I got it in the fall. Unlike most motors, where you don’t know anything about its past, this tag reveals some of its history. I don’t know why I didn’t just through it away. After noticing what appeared to be some writing, I cleaning off the coating that covers this motor to see that, Lloyd Jones ( I believe somewhere is Nebraska) had it tuned up around July 31, 1961. Other than “to go with” I can’t make out anything else. Anyone able to make out some other part of it? Aside from the melted remains of what must have been sparkplug boots, the “new” plugs look to have never been fired. It would seem it hasn’t been run since then. Going by what covers this motor, it got put in an open building like a hay barn or machine shed where it was out of the rain, but little else. As the years went by, dust would collect on the motor. On those first warm spring days the motor would sweat, turning each new layer of dust into this hard crust. Its not on the gas tank, so maybe the tank was covered.  Its not known just when it left that storage to get “thrown” on a trailer, with a bunch of other motors, for a trip to western Illinois. That’s where it came to me. The gas tank, muffler, and exhaust pipe, have dents in them. Some of the dents in the gas tank may be a result of its most recent trip. Everything that is suppose to move, choke/throttle lever, gas cap, petcock, transom clamp thumb screws, magneto, are all frozen. I can just barely turn the motor, but once it moved I stopped. This is going to be a real interesting motor for me as I have never had one. While it shares many parts similar to those on the early Johnson’s, the gear case is only found on this and one other model. Neither motor is very common.  This thing is really a mess. I can’t wait any longer to get into it!!! Tubs