Mercury Through The Years...

[FUJIMO]

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[FMP]

What the..

[2us70]

Do you guys ever wonder why there are no pictures of this boat in motion? Do you also wonder who they got to test it?

[lilabner]

Do you guys ever wonder why there are no pictures of this boat in motion? Do you also wonder who they got to test it?

Yeah I do. But there were plenty of great drivers there that would drive anything.

[mbd29]

As far as I know this was not a Mercury boat. I posted this picture years ago. It was from Mercury’s photo lab. A staff photographer took it.

[mbd29]

Jim Welton and the Duke “Tom Percival”.

[mbd29]

I remember the test on Lake Michigan. I rented a plane and took pictures of this. Marty is the person to talk to. He has all the secrets.😳😳😳

[2us70]

The question remains. How did this boat run? I see a state registration number on the "tail boom" so it must have seen some use. That cockpit looks scary to me. I got talked into testing a couple of builders ideas of the next big leap forward back in the day. Both of those boats were much less radical than this one. Both were failures and one of them was truly dangerous.

[mbd29]

As far as I know it ran fine but I was never in it at speed. As I stated earlier Marty would be the one to answer that.

[GENE LANHAM]

As far as I know it ran fine but I was never in it at speed. As I stated earlier Marty would be the one to answer that.

I did get these pics from Marty--do any of the pics you took on Lake Michigan exist?

I think the project ($$$) was abandoned because of the limited range

[mbd29]

Gene: I’m sure they exist. But where is the question. They went into the “archives” which has now been condensed.
The main reason, I remember, was money but performance could have played a role too.��

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