Re: Lightwin 3 Identification Please.
it always makes you feel good when you can score on an old outboard, for me, anything I can tinker with, I consider a good find.
I'm happy witht he ones I have, every one of then, (with the exception of one) are garage sale finds, if it's old, and has compression, and looks to be complete, and the price is cheap, (in my case, anything 50 bucks or less) I'll take it, so far, I've only found one motor that I considered a mistake buying, and only because it was my first garage sale find, I had no idea what I was doing, I paid way to much for it, it was missing parts, had some other problems, and it would have cost me way more to get it running then it was worth to me, so I parted it out, sold all of it through ebay, and still managed to get my money back out of it, so even as a first experence, it wasn't bad.
if your going to go garage sailing for outboards, make sure it's cheap, my rule of thumb is, if it's a Johnson or evenrude, I'll take a second look, if it has compression and looks to have all it's parts, and they will take 50 bucks or less for it, I'll consider buying it.
the only outboards I would be willing to pay more for would be a really nice mid to late 50's evinrude or johnson, 10 horse to 20 horse, or any that are mid 1930's and earlier, (still looking to get my hands on one of those)