Ray Leger and Bobby Brown in "Miss PowerCat" at Salton Sea, Ca.
Testing for the up coming
Salton Sea 500. This was a wood boat
running 78's, some of the
first 6
cyl Mercurys with " Quicky* "
lower units, run on any
pleasure class boat.
racing lower units as made for the 4 cylinder and smaller racing engines,
and the latter versions designed for the 6 cylinder motors were known as
"Speedmasters". These for the 6 cylinder motors of the late 50's were in
between these others and came on the Mark75H racing motors and
other variants as custom built up by many racers. )
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