thanks man, that was a fun you tube.
i especially liked the old man with the tired blood about in the middle of the view. had me roaring...
i can remember going to the mercruiser dealer when i was a kid. getting all the latest mercury brochures i could get. reading up on all them high hp outboards. back when 100 or 115 was a lot of hp... times sure have changed..
I owned three different 60's era Merc outboards .... lets just say, I haven't owned one since .... that said, I really enjoyed the video .... it brought back decades old memories which all of a sudden seemed like yesterday .... thanks for finding and posting it
That's a good one, mad. I look at old vids like this and try to recognize things and actors. Only picked up on two things. The tired blood boat looked like a Starcraft Super Sport and the actor in the final vid looked like Leif Erickson, Big John Cannon in "The High Chaparral" .
That commercial likely was one of the causes for OMC building the first V4 Fat Fifty, in 1958. In 1957, the largest motor OMC had was a 35 or 40HP Big Twin. With Merc announcing the inline six 60HP motor, the race was on....
