Your first TinBoat. Post you pictures.

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Sadly all the photos I had taken were lost, but here's a link to my first Sears 7.5 HP for $248 and my first tin boat @ 12' and $199. Less than a year later I brought the ever failing 7.5 back to Sears for a full refund and grabbed a lightly used Johnson 15 and never looked back.
Comparing the water cooled 2 cyl Johnson to the air cooled Sears was like night and day!
1976 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 1110 - Catalogs & Wishbooks



1976 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 1113 - Catalogs & Wishbooks

 

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Sadly all the photos I had taken were lost, but here's a link to my first Sears 7.5 HP for $248 and my first tin boat @ 12' and $199. Less than a year later I brought the ever failing 7.5 back to Sears for a full refund and grabbed a lightly used Johnson 15 and never looked back.
Comparing the water cooled 2 cyl Johnson to the air cooled Sears was like night and day!
1976 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 1110 - Catalogs & Wishbooks



1976 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 1113 - Catalogs & Wishbooks

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Funny you mention the Sears outboard...my father purchased a new Sears 7.5 up motor in 1954. Awesome motor, always fired right up, ran it for over 10 years, only issue was a glass bowl under the carb which needed cleaning on occasion and it was slippery due to the oil in the fuel. We kept an extra on hand! Otherwise a great motor, traded it in for a bigger boat and motor.