Our second meet of 2012, hosted by Dennis Trevathan and featuring an outboard motor auction right at Newaygo City Hall!
In addition to the 20 motors donated by Scott Quoss of Van's Sports Center, a couple of people from the Newaygo community donated two old outboard motors for the auction making a total of 22 outboards.
Bob Rottier, professional auctioneer from Auction Connection, Inc. of Fremont, Michigan, volunteered his time, waived his charges and buyer's premium to help enhance the proceeds from the auction going to the Newaygo County Museum.
The auction raised a tidy sum for the Newaygo Museum and many happy purchasers went home with new project outboards!
On a dare from a potential buyer, our members worked to get his newly purchased Johnson running right after the auction, and he donated an additional $100 directly to the museum!
There were fine motors on display (but not as many as we'd like to see!) but we didn't have a large participation of display motors by club members primarily due to the inclement weather.
Club President Eric Helder ran the meeting and conducted the awards.
Club Vice President Dennis Trevathan announced two other special motor auction events that will take place this year - details will appear as a special link on the home page! Each of these auctions will feature 40 outboard motors!
We didn't host the "How slow can it go" contest because we did not have our tachometer at the meet, however we did run some motors in our test tank!
Here is contact information about the gentleman who donated the 20 outboard motors that were auctioned off for the direct benefit of the Newaygo County Museum on this day.
Scott Quoss, Owner / President
Van's Sport Center
1855 Alpine Ave. N.W.
Grand Rapids MI 49504
Bus. Phone: 616.364.0666 Van’s Sport Center Website
