I don’t like anything made since Ike was President, all new products are just throw away garbage. Give me quality equipment made by highly skilled, well paid, American workers (and American owned companies) any day! My old outboards illustrate how well we Americans can build something when we try. They range from a 1911 Waterman to a monster 1956 Riley 75hp with electric start. I have over 100 old motors and all of them still run. And they were made to run not by purchasing a new whosemawhatsists or hooking them up to some miserable computer. In most cases all they needed to be put back in service was repairing the well-made mechanical parts they were originally engineered and build with. You think these modern motors will be able to run in 50-75-90 years – I’ll bet not. As a nation I think we need to get back to the type of thinking typified by Ole Evinrude & the Johnson brothers and build things that last, and build them here in the USA!

George and Johnson Model A

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