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My dad had one of those in the fifties. Motors were normally mounted on a tube (pipe), which attached to the gunnels of a kajak (Paddelboot) with cast aluminium hook-like clamps. Tube protruded right...

Wayne, can you please let us have full title, ISBN #, publisher and sellers (e.g. Amazon) of the book? I think this will be of interest for the potential overseas buyers. best regards, Wolfgang

The 65hp 3-cyl Koenig (available in 850 and 900cc versions) was a very strong contender in UIM Class SE (850cc), at the end of the `60s. It was sold as a "stock" motor and had a slightly higher...

The price for the Konig/Ford V-6 must be seen in the context that the Ford Capri RS2600 hit the roads in that selfsame year at DM 10000 flat. Dieter exhibited his 2-stroke
6-cylinder on his unusual...

Many thanks Per. Highly interesting for us motorheads. Are you going to dyno the motor after completion/running in? Or alternatively will you be able to give us some on-boat performance numbers? What...

Thanks for the reminder, Sam. The 2 motors are really like chalk and cheese.
The 65hp Konig cowling was roundish and looked a bit like a heightened and blown-up 40hp Konig cowling. Somewhere in BRF...

Using a 15.5ft Grupstra (27degr.Vee) I came second at Karlshafen April `69, with hot 65hp OMC with racing lower unit from 115GT. That engine came directly from Bruges (thanks to Dr Hesse, Johnson...

Despite having raced against the 3-cyl 65hp SE Konig (mainly in the form of the Hartmann/Tomczyk team), I have never seen their engine without the cowling. Does any of you Konig boffins out there...

that is the same engine block which Mercruiser at the time marketed as its smallest drive unit with 80hp.
rgds, Wolfgang

Dumperjack - during Saturday practice of the `69 Berlin 6-hour race the wing boat with its engine was parked about15 meters away from our Dalla Pieta/Johnson parking spot. Always curious, Dieter came...

interesting - that might be the same Mr Müller (from Andernach, some 60km South of Cologne) who designed the DKW 2 and 3 cylinder engines, and later that DKW V6 which was in development at Heinkel in...