Let's Make Noise

[Mark40H]

Was sitting at home last night when there was a knock at the door. When I opened the door, there stood a young man I had not seen for many years. His name is Joe Keith. Joe was a brother-in-law of the late Stan Higgins, who was a local racer here in QUincy back in the 60's and 70's.

Stan raced mostly OPC. He ran Checkmates and Allison Craft boats and loved Mercury motors. Stan always liked to make noise and usually had a set of Quincy pipes on his black Mercurys.

Joe told me this set of pipes had been in a shed at his place down on the river for over thirty years and had been through all the major floods here in Quincy in the last few years. He thought they probably came off one of Stan's old 110 Mercurys and thought I would like to have them.

After looking at them today in the daylight, I am pretty sure they are a very early set of Quincys that were made up for the Mark 75 F Class motor.

Will have to have Gene East verify next week. Anyway, thought some of you might like to see another piece of Quincy history.

I will have to bead blast them and give them a new coat of paint and then find a motor to put them on. Really does make a guy want to make noise, doesn't it?