Originally Posted by
RonHill
Back in the days we were racing alkies hard...Johnny Carnakis got a Grant built Quincy. Not sure why it was a part at my dad's house, but, being about 1964, my dad was in SHOCK to see "PLASTIC" inside this "C" Mercury..My dad was a total bug about case stuffing...and here, Marshall, had stuffed the case with "PLASTIC"..My Old Man punched, and scratched that MARINE TEX....He decide the ALKY hadn't effected it...After that, my dad became a Marine Tex freak...Where salt water about ate part way through the heads on the old Mercuries, my dad would Marine Tex them back and mill them off...If anything was said, he'd just answer, "Well Marshall Grant uses it." He also used Marine Tex to stuff the cases....like behind the port covers...top and bottom mains the had holes...
Later, Ted Zahorski, made long ways reed Yamaha V-6 motors into cross ways reed motors, with white Marine Tex...These was a gas motors...but he used white Marine Tex to stuff the case...Ted's engines managed to win Parker and Havasu...
We put our nose cones on withe "GLURP", a private label by Hill Marine..."GLURP" was white Marine Tex...
I'd agree with JB weld working too...Plastic is what the word was in the Graduate wasn't it???
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