Antique Motors - Scott Atwater, Game Fisher and more

[Jill Wilkerson]

What is the best place to showcase these or get their value?

 

[jbcurt00]

AOMCI

 

[dwco5051]

Take a look on Ebay at "Vintage Complete Outboard Motor Engines" See what the asking price is for motors similar to what you have. Then find out what they actually sold for. Maybe it is my age but the prices that they want for some of the motors there is 5 or more times what I think they are worth. I don't see anything in your photos that jump out as being the proverbial 1953 Corvette found under a tarp in a barn. It is not a large market for old unrestored motors. If I could get the price they are asking for some of those on Ebay for the few I have in my garage that I did not have the heart to scrap I would carry them on my back, barefoot on a hot tar road to the buyer.

 

[racerone]

Agreed with above.----Mercury " green top " might have the most value.----Most of these change hands around the $50 or so.

 

[Jill Wilkerson]

Thank you guys. They hold more sentimental value than anything but I truly don’t have the space for them. They were my father’s that has been gone for 7 years. He had all sorts of antiques but these were some of his most favorites as he loved boating.

 

[JimS123]

Agreed with above.----Mercury " green top " might have the most value.----Most of these change hands around the $50 or so.

Yeah, sorry to say the market is soft now. Sure, the Merc s the most sought after of the lot, but it (and others) are missing the bottom cowls, so a full restoration is not possible.

IMHO, offer the lot as parts motors for $200, but take the first $100 offer.

 

[Scott Danforth]

I had two old merc's that had sentimental value as they were my fathers as well, a Mark 7 and a Mark 20 that both were running, but needed help (ignition, carb, water pump, etc.). sold both for $225 to a canadian snowbird that restores them.

look around on AOMCI and see if someone else has sentimental attachment.