snowmobiles

[mulitweed]

are any of you into vintage snowmobiles ?

 

[not2old]

I've gotten too old to ride vintage sleds off the groomed trail so I sold them.

 

[mulitweed]

ok used yo have a nice trail here had a couple winters no snow and the club disbanded state shut down the trail sucks

 

[Jstpssng]

Does this qualify? It's my sister's now. My BIL wants to get it running again but I doubt it will ever happen.

 

[Rockbadchild]

My bravo is vintage enough for me, I could've got my hands on a old Olympic 300 the other day but it was not the original paint and how many sled do one guy need so I let it pass... they are fun but only once the trail had been done. One of my buddy do a vintage sled rally every year, its a lot of fun but again I get pretty much the same feeling with my bravo plus it can drive through the snow easier.

There she is the old olympic I could’ve bought, my friend bought it

 

[Rockbadchild]

that’s his rally, I would love to get my hands on one of these hus-kie

 

[Jstpssng]

My bravo is vintage enough for me, I could've got my hands on a old Olympic 300 the other day but it was not the original paint and how many sled do one guy need so I let it pass... they are fun but only once the trail had been done. One of my buddy do a vintage sled rally every year, its a lot of fun but again I get pretty much the same feeling with my bravo plus it can drive through the snow easier.

There she is the old olympic I could’ve bought, my friend bought it
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This was an Elan, Bombardier's smallest sled in the '70's.

 

[Jstpssng]

that’s his rally, I would love to get my hands on one of these hus-kie

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Bolens, '73 Panther, Yamaha, El Tigre... I can't see enough of the rest but is the second from the end an old Evinrude?
Edit; the one before that looks like an old Cat... Perhaps a Pantera?

 

[Hay Dude]

I’ve always wanted to replace my John Deere Spitfire, but it snows so little here anymore

 

[Rockbadchild]

Bolens, '73 Panther, Yamaha, El Tigre... I can't see enough of the rest but is the second from the end an old Evinrude?
Edit; the one before that looks like an old
Cat... Perhaps a Pantera?

your guess are as good as mine… this should help

 

[Rockbadchild]

I’ve always wanted to replace my John Deere Spitfire, but it snows so little here anymore

do you have pictures of that beauty ? I didn't even know John deere ever been in the snowmobile game.

 

[Jstpssng]

do you have pictures of that beauty ? I didn't even know John deere ever been in the snowmobile game.

Everybody made snowsleds back in the '70s. Evinrude, Johnson, Mercury, all got into the game. Plus there were hundreds of smaller companies which either failed or merged with somebody else. Now there are only two remaining; Polaris and Bombardier.

The John Deere was liquid cooled if I remember correctly.

 

[mulitweed]

View attachment 2142922 Does this qualify? It's my sister's now. My BIL wants to get it running again but I doubt it will ever happen.

thats cool

 

[Hay Dude]

Everybody made snowsleds back in the '70s. Evinrude, Johnson, Mercury, all got into the game. Plus there were hundreds of smaller companies which either failed or merged with somebody else. Now there are only two remaining; Polaris and Bombardier.

The John Deere was liquid cooled if I remember correctly.

Even Massey Ferguson made sleds

 

[Rockbadchild]

Everybody made snowsleds back in the '70s. Evinrude, Johnson, Mercury, all got into the game. Plus there were hundreds of smaller companies which either failed or merged with somebody else. Now there are only two remaining; Polaris and Bombardier.

The John Deere was liquid cooled if I remember correctly.

Yeah I know about the one you mentioned but didn't know about John deere

Although not official but looks like CF moto bough Artic cats, what is official is that they sponsored the snowcross

https://www.hardcoresledder.com/threads/cf-moto-sponsoring-national-snocross.1895778/

 

[Jstpssng]

My cousin had a Harley Davidson sled which he would have given to me, but I didn't have a place to store it at the time. I believe they were about as reliable as the bikes of that vintage...when AMF owned the company.

 

[Rockbadchild]

My cousin had a Harley Davidson sled which he would have given to me, but I didn't have a place to store it at the time. I believe they were about as reliable as the bikes of that vintage...when AMF owned the company.

Something like this one I am assuming ?

 

[Mike sandor]

I just found this old Yamaha last week. It was left in the backwoods of my property that we bought a few years back. It looks to be pretty well complete, not sure what size it is. Bonus is that I found an old disc close by as well. I might take some time to pull them out of the woods this spring.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I just found this old Yamaha last week. It was left in the backwoods of my property that we bought a few years back. It looks to be pretty well complete, not sure what size it is. Bonus is that I found an old disc close by as well. I might take some time to pull them out of the woods this spring.

the old, ''not for sale I will restore that one day''

I remember seeing these ''trunk'' on the back of these Yamaha a couch on skies

 

[Hay Dude]

do you have pictures of that beauty ? I didn't even know John deere ever been in the snowmobile game.

Not mine, but similar