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This topic covers the replica of the 1957 Mercury Mermaid Speed Record and Racing Car.
I found out about this obscure beauty earlier this morning (as of writing)
Under the hood of this beauty is a modified 1957 Lincoln V8, with its displacement upped from 368 to 387 cubic inches with a .125 inch overbore. The motor also features Forgedtrue pistons, Hilborn constant-flow fuel injection, a Scintilla magneto, a Harmon & Collins roller cam, and custom-made Hedman Hedders exhaust headers. Reportedly, the engine produced around 400 horsepower on Stropp’s dyno.
Mind you, that is not the original Mermaid. It’s a faithful replica of the Mermaid built in 2000 by Royce Brechler. The original Mermaid was parted out sometime in the late 1950s after DNF’ing in the 1959 Kiwanis Grand Prix.
Guess we’ll have to settle for the replica then. Didn’t even see that information while researching.
Plus, I made a reply in the thread about the Mercury Monterey about the Mermaid.
https://forums.forza.net/t/mercury-monterey-1957-1958/575029/3?u=plumcrane731975
I saw that, but I figured it was unique enough that it warranted its own thread.
Perhaps it might be unique enough from other Monterey variants to have its own thread. We’ll have to leave that up to the forum mods.
I don’t really consider it a variant since it was a custom build. To me, variant means implies “built in-house with the manufacturer heavily involved.” I was under the impression the guy who built the Mermaid, though working with Mercury to some degree, did a majority of the work himself in a shop rather than in a Mercury factory.
Nonetheless, IMO they should put this car into the game, or in a future installment of the Horizon series. PG oughta ask Royce Brechler if he’d let them scan his Mermaid replica so that they can program it into the game.
