1969 Merc 1250 possible super bp?

[wogi]

While many will disagree with my thoughts on this.....this motor can be a good runner. It may not be a BP motor but it is a L6 99.9......The good thing is that it don't have DC pistons and chamber. Less fussy on the crappy gas we now have. The ignition linkage has a crazy curve that tops out at 37* and then retards at WOT. Because not so gas fussy. Most DC motors have to cut back on TDC because of piston burning. It needs better Reeds, on that motor... held on by screws instead of nuts and bolts.

Agree, have a neat sound to them

[xskid1]

pics from 1969 merc literature, don't have 1968 lit.

[largecar91]

the 1250 super bp are not repeat not the same as 135 covers!!!

But they look similar. Totally different than a 125 port cover

[LakeRacer99]

nice score. got that from Bill?

[1954bmw]

Ok, please educate an old goat, what does the BP stand for, is it like the later Bridge Port??? Thank you

[wogi]

This is a super bp

[wogi]

few more the las two mom took just to aggravate the old man the pic's are getting old and it hard to see details but that is a louvered cowl

[wogi]

Attachment 405264Attachment 405265 These are 125 bp powerheads on 15" mids with counter rotating super speedmasters and open stacks

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[wogi]

I ask my father back in the day of the BP meaning, He said BIG PEACE OF SH_T.....

i always thought it stood for BLUE PRINTED but what do i know?

[GENE LANHAM]

I ask my father back in the day of the BP meaning, He said BIG PEACE OF SH_T.....

The first time I asked: BLACK POWER (late 1967)

What is the racing number on the WING?

[wogi]

It was Boots Spellman's boat before my father got it. When my father pick it up it had T-111 on it. My dad said it was the sister ship to the wet and wild and that Jim Mertin my have raced it after the crash of the wet and wild. I have not been able to confirm or debunk that statement. I do see Boots every once and a while, but seem to bullsh-t about other stuff and forget to ask him the true history of that boat. these pic's are how it was when dad bought it.

[Raceman]

Here are two pictures of my unrestored Super BP. Note the difference in the intake covers on the right side, the stripe on the top cowl and the different mid section and lower.

[willabee]

The first time I asked: BLACK POWER (late 1967)

What is the racing number on the WING?

Offshore racers generally said "Black Power", the engineering guys said "Blue Print" .....

I'm pretty sure the T-111 was originally raced by Earl Welch (no relation). Gene, you should remember seeing it at Parker in 67/68 running six pipe Merc 1000's. I think Earl was from Missouri or Illinois. He and his friend, I think the name was Ray Bloch ,both ran the six pipe 1000's. They generally pitted together and seemed to help one another. They never ran very fast, but they seemed to always be having one hell of a good time.

That was around the time that Mercury was trying to control all of the 18' Switzer Wings and I think they ended up buying this boat and put it in storage. A few years later, Boots Spellman bought it and his friend Fred Hugg bought one of Kenny Kitson's retired El Diablo's. They put 1250 stackers on them and used them to go bar hopping in the Oshkosh area waterways! Boots was an OMC dealer and I seem to recall that he painted his engine cowling white and put Johnson stickers on them?

There were never any sister ships, an 18' Wing is an 18' Wing. Someone might think that there was some connection with this boat to Merten's Wet and Wild, but that would only be because Spellman and Mert co-drove at Parker in 1969. To my knowledge, Mert never raced the T-111. In fact I don't believe he ever ran another Wing after the accident in Galveston. However, Boots raced the T-111 once in Merrill, Wisconsin.


Boots in the T-111 at Merrill .....

The other six pipe Wing .....