🚀 go-pugleaf

I have just become the owner of record of a very strange outboard
motor.  Perhaps someone out there can tell me something about it.

This motor is a Techumsa(sp) lawn mower engine mounted on a lower
drive unit.  The whole thing looks as if it was intended to work
this way.  The motor looks as if it can be unbolted from the lower
unit and used on other devices.  Of course there is no reverse,
no neutral, no speed regulation except by turning the regular
lawn mower dial on the side.  Steering is accomplished with a handle
which is bolted to a wooden platform which goes between the
motor and lower unit.  Does anyone have any idea how old such
a unit might be?  What horsepower it might be?  The ratings
plate has been painted over so I can't find much information
or the serial number.  Replies and jokes will be appreciated.
T. C. Wheeler