Vintage Gold: 75-Year-Old Outboard Motor Never Used ! 

Pete normally has a great poker face,but the boat motor has given him the fizz!!any outdoorsman, fisherman would react the same way. What a great piece of history

That motor is beautiful

On that salesman boat motor sample, there are 4 big holes, two on left and two on right. Those are for rope so the salesman could carry it like a backpack. So if they walked around a lot in a neighbourhood carrying it by hand would get tideous really quick 😅

The 1961 Neptune Mighty Mite WC-1 Outboard trolling motor was manufactured by the Muncie Gear Works in Muncie, Indiana founded in 1910. They started building outboard motors in 1930 where they made motors under many brands. The Neptune Mighty Mite was extremely popular. It was a carbon copy of the Evinrude Scout rated at 1.2 horsepower, they were increased to 1.7 after the war. After 1956 all outboard motors were made at Cordele. This example was manufactured in Muncie, which would indicate production prior to 1956. Decal on tank reads "NEPTUNE". Muncie Gear Works was sold in 1969. Mounted by way of C-clamp to a display board that exhibits a propeller, two vintage oil cans and a pull-rope. A near identical display, if not this exact display, is picture in an article on the internet entitled "History of the Muncie Gear Works Corporation Outboard Motors" and comes with the motor. Sold as display only. I copied this from Morphy Auctions, they have an identical one on their website.

You're always turning out some of my favorite videos to watch! The little outboard motor display piece is more like an art piece, great stuff! Some kind of neon lighting on it would be nostalgic! God speed Pete, stay safe 🎉

Watching (and subscribed) for about a month my husband and I love your channel. Ready to Send in postcard! I swear my beautiful long hair Pepper is Honey’s Husband! I love to see her! Anyways, thank you so much for not taking on ANY SPONSORS. You are literally the only channel we have ever met on RU-vid that has zero sponsors and that says so much! Much love from Ohio with our beautiful cat Pepper ( Honeys Hubby) The Speakman’s from Circleville, OH We love ya and Ruby too!

That customer with the Neptune was so rad! Just reminds me of what we all should try to be! So fair and respectful and he always comes back to your for more purchases and great business! Those are the type of relationships that are special with your customers!

I love salesman samples because they're pretty rare

Incredible piece Pete..😍😮 Love this salesman sample boat motor and it's practically in perfect condition for it's age..🎉🤗 Pete this would dispay and look beautiful in your new cabin..😊 Definately a keeper for sure.. Take care guys..👍❤🔥👊

That “piece” on the bottom of the motor is a skeg brother! It’s used to help with steering, stability, etc while under power. That would not be necessary on a salesman model! Tight lines Pete! 💪🎣

Its amazing how well versed Pete and the boys are in so many things and the cool thing about that is, he learns something new every single day. He's probably an encyclopedia of information by now. If i ever open my own shop, im taking his crash course 😂

Love your content bro, reminds me of when I hung out at my friends pawn shop all day. Wholesome vids ❤

Shout out to the pig rescue in Wisconsin, pigs are smart and know what’s happening with them.❤

Always colorful characters in the shop 😂😂😂

I like your taste. I love the old school industrial tools they were made to last! The boat motor is one heck of a find for sure. I bough a 1945 Goodyear Seebee 5hp motor a couple years ago and I have got it back to 90% restored. These things are expensive and hard to find good used parts that aren’t beat up. Definitely buy that furnace unit especially for $250 bucks! Those units have tripled in price over the past couple years! Congrats on the boat motor!

Outboard motor might look good at the cabin.

That boat engine display looks like one of the art pieces you are trying to make. Really cool!

Is that a bird making those beeps, I genuinely went over to check my smoke detector lmao

Going to bed now, watching this tommorow. I definitely do not use Petes videos to fall asleep!! 😂 can't wait

Back in the early 60's I had the same motor attached to a cedar strip canoe. No skeg on the bottom of the motor like yours.

Looks like a countertop display also salesman. Very very cool.

26:14 - Legend has it Pete is still trying to put the sign against the wall behind the cord.

That motor is sweet. That is an ultimate man cave, shop, or cabin display

The person in the red jacket was pleasant and cordial, also a human being who has feelings!

Such a pleasant, informative and entertaining video, as always. ❤😊

I still have my Dad's old 1930's Evinrude outboard boat motor. I would never sell it as I remember the days with him out fishing when I was a kid. I'm 72 now.

Such cool people in these videos. I love Pete.

Beautiful. Watching from Delaware. If im ever in town, im coming by. I love you guys. Huge fan of the show. ❤

Am I the only one who clearly sees its a salesman sample from the get go?!?! WTF, its literally a motor bolted to a piece of wood!

That mitre trimmer is really good quality. Id buy it if I wasn't in Thailand.

Love those old basic skeletal outboards, even better if theyre working.

Love the videos, my friend. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work and the content

Miss Walters was behaving, active and cute, please give gentle pets to Honey for me🥰 I enjoy the videos, Cheers to you!

My buddies and I were playing the drinking game for every time we heard ‘salesman sample’, and now I’m an alcoholic.

Used to work in an old building in downtown Denver on Market St. , it was a designated 'fallout shelter' during the cold war, as it had a huge basement that ran a whole city block long connecting to other building basements along Market Street at one time. Its all been torn down now and i really regret not getting those old 'Fallout Shelter' signs that where at every basement stairway. I sometimes wonder if anyone did get them. I don't know if they would have had any value but I'm thinking they would. That building was fascinating to me with its old freight elevators , basement connections that had been bricked in, the old elevator shaks they where called, that housed the huge electric motors that ran the elevators and 2nd floor walkways that ran across the alley to another building on the next block. Funny how you sparked my memory of this with those Covid 19 Signs.. i think you are right ! We will be long gone but there will be someone like you in search of one of the most surreal periods of our time , as real as it was.

You got a great deal on the outboard, that particular model was designed and produced with no skeg on the bottom. So that salesman model is accurate to the actual production model that was sold back then

My dad has been a tree climber for over 30 years now and he's 50, he can still out climb the new young guys and out work with his knowledge

That's a good trimmer bud!!!! When you want to do custom woodenwork! And it is a guillotine cut. That will make excellent cuts!! I haven't been in there for awhile, I'm quite a distance from you now. Looks like you're doing ok. And that salesmans motor is cool too. I've seen those in the city too. The handle is for lugging it around to different shops.

Hello Pete. I think the outboard display motor would look great in your new cabin .. 😊

Harley Quinn in the Red had quite a bargain!

The plate you refer to is call the skeg. That demo model might not even have been built to actually run.

You can easily check the dial indicators with a set of Guage blocks. I'd think people would bring a set of those in often as well. Indicators are mainly about repeatability. Set the zero and see if the block or known go to the same number. If they don't hang up and a good brand name, you shouldn't have any trouble getting money out of them. Interapid(swiss made) are the best in my opinion. Brownw and Sharpe, Mitiyoyo, Starrett are all decent.

Love your show brother hope you have a good paddys weekend from Ireland

That salesman motor is worth at least $2k!

Is that a hospital arm tag in 3:06 ?

I enjoy your videos they're nice an you give off alot of history

The engine segment was really good , very interesting

25:51 I agree with Pete that COVID 19-related items will gain value.

6.30 "cool, you got a deal MAN" 😂😂😂

That motor would look great in my boat shop!! I’m interested in it!

That salesman sample is awesome 😎

2:39 the nails tell me other wise on this "work truck" nonsense lmao

Oh wow !!! Dee Snyder from Strangeland is in the shop !

That furnace is a good buy Peter . I’m not a big fan of Amana , but a 60,000 for $250.00 is a great buy if it’s only 6 months old. You could put it in your cottage and convert it to propane. Love the salesman sample of the outboard.👍👍🇨🇦

That salesman sample evinrude display is AWESOME.....Pete, you should think about that for your cabin!!!!!!!!!!!!😁

That car salesman gots to be in to gambling 🤣😭

I love that your shop is accepting of all folks (as long as they don't steal guitars!)

GREAT IDEA about the COVID pieces Pete!!!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🤘🍻🐈🦜

I used one of those guillotines at cabinet making school and they're amazing. If I lived close to your shop I'd buy it in an instant...

Come over here, next to My camera~LOL

That motor is a keeper for the Cabin

In 1970, I worked at a Sinclair, later ARCO refinery in East Chicago, IN> Love the Dinosaur in East Chicago, Indiana.

Judge no one.... Your Life your right

You got a bargain Pete . Well done .

There is an antique store in Woodruff WI that has a whole bunch of these Salesman Sample boards! A great piece!

That was so nice of Bruce Jenner to stop by the shop and see you guys.

Pete had Bruce Jenner in there and didn’t even get his autograph 😂

Very nice pick up, I love it!

Great buy Pete on the salesman sample

I heard the parrot say No Underwear lol wtf

No longer works in the machine shop because the nails get chipped or broken off. 😂

Wow nice boat motor!!

This is the land of the free, so don't hate on those you don't understand.

Some people need to judge themselves before they judge others, this is one world we all have to live in it in peace.

Great outboard motor! I'm thinking it's not long enough to attach the transom and reach a depth deep enough to run and push water? It'd prob work on a small dinghy with a low draft. Thx for the entertainment too.

That little motor is awesome. Would look awesome in somones bar or a restaurant

Was that Madonna with the red jacket on?

What the heck was that creature that stopped by?

That’s one crazy looking transformer

Salesman’s sample or store display same same it’s very cool!

I'm sure as shit glad Dylan mulvaney stopped by the shop.hahahah

Dude, if you sell that one of a kind outboard motor, you're crazy as hell

If you listened without looking ,you would say what a respectfull honest pleasant customer and a cat loving beautiful lady together, Then you let looks change your opinion of them.Sad .

Great video as always!! Can we please see more Ms. Walters and Ruby in the next video? Is Ms. Walters dealing with the change to living in the shop well?

Get ur Manuel to dust ur green light shades,😂. U are great, thanks!

I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay, I work all night and I sleep all day, I put on woman’s clothing and… etc 😂

the guy who was selling the motor said his father gave it to him, then later said he bought it for 500 bucks

The Fin is a Skeg if someone else has not already said what it is.The Dino can reminds me of my 1st job when I pumped gas at a local Dino gas station when I was in Jr. High School.👍👏

That is 100 percent a salesman sample. That’s how all my samples look in all my jobs to this day

That poor contractor who got his tools stolen, 🤔🤣

De Calls lol

Old tools are the best. I work outdoors. When I was at agricultural college we had to use hand tools from the 40's and their equivalents of today. The old tools ( billhooks, scythes and sickles) went most of the day without sharpening, the modern stuff hourly at best......... I have a spade dated 1942 ( with crows foot) and I'm still using it today. I run a file over its edge and you could shave with it. It's used nearly everyday too. And because of the crows foot, has a lifetime guarantee........ although, after 82 years I think it may be void 🤣🤣

that motor is right at the start of that sort of thing i bet it didn't have a guard, it was probably replacing whole hit miss engines in a boat! pull the spark plug out and see if its clean if it is it wasnt used! also that would have been stored in a shed away from the boat so it would need carrying handle for that as well

Nice ponytails. He could dye his hair red and be the Wendy's mascot.

I doubt if the guy in red ever climbed trees🌳 for a living.he might mess up his nails.

That piece you described as a fin in front of the propeller is actually called a “Skeg”.

That outboard is such a great piece for the mancave! His dad gave it to him, why would he want to get rid of it.

Nobody's business but his/her own. Pete was kind and respectful, learn from Pete. To the person in the red coat, keep on shining.

The tools got stolen out of the work truck hahaha! Imagine you hire a contractor and that shows up 😂

Peter this is a Goof or Best Sit Com ever!