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Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84907
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I saw this ad on craigslist and i am thinking of taking a look at it, i can't say i have ever seen this model, anybody know anything about the wizard?
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84911
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boston.craigslist.org/sob/boa/4123598436.html
try this link, i screwed up, sorry about that. |
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84912
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just like the ELGIN made bt SCOTT.early 60's
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84923
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Not a Mercury built Wizard, probably A Scott like Dave says. It is an oddball to be sure and if they did build such a thing it would be worth getting for the rarity factor. I have never seen another one before.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84925
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They are not rare. made under the names Scott,. wizard and elgin just to name a few.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84970
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yup its a McCulloch built wizard, Ive got 1 just like it,for 32lbs its a fun lil motor to drive and has decent power, 80$ is a good price too.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84972
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Not rare? When was the last time you saw one? In my 35 years of collecting I have never seen one with the Wizard name on it. Rare enough for me!
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #84978
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thanks for the replies, i sent him my number but haven't got a call yet.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85031
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gfgarland wrote:
Well, I been "wet" since I was 5 years old, now I'm 63. That said, if it was built, I probably saw it, as same and few motors not seen me and worked on too. Now that seems to me like said.."Elgin/..Scott/Attwater, McCullough, Chrysler, heck same copy the Rude ""Fisherman, low profile". There NO way thats some Merc, (I know what a Wizard looks like too, Doc has one) Think what ya got there is a simple reworked over decades, "custom hood". Worked on many..(not Rudes though, bullet proof those motors!), but the copy cats?..scrap metal to me. But be great "shop art", if ya get it for $30/40 tops out the door. But thats not "rare" to me. |
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85044
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Hi propnut,
Check to see the model number and compare it to this link. This may help decipher the code www.elginoutboards.org/elgin1959to63.htm |
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85045
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IT is not reworked it is a wizard . merc was not the only manufacture of wizards. i think they stopped about 58 or so. IT IS DEFINATLY A WIZARD.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85053
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See next post
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85054
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I agree its might be a Wizard, but I REALLY doubt made by Merc as thats my point. Compare that motor to a Merc Wizard.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85056
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Heres a link of Merc Wizard pix. Nothing there that looks like that low profile Fisherman style as stated here.
www.google.com/search?q=Mercury+Wizard+outboard+motor&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=B6hdUqvwBKOLiwKh8oHoCg&ved=0CGwQsAQ&biw=1592&bih=785&dpr=1#imgdii=_ |
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85057
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That was my point it was not made by mercury. mercury stopped about 1958 and this was early 60's.
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85058
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dave bernard wrote:
OK, I misread your post. Sorry! |
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85062
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Same model was offered in 1960/61 - Wizard model no. 2GC-6908, the 7.5 HP motor introduced in 1960 as the Fishing Scott 7.5 HP, made by McCulloch Corp. A later 9.0 HP with electric start was based off this motor. You can find the exact same motor as a Ted Williams, Elgin, Sears, McCulloch, Scott, Fishing Scott, Wizard, Hiawatha, and probably a few more. This one happened to be sold by Western Auto stores, thus the "Wizard" branding. Looks real sharp with the blue paint which was special to the Wizard version (though the Elgin version had chrome too.)
I have a later McCulloch version- haven't gotten it running though. From the Glassic Library: www.fiberglassics.com/library/Wizard_%28Western_Auto%29 
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85082
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rare or not it's totally cool looking. I'd buy it!
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85112
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I agree!!! Buy it to put on display, it is way too cool looking to pass over!!
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85113
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I agree!!! Buy it to put on display, it is way too cool looking to pass over!!
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Re:Wizard 10 years 11 months ago #85150
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I paid 60 for the pair, the scott is a 6hp-witch I never knew they made in 6 hp, the wizard is a 7.5 hp, elgins and the ted williams are common, hiawatha and the wizards are less common.
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