Old snowmobiles
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Topic: Old snowmobiles
Posted By: Animal Cracker
Subject: Old snowmobiles
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 8:55am
Anyone here have or had old snowmobiles. Mainly from the 60's - 80's. In addition to my appreciation for old A/C lawn and garden tractors, I love old sleds I got my first one in the early 70's and it was a ski doo olympic. I can remember the snowmobile boom with commercials on tv and at nights during the winter the sounds of sleds running constantly. I believe there were about 150 manufactures then,some were tractor companies. Did anyone ever race them or know anyone that raced. |
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Posted By: steelwheelAcjim
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 12:01pm
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I use to be into old John Deere Liquifire's. I gave up after a few Winters of little or no snow to ride them. a neighbor was into older Yamaha's. 340 Snow Twisters, and 440's. ------------- Pre-WW2 A-C tractors on steel wheels...because I'm too cheap to buy tires! |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 12:29pm
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We still have, though none in running order: 1979 John Deere Liquifire (fast beast for it's day!) 1976 Yamaha GS 340 19?? Moto Ski not sure the year? Right around 1970 possibly? 2 big ol' Johnsons with the fold up seat and reverse! Piles O' Junk that won't turn! LOL They all would be in the "ran when parked" category, nothing really wrong with any of them. Lost time, snow, then would have required more time to tinker and get running. I knew 2 brothers very well that raced Arctic Cats back in the day. And they were successful, winning a lot of the 250 mile races around MI often enough, and a couple of I-500's in Sault Ste. Marie as well.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 12:31pm
Moto Ski is Orange and Black!
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Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 3:50pm
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Animal Cracker, Your location shows Central NY, heavy snowmobile country for sure and I grew up there. Even rode sleds to school and my grandfather was a Polaris dealer, plenty of sleds on the farm when you have a dealer in the family and I am one of eight kids. We had an A-C dealer on one side of the family and Polaris on the other, cousin raced StarFire's from mid-late 70's throughout the NE very successfully. My brother collected Polaris sleds for over 40 years and passed last year. Over 100 sleds when he passed; everything from some of the earliest rear engine units to factory RXL Starfire's, and 99% Polaris. Collection was kept in a nice building with sleds stored on pallet racks, brought down and put back up with a loader tractor for shows, antique rides/drag races. I was just back in the Mohawk Valley and to my knowledge, my SIL has not sold any of these units as she needed some time after his passing. Units I viewed in his collection over the years were nearly all restored, down to the OEM fasteners and correct decals as he was picky about originality. PM me if interested as she may be willing to part with some of them and there was talk previously of an on-line auction, advertised heavily in MN, WI, MI and throughout NY as he was a well known Polaris man. Tim
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Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 9:32pm
| I have a Yamaha 440 Exciter red and white had it out a few years ago sitting on a shelf in the shed. I wish I had my 1973 340 TNT and 75 440FA TNT |
Posted By: Animal Cracker
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 7:52am
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DanWi wrote:Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 11:00pm
| i ride a 76 sno jet sst with a 1 1/4 track and a 500 fa out of a 78 el tigre. the other one i ride is a 76 moto ski spirit that is getting all of the 300 ss elan engine clutches pipe with a better slide suspension out of the 76 sst only useing 7t drivers with 2.52 pitch that i s the summer project . some one should move this over to shops and barns |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 11:55am
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Had a 1976 Artic Cat Pantera 5000. Black with orange and yellow stripes. She sported a Comet clutch and she was raced and never beaten. (It was only in one race, but still---never beaten LOL) ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2018 at 9:19pm
| In the 70s I had a Mercury lightning. Moved to ND don't need one here. 80s & 90s I was stationed near Marquette Michigan. Lots of snow good riding I had an Arctic Cat Cheeta two jhonsons and two Evnrudes. Last year I bought an old Johnson JX 650 . Made me rember why I don't ride out here. The wind driven snow is hard as concrete. |
Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2018 at 11:20pm
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We had an old Ski-Doo(yellow) and Sno-Jet(blue) on the old NY farm that my Dad, 2 brothers and I played around with in the winter time. Haven't ridden 1 since then going on 30 years now. ------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic" |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2018 at 9:07am
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I have dad 1972 Polaris Colt SS340. My dad worked for the dealer he bought it from. He bought it in the crate, brought it home, and put it together himself. Has the optional speedometer and the seat is in all original condition too. It does run ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |