had the green and gold Scott-Atwater 33-1/2 hp Bail-o-matic motor you show. Dad said the only thing faster was the 35 horse Johnson you had, until the 50 horse Merc came out in the early '60's. Thanks again Good Luck and Happy Hunting! Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS on 150,000 subscribers!!!
Nice open; you actually had me fooled with that camera trick using the model in the foreground! That model might actually be worth MORE to a collector than the actual motor! Not at all far-fetched; the real motor might only fetch $100; the model could well go a lot higher depending on scarcity.
I just picked two of these up at a garage sale for $2 each! So cool! One is the Atwater shown here and the other is a red Mercury 55e. So cool. What are they worth?
I think you had polarity on the battery wrong; prop seemed to be turning in the wrong direction for the prop to deliver forward thrust. The model appears to have a LEFT HAND propeller on it; the real motors only had right-hander's - no outboards yet existed that counter-rotated - that would be decades away with the advent of high-HP motors in twin installations. They did have twins back in the 50's but just a pair of standard rotation engines.
Greetings from Clay Co. MO USA!
Going thru some older videos. I'd forgotten all about K&O motors.
I had one (forget which), but sold it with some other older gas motors.
Anyway, growing up, my parents had an older wooden boat, VERY similar to your wood race boat.
It had the green and gold Scott-Atwater 33-1/2 hp Bail-o-matic motor you show.
Dad said the only thing faster was the 35 horse Johnson you had, until the 50 horse Merc came out in the early '60's.
Thanks again Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS on 150,000 subscribers!!!
Nice open; you actually had me fooled with that camera trick using the model in the foreground! That model might actually be worth MORE to a collector than the actual motor! Not at all far-fetched; the real motor might only fetch $100; the model could well go a lot higher depending on scarcity.
👍👌👏 Super cool and kind of cute. Obviously very well made.
That would look awesome on a vintage rc boat
I just picked two of these up at a garage sale for $2 each! So cool! One is the Atwater shown here and the other is a red Mercury 55e. So cool. What are they worth?
I think you had polarity on the battery wrong; prop seemed to be turning in the wrong direction for the prop to deliver forward thrust. The model appears to have a LEFT HAND propeller on it; the real motors only had right-hander's - no outboards yet existed that counter-rotated - that would be decades away with the advent of high-HP motors in twin installations. They did have twins back in the 50's but just a pair of standard rotation engines.
I found a 1948 Johnson 5HP in the garbage a month or so back it fires but I need a waterpump!
waterpumps are pretty easy to find, cool find!
Do you have any for sale right now? Please let me know.
Sadly sold out
Sorry, off topic but what music is playing at 1:10 area
do you ship
+Donald Shellman Jr i sure do!