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With an old F4 or OE boat you wouldn't need a special short tower

I speculate it may be the one that turned up in Belgium

Probably 1959, maybe 1960

According to Kevin Desmond's Century of Outboard Racing ... Kiekhaefer offered exclusive sales of Mercs for the UK to the first racer who would run one of these motors in the UK. Len Melly took the dare. This is the only picture I have ever seen of Len running the Mark75H. http://i256.photobucket.co...

I have a Sears (McCulloch with different cowls) that has the same "special" maintenance port

There was a special class for it, although it was relatively short lived. The motor was unpopular due to the heavy gyroscopic flywheel and limited potential of the 2 cylinder powerhead. The hp is no different from the 35/40 hp fishing motor. Outside of safety features, nothing was done to it to make...

I have never heard of Chrysler considering McCulloch, but they did attempt to buy Mercury in 1960. The sale did not go thru and Mercury was sold to Brunswick instead.

Exactly what are you looking for? Scrutineer's sheets?


Performance and speed depend on the boat, not the motor.

I am sorry I do not have any information on your boat. On completely different boats the motor is capable of approximately 80 mph, but not on a boat such as yours.

The first year of the official 1500XS was 1976. There were unofficial stealth 155hp motors without the low water pick up but with the fancy louvered cowl at least in 1975 and possibly 1974.