Picture of your first sled.

mrsrunningbear

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Our firsts were a couple of old sleds we bombed around the farm on 82 or 83 Skidoo Blizzard 9500 and a Scorpion Whip 440 The Skidoo was the first sled Bear came to the U.P. with
But the 1989 400 in the picture was the first sled I could say was mine and bought for me and the 1989 500 was Bears first New Sled
 

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indy_500

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Our firsts were a couple of old sleds we bombed around the farm on 82 or 83 Skidoo Blizzard 9500 and a Scorpion Whip 440 The Skidoo was the first sled Bear came to the U.P. with
But the 1989 400 in the picture was the first sled I could say was mine and bought for me and the 1989 500 was Bears first New Sled

those are 2 nice first sleds! :) Indy like
 

indy_500

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Here's mine, 93 Indy Trail, got it for my 10th bday. Lasted till 8000 miles then the rear torque arm in the rear suspension snapped in half from jumping too much. Last pic is of it leaving :( oh, and that 4th pic is a "stuck" :)
 

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Mine was bought in 1968 by my Dad. It was a Rupp 18 h.p. I'm not sure what year it was but it wasn't "new". It had a flat back on the seat with a pull down "kick stamd" to hold the track up off of the ground. We might have some pics on slides...that was the big thing back then......ah memories:)
 

chords

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'70 Moto Ski After many flips and rolls I kept the low windshield
 

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gary_in_neenah

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Dad bought our first new snowmobile on Christmas Eve of 68, a 1969 Arctic Cat Panther. 19 H.P. about 30 miles per hour (down hilll) The gas tank leaked, the headlight burned out, all for the price of $800 and a free case of Snobil. No Helmet, No Suit, No Problem!

Apparently the Family Dog was a snowmobiler too. "Get off me you crazy mutt".
 

mrsrunningbear

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Ok I found some pics of the oldies our real firsts and I was wrong the blizzard was a 1979 and the whip a 1976 Boy their ugly LOL
 

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Bradzoo

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Well this one is a couple years newer than mine, but its close, it was a 1969 Rupp GT300 Sno Sport
 

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zrgrl

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First ones that I can remember as a kid were an El Tigre, EXT, Wildcat, 2 Cougars, and a good ol' Jag.
 

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Our one and only sled my Dad ever bought, was a two year old 1969 Viking. Had the Peacock colored hood and a Kohler 300 single banger under the hood. We rode the crap out of that sled (on the farm only)for three years until we basically killed it. We used to put two of us on the snowmobile, pulling two more behind on an aluminum "Sno-Wing". Oh, and of course, that was secured to the sled by the ever-present baler twine ropes! God, we had fun on that old sled. IF- and I do emphasize-IF the track stayed on. The tracks were such a soft rubber on those that any time you went over changing terrain the track jumped the drive cogs. Ours looked exactly like this beauty.
 
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