video Champion hot rod

[wiscoboater]

quote outbdnut2:

Yeah – I want a Champion Class B Hot Rod too, but the couple I’ve seen come up for sale have been over-priced junk. I’d settle for a Sweet 16 too, or the rare Tandem 33 pair! Biggest Champion I’ve been able to get is the 8.4 HP 4LHD Hydro-Drive. I remember drooling over them when I’d go to Swanson Outboard (only 15 miles from me) to get Champion parts around 1980 when Lyle Swanson was still building them up new from the factory parts stock he had. When he sold off the parts and rights to them, he told me he “got tired of arguing with Mercury’s lawyers every time one of his Hotrods won a race”!
Dave

I have only come across 2 nice ones for sale in my life. I could not get enough money selling my Kidney to close the deal. 😯

[PM T2]

quote wannabe outboard guy:

The Champion hot rod is the motor on top of my “must own one before I die” list.

I had one. To be truthful, it wasn’t my kind of motor, I’m just not into the racing stuff. It was a 6MMHR with (what I’m told) is the less-seen double anti-cavitation plate style lower unit. Not perfect, but a nice surviving example. Mine came with the steering bar, deadman throttle, correct pressure tank with regulator, original booklet, and receipts for parts bought from Swanson.

Previous owner had bought it in 1957 and kept it until I got it in 2005. I took it all apart and made sure everything in the powerhead was OK to run, but never ran it except to fire it on a stand in the garage. Took it to Constantine to take part in the Champion Hot Hod Round-up that Roger Dykehouse organized in 2006. This motor is now in the Suter collection, as is the Elto Midget Racer that I also once owned.

PM T2

He's livin' in his own private Idaho..... I hope to go out quietly in my sleep, like my grand-dad did..... and not screaming, like the passengers in his car...

[Tubs]

I don’t bend like I use to so mine is pretty much
a conversation piece but as someone who collects
old outboards and knows people that collect old
outboards it still has some value to me for now.

A "Boat House Repair" is one that done without having tools or the skills to do it properly.

[wiscoboater]

Man.. You have all the cool stuff Tubs. I want to come play at your house.

[Tubs]

quote wannabe outboard guy:

Man.. You have all the cool stuff.

Not as much as you might think.
I like stuff but I’m not a hoarder.
If I find something new and there
isn’t a place for it, something has to
go. Just cant stand things piled up
to where I cant get at them. Only
one thing that I really regret letting
go over the years.

A "Boat House Repair" is one that done without having tools or the skills to do it properly.

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