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Just posting to prove I’m not a total slacker. Mostly but not total. Finally got the transmission in the Cub Cadet so I could get that freeloader out of the shop and get some real work done. Made some progress on tearing down the new kid on the block. Removed the hood, exhaust, motor...

Well, the auction came and went and I restrained from putting in a bid on anything. It was really interesting to watch though and the auction house did an amazing job on this auction. The price on some of the more desirable sleds exploded in the final couple of days and it was obvious that some...

That she is, Eddie, that she is. I suppose it seems a little strange now but more than one sled of the day sported a stripe, Chaparral SS models probably being the most recognizable. It’s a little hard to visualize but it probably wouldn’t look out of place. I guess right now the plan is to...

The things I do…. Just walked in the door at 11:10 tonight after a 10-hour round-trip to Pine City, MN to pick up this: Finally gave up on the guy that has been promising to send me parts for months now and decided to take matters into my own hands. A co-worker stumbled across an ad for a...

These are good Gary! I might have heard about the Ski Dog at one time but I had no clue about the Scorpion rig. Very cool.

Gary, no doubt there are good restoration candidates in the group and a ton of parts but I’ve been looking at the lot from the perspective of what I think is cool and could be ridden with a minimum of effort. That being said, there are some that fit the bill and so far the bids haven’t been...

I know first-hand that you North Dakota riders run motors hard so I’m not surprised that if a motor had a weak spot, you guys would find it. I have wondered though, other than cooling, what the internal differences are between the 650 Red Baron version and my 650 axial fan version. My...

I can see that I"m going to become addicted to this auction site. Every time I look at it, I find something new and interesting. So far the bids are really low-ball and I guess we'll see if that changes in a few days. I"m wondering if some speculators won't get involved and buy up a few...

Did you find the link? It's in the Vintage Snowmobile Auction thread on this forum but here is the link as well: Vintage Snowmobile Auction

Steve, I wondered if you would get wind of this auction. I found out about in an ad in the local weekend shopper paper that gets delivered to the hardware store. If a person were into Vikings, this would be a dream auction. The stuff this fellow was able to collect is mind boggling. Given your...

As Rupp Collector said, Hirth Red Baron 650. These motors are highly prized by a lot of vintage guys and this guy had two, not to mention a Hirth triple! He has a couple of Sachs SA2/440C motors I wouldn't mind getting my hands on but not sure I want to make the trip for just a couple of...

Hope you like green, this chassis has a lot of it. With the satin black applied, the hood takes on a more serious look. It's weird how the shade of the green in the shots seems to change depending on the lighting. Guess it's a camera thing, in reality everything is the same color. We’ve...

Coming together nicely! Going to be one fast, sharp sled and by the looks of things, will be done in plenty of time for the Houghton adventurel.

Managing the hose takes patience (something I’m a little short on). If you get a kink that hooks on a sawhorse and you just give it a yank, the outcome could be very disappointing. Your shoes do start to stick to the plastic, in varying degrees, depending on how much paint you are spraying. I...

I sold my enclosed trailer that previously served as a temporary paint booth so I had to fashion one in the garage. It was probably overkill but it seems like the airborne spray gets everywhere. I don’t have a fancy rotisserie to rotate the chassis so I have to paint the chassis in two steps...

This is very cool. It's quite an honor and something that is earned, not given. Well deserved John, well deserved.

I wanted to share a project that Chris (m8man) did for me. I talked to him a while back about doing a Walleye piece to hang on the wall that I could give my wife for Christmas. We talked a bit about the concept and he threw out some ideas that I really liked and he went to work. I had seen...

I have not heard that saying but I appreciate getting the benefit of the doubt. As my wife always says though, "You're no Einstein." Considering how much of my life is consumed looking for my glasses, I shouldn’t find this funny but it still made me laugh. Leave it to you to pick that out. I...

Now that you point that out, it does look like a bee thing. Guess I better get it painted before I have the makings of a hive. Sooner or later, the tear-down of the actual project sled had to happen. It mostly went without issues and it didn’t take long to get quite a bit of the disassembly...