Siamese Polaris Colts "DOUBLE"

[xcr440]

As promised, I finally found some pictures of my dad's 1967 Polaris Colt DOUBLE he built back in '72.

These are a pair of Colts that had the 2 bogie wheel set short tracks, 367cc JLO single lungers bored .100 thousands with Wiseco Pistons.

2 throttles, one in each hand on the handle bars, and 2 foot brakes, one on each running board. Right throttle running the right motor, right brake running the left track. Made for turns on a dime, and the merry go round rides my dad used to give us boys (5 and 3 at the time).

The motors were on custom mounts, so they could be lowered deeper into the belly pan, so the hoods could be cut to fit and lowered as well. A custom wide seat was eventually put on it, with a big seat belt that would keep my brother and I on it next to my dad.

Here's the pics

 

[peter]

Thats pretty cool

 

[toolmaker]

That's pretty wild engineering going on. Do you know what ever happened to it?

 

[indy_500]

that is just too cool. i'd savor those pics forever!

 

[xcr440]

That's pretty wild engineering going on. Do you know what ever happened to it?

It was eventually dismantled, and scrapped after 10-12 years. The motors were just sold a couple years ago to some guys wanting to get into the vintage racing.

 

[samc]

That is a sweet looking sled.

 

[mnguy]

What did your Dad do for a living? From the pics it looked like he did nice work building the sled.

 

[xcr440]

He was a self described "grease monkey", but really, he was a welder by trade with an engineering mind (If you can't buy what you need or want, build it, and/or make it better). He worked for Carl Bolander in the Twin Cities for 43 years before he retired about 10 years ago now.

His least favorite 3 words are "take it in", because he could fix it himself, and still does. If he couldn't fix it, it couldn't be fixed. Which was true about 99% of the time. Usually, it would be better than new when he was done with it.

In fact, if he needs a tool to fix something, and it costs more than a few dollars, he would just make the required tool himself, which in most cases worked better and lasted longer than the one you could buy.

I could list DOZENS of things over the years he's created, engineered, rebuilt, remanufactured, etc etc, but I'd be here typing for weeks......

 

[Professor PC]

As promised, I finally found some pictures of my dad's 1967 Polaris Colt DOUBLE he built back in '72.

These are a pair of Colts that had the 2 bogie wheel set short tracks, 367cc JLO single lungers bored .100 thousands with Wiseco Pistons.

2 throttles, one in each hand on the handle bars, and 2 foot brakes, one on each running board. Right throttle running the right motor, right brake running the left track. Made for turns on a dime, and the merry go round rides my dad used to give us boys (5 and 3 at the time).

The motors were on custom mounts, so they could be lowered deeper into the belly pan, so the hoods could be cut to fit and lowered as well. A custom wide seat was eventually put on it, with a big seat belt that would keep my brother and I on it next to my dad.

Here's the pics

that is SSWWWWEEEEETTTTTTT there XCR440