"Name That Outboard"

[Rotary John]

Perhaps there is one here that you don't have in your collection. I saw this for sale on Kijiji . Joe @905-964-6002. $40 each

Glenn

The blue & white motor in the front with "MAC" on it appears to be the MAC 10 Wankel outboard. It used a Ficthel and Sachs rotary and was made by an Italian firm. Its quite a collectors piece.

[TBuck2003]

Roger cool project for sure. That is for sure not built in 1970, for a lot of reasons. I would say that is somewhere between 1974 -1976 leaning towards 75 or 76. Nothing power wise in 1970 was even close to that power,and the boats were built with a lot of lift in them primarily for V-4s 99ci and inlines good to about the 100mph range with that power. A boat from that era with V-6 CCC would of been a deathtrap immediately. The pickleforks and rear cowl also scream out mid seventies. Awesome Find !!!!!

[Mark75H]

I agree with you and Gary Pugh, the boat is much newer than 1970.

[Lars Strom]

R. Molinari switched from Mercury to Evinrude 1977..and changed the design
of the boats at the same time..

I am pretty sure the boat is from 1977 or newer..

[Mini Max]

One of Two

[Mark75H]

If you can name the owners and locations, I'll go with 2.

[Mini Max]

I have confirmation on one, and was also told by Ronald Lietha that he was offered one to buy, but had not the interest at that time. Just don't know if it was the same one or different.

A note from Bernie Bergen suggests its reasonable that there may be another. In response to my asking.......


Not a clue - I didn't get there until 1965 - we did have a locked "vault" up in the barn but the few times I was in there I don't remember seeing anything like this.
This probably would have come out of Oshkosh Plant 6, which was torn down about 10 years ago.
I would believe that there would have been this welded proto, then something cast to prove out the sand molding for fill, porosity, etc. and then used for dyno work and finally boat test. Interesting though -

[Mark75H]

Pretty sure you will find that there is one

[Mini Max]

Not many of these around either.

[BILL HOCTOR]

SAAB>>>>>CRESCENT???????????