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  • July 21, 2016 at 5:04 pm #40638
    mini-motors
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      Hilarious! Two of me would leave no weight left over for any motor, except maybe a Cruise-N-Carry. The BIA label on my Elgin is long gone, but I remember the HP rating.

      July 21, 2016 at 6:54 pm #40642
      amuller
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        This is definitely getting very close. The only link to Sears vendor number 581 that I could find was Imarflex and that doesn’t really seem to fit with boatbuilding but I will dig more on that. 60122 seems to correspond with 1973 and 1974.

        The rear quarter plates and the bow plate are slightly different.

        July 22, 2016 at 1:02 am #40674
        mini-motors
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          The seats and the stamping of the transom scream Elgin. Many of those vendor lists for Sears are incomplete. Here is a pic of the 1961 Sears/Elgin catalog. If you look closely at the transom of the one on top of the car, you’ll see the resemblance.

          July 24, 2016 at 5:02 pm #40821
          amuller
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            I was able to find a six-digit number on the port side of the transom (inside). Can also see where a tag like the shown in this thread has fallen off or been removed. Is there any useful way to interpret such a number? I presume it is a "serial number."

            Thanks.

            July 24, 2016 at 5:52 pm #40824
            The Boat House
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