Along this line, and I hope I have all the info correct. Sometime in the 1970's Billy Seebold and Mercury wanted to set the OE record with a Mercury Mod 50 motor on a hydro. Billy and Andy Lowrey built a 14' Hydro in Billy's shop. It was a nice looking boat with a tunnel boat type cowling and painted Mercury Black.
At that time Konig held the OE record somewhere around 117 mph with an alcohol buring 40c.i.+ opposed 4 ( a genuine racing engine). The fastest speed they could get out of the 3-cylinder Mercury was 109. They gave up.
Billy gave the boat to Paul Bogosian and since Pauly only drove runabouts he put his D Konig on it and I raced it one time at a race in Springfield, Illinois. I finished second to Jerry Kirts. The boat was a handful. We were going to change it somewhat so it would corner better before we ran it again. We had it at the Home of Kenny O**. Some time went by and Pauly asked Kenny about the boat. Kenny answered something like "I didn't think anybody wanted it so I took it to a landfill".
Needless to say Kenny was and still is an idiot.
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