Re: Evinrude Zephyr?
They made the Zephyr from 1940 to 1949, it was a 5.4 horse power 4 cylinder, from what I understand, it's one of the smoothest running motors ever built, they are pretty common, and from what I've read on them, collectors either love them or hate them, I think it boils down to personal preference, I have one, I tore it down, was pretty easy to get apart, I ordered all the books I could find on it, Mag rebuilding book, carb rebuilding book, owners manual, maintenance manual, parts book, I've been thinking of starting a thread on it when I come to the point of rebuilding it, I'm excited to have mine but it is missing a few parts, there’s not a lot in the way of new old stock parts for it, but there's so many of them out there that finding used parts for it isn't all that difficult, at least from the looking I've been doing that's what I'm finding.
From what I can tell, the later model ones had a recoil starter, the early ones didn't. Or maybe the recoil was an option?
The one in your picture looks like it's an earlier one, 40 to 45 or so, it looks like it has the thinner aluminum tank on it, they came out with a heavy gauge darn near bullet proof tank for it in about 46, it looks like the one in the picture is earlier then that.
Just my opinion, Stuart
