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There is one motor I let
slip away that I would gladly pay three times what
they were asking if I had the chance to buy it again.
I don’t spend much time thinking about the motors I may
have paid too much for. Its the ones I let slip away that
keep bugging me.If it is worth it to you, within reason, grab it and don’t look back. Don’t worry about what somebody bought one just like it for, 5 years ago at a flea market………..Buy it and have fun. I’d give 400 for a nice one like that, that doesn’t need a total re-paint, or even a bit more if it truly only has 10 hours on it. If you are like me, you aren’t buying these things to re-sell and make a bunch of money, you are buying them for the fun of running them and getting an old motor back on the water after sitting in a garage for 50 years. It doesn’t hurt if they are pretty to look at also. If you pay a little too much, it will be forgotten in a few years .
Motors in that kind of condition don’t come along every day. Sometimes you have to “pay up” a little more than you would like in order to secure the deal. Like Tubs, I have stubbornly stuck on a price, say $50.00 less than the seller wants, only to lose out on the deal. Once it’s gone, it’s gone, and yes, there may be regrets.
I would still let him know that you
wish him the best of luck but your
offer is still good in the event he
doesn’t fine anyone interested in
it. Then if he should come back to
you and your no longer interested
just tell him that. I don’t think he
is going to have much success
at what he is asking so if he really
does want to sell it you could here
from him again.For what it’s worth, that was a beautiful motor, for sure. If you really like that kind of thing, it would be worth it. Personally, while the 5.5s are nice, smooth runners, I think they are kind of boring to actually run on a boat. They can barely plane a very light boat; yet they are a little too heavy to be good for a tender motor. I never did understand how they sold so darn many of them. (And that’s another thing…….they are common, common, common, albeit nice.) To me, if it had been a 10 or 18, now that would be a different story. If I bought a 5.5 for that much money, it would be going to the grave with me; because I could never sell it again, without taking a catastrophic loss.
Long live American manufacturing!
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