optxx@juno.com wrote:> A fellow wants to sell me a Johnson Seahorse that he believes to be a> 1991. Didn't OMC discontinue the Seahorse line back in the 80s? Anybody> know?>
Seahorse is a mascot. There wasn't really a "Seahorse" line, it just worked its way into the vernacular.
What's the model number? It's about seven letters and numbers long, and the model year is encoded in it.
<optxx@juno.com> wrote in message news:1115733904.387107.179600@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...>A fellow wants to sell me a Johnson Seahorse that he believes to be a> 1991. Didn't OMC discontinue the Seahorse line back in the 80s? Anybody> know?>
"trainfan1" <lmsearing@usdatanet.net> wrote in message news:1oudnWIOmcglrhzfRVn-tQ@usadatanet.net...> optxx@juno.com wrote:>> A fellow wants to sell me a Johnson Seahorse that he believes to be a>> 1991. Didn't OMC discontinue the Seahorse line back in the 80s? Anybody>> know?>>
Seahorse is a mascot. There wasn't really a "Seahorse" line, it just > worked its way into the vernacular.>
I had a 5.5 hp Seahorse....light green and ran like a champ some 50 years after it was first manufactured. My daughter tore up the prop several years back when taking the inflatable through some rocky shallow water. I ended up selling the outboard, broken prop and all, to an antique outboard collector for $100.
It's like the Mercury "Black Max" V6 stuff. Kinda real....... kinda nothing.
-W
"JimH" <me@aol.com> wrote in message news:wpOdnd9A5p76qxzfRVn-vg@comcast.com...>
"trainfan1" <lmsearing@usdatanet.net> wrote in message> news:1oudnWIOmcglrhzfRVn-tQ@usadatanet.net...> > optxx@juno.com wrote:> >> A fellow wants to sell me a Johnson Seahorse that he believes to be a> >> 1991. Didn't OMC discontinue the Seahorse line back in the 80s? Anybody> >> know?> >>
Seahorse is a mascot. There wasn't really a "Seahorse" line, it just> > worked its way into the vernacular.> >
I had a 5.5 hp Seahorse....light green and ran like a champ some 50 years> after it was first manufactured. My daughter tore up the prop several
years> back when taking the inflatable through some rocky shallow water. I ended> up selling the outboard, broken prop and all, to an antique outboard> collector for $100.>
"trainfan1" <lmsearing@usdatanet.net> wrote in message news:1oudnWIOmcglrhzfRVn-tQ@usadatanet.net...> optxx@juno.com wrote:>> A fellow wants to sell me a Johnson Seahorse that he believes to be a>> 1991. Didn't OMC discontinue the Seahorse line back in the 80s? Anybody>> know?>>
Seahorse is a mascot. There wasn't really a "Seahorse" line, it just > worked its way into the vernacular.>
Rob
The seahorse has been Johnson's logo since the late 40's or early 50's. They used it up thru 2001 when OMC went out of business.
It's like the Mercury "Black Max" V6 stuff. Kinda real....... kinda> nothing.>
More like "Kiekhaefer Mercury". There then came a time that gradually everyone just called them Mercurys or Johnsons.
Our 1972 & 1975 Johnsons have seahorse emblems / caricatures on them, but nobody ever referred to them as "Seahorses" around here. In fact, I just pulled out the ownwer's manuals, the 1972 6hp says "Johnson(large letters) SEA-HORSE(tiny letters)" and the 1975 50hp just says "Johnson(large letters) Outboards(tiny letters)" I had a 1972 100hp too, that manual was identical to the 6hp (both the "50th Anniversary Series") cover except for the model designation.
Evinrude around the same time was phasing out names for the outboards (Angler, Fisherman, YachTwin, LighTwin, FasTwin, SporTwin, SpeediTwin, FleeTwin, Lark, Triumph, SpeediFour, StarFlight, and some others I have forgotten...) in favor of the HP designations.
I can't even recall if new production still has the "SeaHorse" logo... it was around a long time.
