You can't even give away a OMC stringer drive on the great lakes.The only advantage to a boat with an old stringer drive is that it makes the boat in most cases chep to buy.Nobody wants them.
Parts now are hard to get and the drive system will keep you pouring money into it to fix the frequent problems that will rear their ugly head.
Im pretty sure that sometime around 1985 or 1986 OMC replaced the stringer drive with their new "Cobra" drive system.Even that drive had problems for a couple years, and I think Omc gave owners of the new drive some extra warranty time until they got the problems ironed out.I bought a 23 1987 Trophy with a Cobra drive, and have to say that I never had any significant trouble with it.
I believe the early problems with the Cobra was in the shift cables.After the fix it was a pretty decent drive system...
If it's a project youre looking for, I think you'd be much better off paying a few bucks more for a real SeaCraft Even if you were to get this boat for free and even if the transom was just done and still solid (which is unlikely) you'll still have to replace it to get rid of that junk stringer drive to replace it with another system be it an I/O or outboard on a bracket.Not worth it imo.
Keep looking there are some reasonable seacrafts out there
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All this,just for a boat ride
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