Mercury Through The Years...

**AZMIDLYF** · 12-21-2016, 11:17 PM

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**powerabout** · 12-22-2016, 02:06 AM

Deuce High says product of sterndrive 2 speed?
What they talking about willis?

**AZMIDLYF** · 12-22-2016, 09:58 PM

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**Capt.Insane-o** · 12-24-2016, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by powerabout

Deuce High says product of sterndrive 2 speed?
What they talking about willis?

Black Trac transmission basically.

**olboatman** · 12-24-2016, 07:57 PM

Hey Capt. Really like your new signature friend!

SWEET!!!

Merry Christmas

Gary

**BUZZIN' DOZEN** · 12-24-2016, 08:42 PM

R.I.P.

**Robby321** · 12-24-2016, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by olboatman

Hey Capt. Really like your new signature friend!

SWEET!!!

Merry Christmas

Gary

I like the avatar! Its how I grew up..(OK, still working that up part) a
kid with a tiller! DAMN, this is fun, but need more power! And it never stops!

Gary? Keep on NOT growing up, OLD OK! NOT UP!

**olboatman** · 12-25-2016, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Robby321

I like the avatar! Its how I grew up..(OK, still working that up part) a
kid with a tiller! DAMN, this is fun, but need more power! And it never stops!

Gary? Keep on NOT growing up, OLD OK! NOT UP!

Iknow...I know I ment avatar and not signature.

Your right Robby I may be growin older,

BUT not growin up!!!

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gary

**HydroSkreamin** · 12-25-2016, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by AZMIDLYF

Heading out to Lake Winnebago, one bridge away from "The Checkerboard Building" (The beginning of Mercury Hi-Performance) at Mercury Marine Plant 33 in Oshkosh, WI. These two pics must have been taken by someone on the chase boat. Extremely cool!

As a kid my mom would drag me shopping at that Park Plaza mall in the background, and I used to look up river from that bridge and see all of the outboards and sterndrives on dock test screaming away in the middle of the winter, the Fox River only open where the thrust of the engines on test kept it from freezing. Very intriguing as a 9-12 year old kid, and imagine seeing something like this cruising down the river as a kid! Schwing!

**bernie** · 12-26-2016, 01:19 PM

Not a boat - but here is the Fond du Lac facility Plant 4

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on Hickory Street in 1960 - looked the same when I started in 1965. My product engineering drawing board was on the left wall, second floor, above that railroad siding. The wall windows were covered floor to ceiling with curtains with the round KM logo, wish I had a few yards of that stuff today. In the summer it was hot, in the winter when the wind blew, snow would drift in through the cracks in the window frames. We built up to the 35 hp here, the big motors were still in Cedarburg. White two story building in the far left corner is Plant 8, the sand cast foundry. Double click the photo for a big pix.
In the space between the barn and the other square building, an addition was added, I think 1967, same size as the existing square building. The gear and clutch cutting and grinding line was on the East wall, the grinders being right at the wall. When the barn was torn down, I think that was '70, they came in with a wrecking ball to knock it down and then bust up the old concrete. The first time he dropped that ball, the whole existing building "jumped" - every grinder on that wall ran a piece of scrap when that happened. I can still see Joe Michalowski, our Chief Inspector, running out the door yelling for them to stop!