11/3/2001 WELCOME to the unofficial Northwest Antique Outboard Motor Club website! I have set out to completely revise and update this section of MASTERTECH, hope you enjoy the fun.

Herein are some of the folks and the motors collected up in the great Northwestern US. Even tho I am away out in Hawaii, I still profess allegiance to this great group and the fun had by all collecting, restoring and running all those great outboards of yesteryear.

Howard Van Leuven has this nice pair of original shiny green Mark 50 Mercs. In the background you can see a nice MK55. Out of the photo is a 63 Merc 500 that is original/mint. Howard also has an impeccably restored yellow Jacket 14' runabout that he powers with these. C'mon Howard, get that rig out of your garage and RUN it!!

You just have to see this to believe it. The Williams family have been around all this since way back - - even as long as your striving webmaster! Dey got ALL da Mercs! This is only part of the show. Hurricane motor in the foreground was used to annihilate the B class record by Jack Leek when he was a Merc fan. He went on to head OMC's racing division in the heyday.

Here is my Evinrude " Lark " 40 right on the pile where I found it. This is the model with the full Monty - - DC generator, electric shift, hot water automatic choke! And, it's as new. Tossed away, how sad - -

This immaculate Mark 30 Mercury was sold on an outfit, found to be too small for a good ski motor. And when the owner went back to his local dealer (the first megadealer in the entire universe) they informed him that it was practically worthless, now that it was a " used" motor. He went ahead & bought a Mark 55, just never got around to selling this old girl - -

These four 4's are lurking in Dennis Johnson's collection. I call 'em the OMC hall of shame. The big motors being sold as government largess, the Zeyphr 5HP is the most complex and silliest 5HP ever built. Real waste and an example of engineers running wild. The light4 was a good motor tho. And Dennis's restorations are impeccable!

The Northwest guys are still into racing these old critters. Here's a modified P50 Johnson for " classic C " This stuff is really fun to run, cheap & cheerful. As a retired OPC racer I can identify with that! It takes a big budget to go racing with new stuff today, and no appropriate monetary rewards.

Here is my 1958 Oasiscrafts " Classic Glass " project. You see it just as I hauled it in, leaves and all. I already removed the replacement seats. Probably 400+ holes drilled in the boat to fill, new double bottom to install, etc and that Imron finish (:>)!. But, she's got the lines! And I intend to power it with TWIN Merc sandcast Mark 55's. It'll be fast. Perhaps I will have it ready in the next millennium!