I’d restore it! I brought it’s cousin – a 1958 35 HP Gale Buccaneer back from the dead and it’s an excellent motor! Photo below – note the blue lower is from a fried donor Evinrude because the Gale had a cracked exhaust housing when I got it. My Gale also was rare because it had a tiller – that tiller may find it’s way onto another of several 35 OMCs that have taken up residence here, or maybe back onto the Gale some day.
Dave