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08-10-2018, 12:19 AM #1
235 Mercury. Wait... Wut?
Did a little digging after seeing these on ebay and came across this thread https://www.screamandfly.com/showthr...-HP-OEM-Decals everyone is having a har har over it, including me, but I noticed the faceplate graphic was identical to the 225 decals I had seen. I collect the blue stripe mercs just because they're my favorite graphics (82, YAS!) so I figured WTF and bought them.
Well I got them in, and I'm not sure what's going on, but they are on the OEM style paper, and I can NOT tell the difference between the 235 decals and OEM stuff.
So my question is WTF do I have here? Has everyone ever seen these? Someone being a clown in fon-du-lac? These things are oddballs for sure.
Will attach more pics once they upload... ugh.
> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 12:24 AM #2> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 12:34 AM #3
You can still buy 3M Scotchcal decal film today, of course the graphic on the back has changed over the years. May be "vintage" but not necessarily Merc original?
Josh Peterson
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08-10-2018, 03:10 AM #4
it's definitely vintage of the same era, they have the same feel as my other decals of that age and the striping/lettering is identical in both color and design. If they aren't merc, they're made from the same templates. Measuring a few spots with the caliper comparing these to my merc decals, they are identical.
I think the 235 might be overlaid on top of an original merc base decal, but it's extremely hard to tell. I also don't want to destroy them in case they were some off the wall thing that had been tested back in the day. This isn't the first weird clamshell decal I've seen.> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 05:24 AM #5
Metric
'95 STV "The Blue Goose"
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08-10-2018, 08:40 AM #6> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 08:43 AM #7
> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 08:48 AM #8
You spose that's crankshaft horsepower or propshaft ??
Wriggleys gum makes me think of boating, "Double your engines, Double your fun"
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08-10-2018, 08:35 AM #9
I knew I was going to be greased for this post. Lol. It's just too weird for me to ignore though.
> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 08:46 AM #10
I`ve said it before. Mercury has done some strange stuff over the years. I wouldn`t doubt that your decals came from them and was intended to be on something but never went into production. We`ve all seen or heard of those strange Merc engines. I had one myself.
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08-10-2018, 09:03 AM #11> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 12:57 PM #12
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08-10-2018, 04:56 PM #13
Nope. They're modVP clamshells. The decals that fit a clamshell are much longer and wrap around as shown. The drop on cowl decals are short. The decal itself is also different in that the ModVP is printed right in the decal layout, and it doesn't say "formula" - There are a few others floating around, one pair I believe is at progression boats hanging on the wall and are mint unused.
From what I hear they also had sets of modVP clamshell decals in the blue stripe layout but I've never seen them.
All that said I think these "235s" are likely someone playing cute games with add on numbers over the original decal.> Stainless steel Merc cowling plates - $110 shipped TYD - LINK <
1979 16' Action Marine/2.5L Merc S3000 - Metalflake Maniac
1984 18' Contender Tunnel/2.4 Merc Bridgeport
"Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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08-10-2018, 12:34 PM #14
I think Canadian HP is different
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08-10-2018, 01:03 PM #15Screaming And Flying!
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