Any still ride the old machines? I'm thinking about buying one and fixing it up for this winter, just a little something to play around on when the snows to deep for the DS.

 

like an old jd liquid fire!!! sweet but ruff on the butt

 

yep, just like that sort of thing, i'm going to look for a ski-doo everest or tnt, or even a yamaha enticer

 

Ill do ya one better.. the first sled I had was an Evinrude Free-Air. Do you remeber those ? Where the motor was open to the rider when you were sitting there .. right in your crotch?? kind of kep ya warm..sort of.
That thing was a TANK!!! But we thought it was the best thing since sliced bread ! Pretty sturdy too! I went down a steep hill littered with trees and couldnt turn at the bottom when I needed to, Stuck it in a tree and bent the tube bumper ! Took me a half hour to pull it back up the hill enough to get around the tree! I was 13 and out on a run by myself scared the sh*t out of me when it happened.
My next sled was the John Deer Trail Fire many years later that was my last one then came to the desert....

I fell off my buddys Ski Doo 440 ( the old ones with the squared off heads and the fins sticking up through the hood) while haulin butt across a Wisconsin lake.... that was interesting .. did you know that sliding on snow at 40+ mph isnt as smooth as it is when on skiis ??

ahhhhhh , the good old days .......

 

Raiders are prettty sweet old sleds. You sit down in them like a go cart, they have a rear engine with dual tracks under the engine. Fast too.

 

81 Kawasaki Invader 440 LTD 4/6 that needs a home. Don't get nearly the snow in Kansas as did growing up in Minnesota.

 

Long time ago one of my 4 brothers had a Massey Ferguson Ski-Whiz!

 

My dad still has the 1965 ski-doo sled that he bought around 1970. We beat the crap out of that thing and it still kept going. Big round yellow front end with this little tiny engine in it. No suspension at all.

Those john deere sleds were sweet when they first came out. Very fast too if I remember correctly.

 

When I lived in Minnesota a teacher sold me a 73 Yamaha 350. That thing was pretty darn fast and I was only 12 at the time but had a blast with it, track broke the second winter I had it. It was oil injection but someone disconnected that so we mixed it the old fashion way. My stepdad had one of the old Evinrudes, not the open engine model but a few years newer, it was a lot of fun, not as fast as my Yamaha. I saw a LOT of those old yellow Ski Doo's, we lived on Hwy 78 which was a popular snowmobile route.