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Old Time World includes three workshops. This 25’x 80’ building is temperature controlled and includes 3 of almost every tool made. A large selection of hardware of all kinds is available so any job can […]
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Library & Outboards
Old time World sells and repairs outboard motors from the fifties, primarily Johnson and Evinrude, OMC products because these offer reliability and ease of repair. We have 2 5hp, 2 71/2 hp, one 10, and […]
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Howard Percival Johnson and His Old Time World
PDF version, click here: Prop Talk Article 2007 Howard Percival Johnson Jr. stood at the end of his stunningly well-organized workbench holding a Chock Full of Nuts coffee can labeled “knobs.” Knobs of every description […]
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1956 Whirlwind Sea King 14′
Here is Howard and Cheryl zooming along in their `56 Whirlwind Sea King 14′, at the Reedville Fisherman’s Museum Show, just after the boat parade, September 12, 2010. […]
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Harvey Testimonial
In the summer of 2014, we bought a 1959 Whirlwind from its original owner, here in North Carolina. We had an interest in boats but no experience in wooden boat restoration. We had no awareness […]
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Harvey Whirlwind Restoration
About two years ago, Tammy and I rescued a dusty, beat-up, motor-less, nearly 60-year old mahogany motorboat from an old farmer’s tobacco barn here in North Carolina. We set out to restore it to as […]
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Wild About Whirlwinds
It is November of 1945 and the war is over. The United States Navy decides it no longer wants the molded plywood glider airplanes, being made on the assembly line at Allied Aviation, in Dundalk, […]
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Restoring the Beauty
I read once about house painters who graduly were dying in a Massachussetts town from lead and solvent poisoning, just painting and keeping painted, all the peeling buildings in town, – all the buildings in […]
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Buddy-L Bus Restoration
The Buddy-L Bus came to us with a thick layer ugly yellow paint. We submerged it under Soy Strip paint remover, – overnight. Additional applications made, until all paint is falling off. Once soft everywhere, […]