Mercury Colour Descriptions

Colour Name	Years Used	Metallic/Solid	Description
Mercury Green	1947-55	Solid	Dark Green, commonly called "Cedar Green" though Mercury never called it that
20H Gold	1954-56	Metallic	Bright yellow shade of gold
Marlin Blue	1955-57	Metallic	Dark metallic blue with violet tint
Gulf Blue	1955-57	Solid	Light robins egg blue, Marlin Blue and Gulf Blue were only ever used with each other
Sarasota Blue	1955-57	Solid	Bright Turquoise blue - one of the nicer Mercury colours
Sunset Orange	1955-58	Solid	This is probably the most common colour next to Mercury Green, It is a very red shade of orange
Sand Tan	1955-58	Solid	Beige
Quicksilver Green	1956-57	Metallic	bright metallic green
Charcoal	1957-58	Metallic	metallic grey, much lighter than Evinrude's Charcoal Grey
Aztec Copper	1958	Metallic	Metallic red similar to Johnson's 1956 Holiday Bronze
Cavalry Brown	1958	Metallic	Dark metallic brown
Double Red	1958	unknown	unknown
Sandalwood	1958	Metallic	very light shade of gold, kind of a golden tan
Burgundy	1958	Metallic	Dark metallic red, darker and with less metal flake than the Aztec copper, looks like burgundy wine, nice colour
Buckskin Beige	1958	Solid	kind of a salmon pink, not at all beige
Matador	1958	Solid	bright orange
Bimini Blue	1959	Metallic	this is a blue with very heavy green leanings
Holiday Red	1959	Solid	this falls in between the Matador and Buckskin Beige, kind of an orangey pink, not as bright as the Matador but not as pink as the Buckskin Beige
Canyon Copper	1959	Metallic	a very light metallic copper colour
Cloud White	1959-63	Solid	white with yellow tint
Phantom Black	1963 & UP	Solid	black with blue and violet tints