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Outboard Model Boat Motors

Toy Outboard Motors - Airplanes and Rockets

Outboard motors for model boats have been available for a long time. Advertisements in modeling magazines from the 1950s (as far back as my collection goes) has plenty of them. Ailyn's Sea Fury outboard motor and the Fuji outboard motors are just a couple examples for which I have copies of the ads. I don't know if any are still manufactured today, but if you hang around eBay long enough, you will find them up for auction. As of this writing, there is a Fuji .15 outboard motor up for bid. It appears to me in remarkably good condition.

These two advertisements were scanned from 1950s vintage American Modeler magazines, offered by America's Hobby Center (no longer in business).

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator the $29.95 price in 1957 would be $239.71 in 2011 money. These vintage motors usually sell at about the inflation-adjusted price, so when you see them go for a couple hundred dollars, it really is not so much in today's money.

Sea Fury Outboard Motor Ad - Airplanes and Rockets Fuji Outboard Motor Ad

To the right is a website I found K&O Toy Outboards. The owner appears to have quite an impressive collection of the motors.

Below is the e-Bay auction mentioned.

eBay Auction for Fuji Outboard Motor (June 2011)

Electric Outboard Model Boat Motors - Airplanes and Rockets

Here is part of a Polks Hobbies ad from the April 1957 edition of American Modeler

showing a selection of electric outboard model boat motors

Articles About Engines and Motors for Model Airplanes, Boats, and Cars:

AT's Post-War Motor Roundup - September 1949 Air Trails
Motor of the Month: K&B Torpedo .049 Engine - November 1952 Air Trails
Mills "Brothers" - ½ Diesel Engines from England - January 1952 Air Trails
World's Smallest Mass-Produced Glow Plug Engine Unveiled by Cox - May 1961 American Modeler
Cameron .09 Marine Engine - July 1954 Air Trails
Electromotive Power Plants - March 1974 American Aircraft Modeler
Netzeband Reports on the Aero 35 Horizontal Piston Engine - October 1963 American Modeler
Wankel Engine Models - July-August 1963 American Modeler
Multi-Cylinder Engines - March 1967 American Modeler
Air Progress: The Jet Engine - July 1951 Air Trails
50-HT Hopped-Up Jetex - March-April 1963 American Modeler
Allyn .049 Sky Fury Engine Review - May 1954 Model Airplane News
CO2 Power is Coming Back - April 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
Cordless Electric Flight Motors - July 1973 American Aircraft Modeler
Cox Babe Bee .049 Engine - Operation & Troubleshooting Guide
Babe Bee: New Member of the Cox Family - April 1957 American Modeler
Cox Golden Bee .049 Engine - Photo of disassembled engine
Cox Thimble Drone PeeWee .020 Engine - Engine photo & operation sheet
Junior 451 / DP-03 CO2 Model Airplane Motor - Photos, user's guide, and video of it running
Designing a Ducted Fan - February 1971 American Aircraft Modeler
Ducted Fans! -- Scale-Like R/C Planes - March 1962 American Modeler
Dyna-Jet Engine - June 1957 American Modeler
Engine Idling Secrets (Part 1) | (Part 2)
November & December 1962 American Modeler
Engine Roundup - 1955 Air Trails Annual Edition
Eureka Importing Company "Tiger Jet" Ad - July 1957 American Modeler
Fox 15 C/L Engine - Photo of my 1st engine bigger than a Cox .049
Fox 35 C/L Stunt Engine - Photo of my next C/L engine,
Fox 40 R/C Advertisement - April 1962 American Modeler
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! - August 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
Global Engine Review - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
Hot Engines! - January/February 1963 American Modeler Article
How Bill Wisniewski Reworks His Engines - June 1957 American Modeler
How to Select the Proper Glow Plug ... and Why - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
Inside the Two-Cycle Engine - February 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
Iron Curtain Engines - Da? Nyet? - August 1962 American Modeler
Jetex Jet Engine Ad - May 1954 Model Airplane News
Jetex Motors & Fuel Pellets - Photos of my collection of motors
Johnson Engines Continue on Improvement Program - February 1957 American Modeler
Powerplant Revue: Hi's Radio Mill Proves Potent Yet Docile .35 - February 1962 American Modeler
McCoy .35 Red Head C/L Engine - Photos of my engine and the user's sheet
Model Motor Museums (Part 1) | (Part 2)
November & December 1959 American Modeler
Netzeband Reports on a Horizontal Piston Engine
September/October 1963 American Modeler
Norvell .15BB Revlite C/L Engine - Photos of my engine
O.S. 25 LA Engine - Photos of my engine
Outboard Model Boat Motors - Advertisements of many different outboards
Rubber Motor Testing - August 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
There's a Wankel in Your Future - June 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
Thimble-Drome Piper Super Cub 105 - October 1957 American Modeler
The Visible Wasp Airplane and V-8 Automobile Engines - Advertisements
The Wright Cyclone 9 Radial Aircraft Engine - by Monogram

Posted June 11,2011

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