Quote Originally Posted by jackiewilson View Post
If you ever do find out-----who and why? I will gladly put it in with the rest of the history. My son Mark is putting together OLD BLUE. He's a stickler for authenticity and detail so there will be no bastardisation I can promise you that. We are open to advice, help and parts from anyone, anywhere, and pretty soon he will show you piccies as he progresses and builds----. I had heard it sported a cooked piston, but that's not so, he tells me they look to be in pretty good shape.

Mark and me spent an hour on FaceTime looking through the " circuit racing section of THE X FILES"-------lots of myths laid to rest-----including the MAGNUM MISSILE------inseption, designer, constructor, objective, performance, and disasters,------will get Mark to send me stuff a smidgin at a time-----probably more interesting than I could conjure up, though I do have a great funny to tickle your taste buds.
Thats the beauty of "TRICKS" ------it's just like a box of chocolates -------you never know what your gonna get " till you look in there as forest used to say-------oh yes-----we have a Forest working on
"old blue"-----------HONEST TO MURGATROYD .
Have you read my input to the "Merc V6 History" thread on this web site? I go into quite a bit of info on "Old Blues" history. I should be able to answer most of your questions about her. Replacing the diecast heads and covers with sandcast will be next to impossible. They were originally made at Eck foundry in Manitowoc, WI. There's a chance they might still have the patterns and could cast new ones but I doubt it. They had a big fire there a number of years ago and they may have gone up in smoke.