Inteeresting Mercury Endurance Video: 1957....50,000 miles by outboard

[SeaKaye12]

http://vimeo.com/5370345

If you haven't already viewed this....check it out. Vimeo has links to other Mercury videos at the end.

In particular...check out how they re-fueled on the fly...even at night!

Chuck

 

[Chinewalker]

Re: Inteeresting Mercury Endurance Video: 1957....50,000 miles by outboard

I spoke at length with Charlie Strang about the Mercury endurance runs - lot of behind the scenes stuff went on at the time. Lots of good info about it in "Iron Fist", too...