Reply To: KG9 Mercury corrected to KF9.

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Hey Scott

The only red Mercs I’m aware of were four cylinder KF/KG9 models. Peter Hunn mentions them in “The Golden Age Of The Racing Outboard ” and I believe in “The Old Outboard Book” too. There’s was a red KG9 for sale on eBay forever but I don’t know if it was original or not. Bill Kelly in Florida has a red KF9 that he fully restored but I think the motor was green when he started on it.

I’ve seen several two cylinder early fifties Mercs in many colors, but I’m pretty sure someone had taken artistic liberties with them. The only exception being the white KE7 motors I mentioned in the earlier post. In fact I saw a square tag KE7 in white that looked original probably a dozen years ago. It was brought to a Winnebagoland meet for one of the Merc guys to do a full resto for the owner.