A few years ago I stumbled across this motor hidden under the blown insulation in a customers attic and traded some labor for it thinking I could quite easily put it back into service and I still do and recently came up with some time to try.After a bunch of time searching the web I finally found out what it actually was and now I know quite a lot about them. It reminds me a lot of the British seagull I used to scoot about with on the thames over 35 years ago, a whole bunch of fun and very reliable, in fact I thought it might be one. However it’s not It’s A 571–40 Sea witch in really good condition From my investigation into the motor i.e. put some oil in the cylinder and checked for spark, it’s got strong spark, the float chamber was pretty clean the valve, float were moving free, all this one needs to run is to remove the very light coating of rust and small amount of crud in the gas tank and top off the lower unit grease. However I’ve also seen the price is being asked for ones in way worse condition than mine, I have pretty much no corrosion very little wear and tear and only one very minor dings in the exhaust, these are a collectors item. if I do much of anything to it I could drastically devalue it’s collectors value and my goal is to be in possession of a reliable good working small boat motor of about this power i.e. 1hp ish. With a 10 to 1 fuel mix I think I might be embarrassed running it in quite a lot of the areas where we tend to find ourselves despite the fantastic way it looks, I’m a fan not a collector. So I thought the next thing to do would be to start trying to chat about it online in a place like this for suggestions as to it’s true value and where I might be able to sell or trade for something more suitable so I’m open to suggestions as to where to go from here I have added some pics and at this point I have not tried to clean it up at all. This is how I found it. Look forward to any responses thank you so much.