Need Mercury 40hp Year Confirmation

[fletchlives]

"I'm trying to find inform

"I'm trying to find information on a Mercury 40HP "blue stripe" cowl, with a serial number of "7190953". One site said it was a model number of "1040522". Can anyone help in determining the year model, and so forth?"

 

[galamb]

"Randy, that's a Canadian

"Randy, that's a Canadian serial number eh!

The Canadian records suck pretty bad, but based on notes etc that I have, believe your motor is either an 1980 or 81 model (thats as close as I can cross ref to the US serials in the same time frame)

- but definately not newer than 83 since I believe they changed the band colour to brown in 84."