A few motors of the weird...
I am a volunteer at Lake Tahoe Maritime Museum. Aside from moving displays I help with resotorations of motors and boats of a different era. With the permission of the director, I've got a few never seen shots from the annex in Truckee, which is only open to the public one time a year. I'm hoping to stump Sam, but, I doubt it. Please enjoy these photos, and if anyone visits Lake Tahoe, please see the museum in Homewood, and if you give me enough time, I can probably get you a tour in the annex.
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Packard PT boat motor and transmission
The design is what nearly got JFK a general court marshall. Navy orders were that all boats must remain idling, and in gear. A PT boat did not use a clutch to shift, therefore the motor had to be stopped to engage the transmission
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Most of the boats in the museum annex, Truckee, Ca.
Some pretty amazing histories, including a boat tailed boat which won the ran against a locomotive, 2.25 hours to run 150 miles. The engines, twin Scripps V-12 aircraft motors.
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7 liter Hydro, APBA champ in 1962
This boat uses a Studebaker motor....I am not sure Studebaker ever made a 7 liter motor....Anyone know whose it was?
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Evinrude twin cylinder two stroke inboard motor
I knew the Johnson Brotehrs began it all on the Wabash river with a bronze 2hp inboard, but, anyone ever see one of these? Sam?