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Chrysler engineering and their proposed Space Shuttle

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Chrysler's outboards always look like a big shoe box. Mercury & Evinrude were always the way to go back then.

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I've never had a problem with original Chrysler fuel senders; it's the repro ones that are garbuso.
 
biomedtechguy said:
Circa 1970
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Chrysler certainly had a lot of irons in the fire. I never knew they were involved with NASA, but we shouldn't be surprised to hear that any big engineering department was involved with NASA at that time.
Also interesting to note, at the turn of the decade, meaning when they were making some of our favorite cars, they were seriously low on funds. Maybe too many irons in the fire.
 
I learned to NEVER unmoor a boat until the engine is started because of that Chrysler outboard. My mom, dad, and I were tied up to a gas flare that was part of a rig in Lake Pontchartrain we were fishing. He untied the boat before he started the motor and we were maybe 6 feet away from the flame when the engine finally started.
That could have been the end of my family then and there.
 
My father had a 16 foot fibreglass boat with a 120HP Chrysler on the back in the 80's. It could easily take 4 x divers and gear along at a reasonable pace. And with driver plus one on-board only, it would hit 50mph on flat water.
 
The 1st boat that my family had as a child was equipped with a Chrysler 120. I learned every swear word known to man listening to my dad work on it
 
If memory serves me the biggest problem was the reed valves on the intake
if they did not have enough oil on them they did not seal and no run
I have not touched one for 40 years
we had a 50hp on a 12ft plywood bellcraft
 
kiwigtx said:
Still got my ticket, but time has prevented me in recent years....that and no boat. :)
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Getting older seems to mean less time for recreation for some strange reason. You have some beautiful waters down there as well. I did get to dive with 68gtxman in Nassau 2 years ago. Going to Grand Turk in November. I wonder what a plane ticket to NZ goes for?
 
Was down at Kennedy Space Center, and found this picture on the wall.Look at the bottom of the picture. That jacket logo looks familiar.
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Ya mean the McDonnell Douglas logos.....?
Chrysler outboard were actually West Bend outboard after Chrysler bought WB.
 
I never heard anything bad about Chrysler outboards. I did like their hull designs though back then. Ironically, back around 1975, several of my friends and I went down to the Keys to do a little scuba diving. My friend and landlord was along and his family owned a sport shop and he was a big boat and Johnson outboard enthusiast. Well, we rented a boat with a Johnson on it and it had outdrive problems so we tried another. That one was a Merc which was running really bad. The next was a Chrysler and it performed flawlessly. I took a picture of it to needle my landlord friend for years to come. Hey Bob, remember when "Chrysler saved the day!" LOL
 
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