Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted November 24, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Edmo said: My uncle had a garage full of early 70’s sleds. We’d show up and he was always working on something. Red ones not running today, ride the blue one lol. My old Rupp was that way but when she was running I thought she would do a 100 across the lake.🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Crappie Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 37 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: My old Rupp was that way but when she was running I thought she would do a 100 across the lake.🤣 Rupps were among the worst. We had one friend with a Rupp and one with a Merc. Almost every ride one of them didn't make it 5 miles and many rides neither of them did. LOL Our Scorpions were very reliable for the times other than the occasional belt flip over in the Salisbury primary clutch. Loved the fact you could lift the hood while under way to adjust the high speed mixture screw. LOL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted November 24, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, Big Crappie said: Rupps were among the worst. We had one friend with a Rupp and one with a Merc. Almost every ride one of them didn't make it 5 miles and many rides neither of them did. LOL Our Scorpions were very reliable for the times other than the occasional belt flip over in the Salisbury primary clutch. Loved the fact you could lift the hood while under way to adjust the high speed mixture screw. LOL IIRC it wasn’t even that old when I got it and it was already falling apart...I found some sort of vinyl material at The Ben Franklin and wrapped the seat foam but it never really attached it back to the sled so it was always flying off when I stood up...I was 6th or 7th grade at the time. At one point it needed a rebuild and my buddy’s dad from up the hill fixed her up for me. This was around 1978-79...it was a good time to be a kid.👍🏼🇺🇸 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted November 24, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said: IIRC it wasn’t even that old when I got it and it was already falling apart...I found some sort of vinyl material at The Ben Franklin and wrapped the seat foam but it never really attached it back to the sled so it was always flying off when I stood up...I was 6th or 7th grade at the time. At one point it needed a rebuild and my buddy’s dad from up the hill fixed her up for me. This was around 1978-79...it was a good time to be a kid.👍🏼🇺🇸 They were, hunting , fishing , sleds , dirtbikes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awful knawful Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 13 minutes ago, steve from amherst said: They were, hunting , fishing , sleds , dirtbikes + Baseball, atvs, hockey, sliding & hauling a gt snowracer behind the sled. How TF we're not dead and why our parents let us do the shit we did is beyond me. We got hurt bad and always came back for more. Kids now are pussies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted November 24, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 24, 2020 Just now, awful knawful said: + Baseball, atvs, hockey, sliding & hauling a gt snowracer behind the sled. How TF we're not dead and why our parents let us do the shit we did is beyond me. We got hurt bad and always came back for more. Kids now are pussies. When we were 12 we got an old ford falcon. KId who drove had to keep the window down. The rest of us would chuck apples at him ( unharvested apple tree's surrounded the filed) who ever hit him in the head with an apple got to drive . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awful knawful Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 minute ago, steve from amherst said: When we were 12 we got an old ford falcon. KId who drove had to keep the window down. The rest of us would chuck apples at him ( unharvested apple tree's surrounded the filed) who ever hit him in the head with an apple got to drive . Sounds about right. We had pellet gun wars. No shooting in the head 😂. They were so accurate, you know how that went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 My son did a lot of the same things i did when i was a kid. it's part of the reason i bought a place at the lake because i wanted them to have the same experiences. skiing, boats, sleds, atv's, dirtbikes, making jumps were all part of growing up. We got a call one night from someone we know at the PD because my son was towing kids around behind his jeep on a sled in a neighborhood. Wife and i laughed because we were doing that with friends into our 20's. Only time i got pissed about things he did was when he took his overheating jeep 4 wheeling with buddies and blew it up. Asked him why if the light came on he was still driving it. he pointed to the washer fluid and said i checked the fluid level. SMH Daughter on the other hand isn't real adventurous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Edmo said: My uncle had a garage full of early 70’s sleds. We’d show up and he was always working on something. Red ones not running today, ride the blue one lol. My uncle had a Ski-Daddler with a Hirth 800 triple in it. Sold it to a guy in town in the 80's with less then 200 miles on it. He said you'd take it out into the hay field or pasture and pin it. If you hooked good, you'd spend half the day replacing cleats. Between cleats, keeping 3 carbs in sync and 3 sparklers sparkling, he hated the thing. Said his Bruts were 10x the sled that pig was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 2 hours ago, racinfarmer said: My uncle had a Ski-Daddler with a Hirth 800 triple in it. Sold it to a guy in town in the 80's with less then 200 miles on it. He said you'd take it out into the hay field or pasture and pin it. If you hooked good, you'd spend half the day replacing cleats. Between cleats, keeping 3 carbs in sync and 3 sparklers sparkling, he hated the thing. Said his Bruts were 10x the sled that pig was. Flashbacks. The old sleds were works of art, and often complete pieces of shit. The sport was so much more colorful back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 59 minutes ago, DriftBusta said: Flashbacks. The old sleds were works of art, and often complete pieces of shit. The sport was so much more colorful back then. Ride for a hour, fix for three, drink for two, and use the trees to help steer you home. Sport is still plenty colorful among the vintage crowd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 11 hours ago, racinfarmer said: Ride for a hour, fix for three, drink for two, and use the trees to help steer you home. Sport is still plenty colorful among the vintage crowd. Yup. Smell like a gas can after every ride. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frostynuts Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 2 hours ago, DriftBusta said: Yup. Smell like a gas can after every ride. Good times. Yup, I,m really surprised that more old sledders didn,t explode into a ball of fire. The majority smoked, and with all the gas soaked crotches and mitts, it,s a wonder more guys and sleds didn,t catch on fire. LOL I remember way back in the sixties, one of our drunken friends was just ahead of me driving an old Ski-doo and veered off trail a bit and hit a stump. He cartwheeled off of the sled, flew right out of both boots that were still in the sled when it finally stopped. His old open face helmet and glasses were packed full of snow, and he was trying to figure out what the hell just happened. Once we seen him up and stumbling around, we kinda figured he was ok, and everyone in the group laughed their asses off. Surprising how long it took him to realize he was in his sock feet. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awful knawful Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 About 20 years ago on a drunken run, had a guy flip his cat completely upside down on the trail. We come around the corner and find him quite upset, sitting on the track, he couldn't find the handlebars 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 21 hours ago, racinfarmer said: Ride for a hour, fix for three, drink for two, and use the trees to help steer you home. Sport is still plenty colorful among the vintage crowd. All our sleds had a old leather shaving bag full of tools except the yammis . My uncle owned a skiorule dealer in Clearwater . I remember spending almost every Friday night in the shop full of guys wrenching and drinking so we could ride on Friday. I cant remember any Ride that did not have at least 1 break down . Lots of blackberry brandy consumed during trailside fix it sessions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 8 hours ago, Frostynuts said: Yup, I,m really surprised that more old sledders didn,t explode into a ball of fire. The majority smoked, and with all the gas soaked crotches and mitts, it,s a wonder more guys and sleds didn,t catch on fire. LOL I remember way back in the sixties, one of our drunken friends was just ahead of me driving an old Ski-doo and veered off trail a bit and hit a stump. He cartwheeled off of the sled, flew right out of both boots that were still in the sled when it finally stopped. His old open face helmet and glasses were packed full of snow, and he was trying to figure out what the hell just happened. Once we seen him up and stumbling around, we kinda figured he was ok, and everyone in the group laughed their asses off. Surprising how long it took him to realize he was in his sock feet. They were also soaks in Hamm's and Pabst and schnapps. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 4 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: All our sleds had a old leather shaving bag full of tools except the yammis . My uncle owned a skiorule dealer in Clearwater . I remember spending almost every Friday night in the shop full of guys wrenching and drinking so we could ride on Friday. I cant remember any Ride that did not have at least 1 break down . Lots of blackberry brandy consumed during trailside fix it sessions My dad says their first sleds were a Ski Doo TNT and a John Deere 600 or something like that. Fixed them all the time. Got a Lynx 2 and an El Tigre and they finally didn't have to fix on shit constantly. He said the Liquidator was kind of a pile too. One uncle had a pair of Sno-Twisters that always ran well. Another had the Ski Daddler followed by Bruts and Deeres. Then there is me. The old Trailcat and a pile of Yamaha 292 shit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awful knawful Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Bud had a JD liquifire. Pos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostynuts Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 11 hours ago, racinfarmer said: They were also soaks in Hamm's and Pabst and schnapps. LOL There is certainly truth to that. I remember a lot of wineskins being carried around, with a lot of different flavors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted November 26, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 26, 2020 4 hours ago, awful knawful said: Bud had a JD liquifire. Pos They were. I had one too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted November 28, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 28, 2020 Seems like a pretty decent deal...Coldwater, MI... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 54 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Seems like a pretty decent deal...Coldwater, MI... That is a pretty square deal. Less than I paid for my 20 Back Country 850 base model. Bro was sniffing around and got a price on a new SBA 146 Matrix, like almost 18 grand WTF 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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