My First Snowmobile was a .....

[skiroule]

I got a kick out of your story about how much the old Johnson would pull. My dad also had a 67 Skee-Horse. It was well used when he bought it and it didn’t come with a seat so he built a bench seat and added a sofa cushion. It was like riding a couch and about the same size. He used to trap beaver in the spring and would pull a small aluminum boat though the woods with it so he could get out on the ponds to set traps. Didn’t really matter whether there was snow or not.

 

[rv245]

The first sled we had was a 67 Silverline T-Bird (off brand of a Yukon King), that I dad bought during the blizzard of 67. I road the crap out of it, along with all the fixing of it. The sled had a 10hp JLO single with a recoiler that had a metal cable that constantly need fixing. The first sled that I bought on my own was a 71 Elan. I saved my paper route money like forever to buy that sled. In all honestly that is probably my favorite sled of all time and I've had a lot of great sleds. Maybe because it was my first sled, but than again that sled could go anywhere, never had a problem with it either.

 

[mike1970]

1976 Arctic Cat Jag 3000 for me. So many good times on that sled that I can't even recount them all. The odometer stopped working at 7000 miles. Rode it for several more seasons before my dad finally got rid of it and I upgraded to a 1983 Polaris Cutlass. It was our first oil injected sled and had direct drive.