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Stole it! They are great motors as well as being, in my opinion, the prettiest Johnson ever. Some people say they use too much gas, but if you look at the price of new motors, you can buy a lot of gas by using an older motor and look cooler doing it! They are the "holy grail" of 50s motors to some folks, so if you don’t want to keep it, you’ll be able to sell it easy. Yours will clean up pretty well, and you could touch up the white on the cowl and it would look even nicer. I did it to mine, and if you spend a little money and get the right shade of "Johnson white", it will blend in fine. There are companies that specialize in outboard motor paint, and it is well worth it, especially on a nice survivor like yours.