Mercury Through The Years...

**FUJIMO** · 11-18-2016, 11:28 AM

...Kiekhaefer Hemi's being prepped for racing...

**lilabner** · 11-21-2016, 10:42 AM

Saw this at Mt Dora around 2008.

**FUJIMO** · 11-21-2016, 04:29 PM

**GENE LANHAM** · 11-21-2016, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

15 quart oil pan for the big block 'gear drive' (accaessories) KAM engine---
'inline' coolers for power steering and engine oil---

**PARKER RABE** · 11-21-2016, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by lilabner

Saw this at Mt Dora around 2008.

that belongs to mike mullins in winterhaven florida

**JFL** · 11-21-2016, 08:03 PM

That would be mine, a few others did the air pump and actuator

**lilabner** · 11-21-2016, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by PARKER RABE

that belongs to mike mullins in winterhaven florida

I sold Mike a 3.4 EFI Offshore about 1989-90..

**mbd29** · 11-22-2016, 01:27 PM

This one is very interesting to me. I was involved in making a lot of the tags and stands for display engines and components that were on display in Racing and Hi-Performance back in the 70's. This being one of them. The twin strut unit is very unique so got a lot of attention. I just wonder how the stand with the tag got out of Plant 6 other than being stolen.

**bernie** · 11-22-2016, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by mbd29

This one is very interesting to me. I was involved in making a lot of the tags and stands for display engines and components that were on display in Racing and Hi-Performance back in the 70's. This being one of them. The twin strut unit is very unique so got a lot of attention. I just wonder how the stand with the tag got out of Plant 6 other than being stolen.

Mike - I don't know who said it - but one year they were going to take physical inventory in the Oshkosh plants - someone pipes up "Whose garage are you going to start in?

**jackiewilson** · 11-22-2016, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by lilabner

Saw this at Mt Dora around 2008.

I would pay a few shillings for that piece of kit i can tell you!

**Robby321** · 11-22-2016, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by bernie

Mike - I don't know who said it - but one year they were going to take physical inventory in the Oshkosh plants - someone pipes up "Whose garage are you going to start in?

Hey Bernie! Sounds like the plant I worked at! Bet way more "stuff" stored "off site" than the plant!

**bernie** · 11-22-2016, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Robby321

Hey Bernie! Sounds like the plant I worked at! Bet way more "stuff" stored "off site" than the plant!

Not so sure "stored" is the right terminology! LOL!

**Robby321** · 11-22-2016, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by bernie

Not so sure "stored" is the right terminology! LOL!

I don't want to hi jack the great thread, but your first comment cracked me up! SO TRUE! Did 21 years at Reynolds Aluminum which was a huge (77 sq acres building alone) took pig to the furnaces, to ingots and then mills to sheet and plate. Made sheet, coils, wingskins for Boeing, made the space shuttle external tank, siding , can stock, etc. First decade Journeyman Machinist, then took over the mechanical (Mach, truck, welders, pipe fitters) shops tool crib. Worked the day shift (24/7 plant) and the stuff "borrowed" overnite (as day) was insane. We did have to go out through the guard shack, but if we were "weighed in and out? ALL would have been fired! But on the big stuff? Damn, half the drag bike I built came outta there!
"Government work" ya know, secret. So ya get a "care package" ready and then give it to the truck shop. Then ya leave and go to your ride and come back and say guards, "I need a jump start ride, dead battery" Call the truck shop and the truck showed up, and "care package" delivered!

And when the shift bosses would come and see me needing me to order something (and I could order anything), Steve came to me one day and said " I need 4 4 foot lengths SS threaded rod, 3/8" Then said "Order 10, as the store room will steal 2, 2 missing here ya not looking and you will take one too" HA! (I did)

But as it was a GREAT job, as GREAT PEOPLE, one big happy family and STILL paying me a pension 23 years later as the plant was going to slim down in 1994, and sell the rest after pensioning out those with time and service. Like me at 44 age. Alcoa bought out Reynolds, or be zero pension me. Plant was leveled few years later and what left sold dime on a dollar.

Now its a new big "office park", with all needed seems the now "society", like fast food joints, R/E and Lawyers office, health clubs, "Aroma therapy" (aint the 2S oil burnt?) all the crap that CREATES NOTHING. But the "smell of a running 2 STROKE OUT BOARD"? " Thats "therapy", and with a THROTTLE!

Bernie like to meet ya some day and BS "the way it was", as its real times, and gone now. But enough goofballs here to pick up the torch and "run with it".

and we will sit back and watch. "Those damn kids are crazy!"..(like we weren't

**Mark75H** · 11-22-2016, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by Robby321

, "Aroma therapy" (aint the 2S oil burnt?) all the crap that CREATES NOTHING. But the "smell of a running 2 STROKE OUT BOARD"? " Thats "therapy", and with a THROTTLE

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