A childhood friend reached out to me on Facebook to share an old photo of us on our sleds that his older brother had taken. I'm on the Doo thinking that I am looking cool .

I'm guessing it's around 1985.

What ya got to share?

2 minutes ago, sleepybrew said:

we must be close in age. we had the same, plus sand casting, welding, automotive, sheet metal, ceramics

Casting/foundry, welding, sheet metal and machinist stuff, lathe, milling machines, grinders..etc....  

1 hour ago, Jerry 976 said:

Who remembers installing Steel Wear Rods on their steel skis?? Then Wear Rods that had a hardened surface on them, someone welded a bead on the wear rod?? Then the game changer....Carbides on the Skags 90* & then 60* carbides?? 

Gas caps that had a dip stick on the cap? Mark the dip stick so you could guess how many gallons of gas and how much oil to mix........ 

 

 

My dad said back in the day, they'd take the steel wear rods, grind a flat spot on them, and braze a smallish triangular file onto them and grind off the teeth a bit for ice racing and whatnot.

Hell, even my first couple sleds I got to put plastic ski skins on them. 

Thought it was pretty tits when I put pink ski skins on that 77 Lynx and the pink matched the decals!

8 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said:

I used to go to that, is that what became the Great Whiteout in Fulton?

Yes I think it was called that even then. It was at Rolling wheels speedway outside of Syracuse, they just moved it up to Fulton NY. 
 

I had an awful addiction to old Polaris sleds over 20 years ago. Still have the family sleds, but sold everything else. 

3 minutes ago, XCR INDY said:

Yes I think it was called that even then. It was at Rolling wheels speedway outside of Syracuse, they just moved it up to Fulton NY. 
 

I had an awful addiction to old Polaris sleds over 20 years ago. Still have the family sleds, but sold everything else. 

my sister lived down the road from Rolling Wheels, we went for few years, I try to make the Fulton one every year 

16 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said:

my sister lived down the road from Rolling Wheels, we went for few years, I try to make the Fulton one every year 

Wife and I went in ‘22. They just had the show a couple weeks ago. We thought about going because of low snow to ride in NY. We ended up trucking up to Pittsburg NH to ride. Either direction would be about 4 hours for us. 

1 hour ago, Jerry 976 said:

Casting/foundry, welding, sheet metal and machinist stuff, lathe, milling machines, grinders..etc....  

i use most of those skills today. 

2 hours ago, XCR INDY said:

We even had an auto body/ custom painting class at our school .  It was dropped just before I got up there. My older brother took it. I remember him taking in our ‘72 Polaris atx 335 hood, it was supposed to be a custom flame job but looked more like a bunch of bent up pitch forks. Wish I had a picture. 

My first attempt at flames!!!  

That little sled ripped, it was very competitive back in the day.  Lot of fun out in the lake with my dad. Got it back out in the 90’s and got it going again. 

Project waiting to be finished. Something my dad and I started long time ago. Too bad we never got to finish it together

Edited February 23, 20232 yr by Skidooski

1 minute ago, Skidooski said:

Project waiting to happen. Something my dad and I started long time ago. Too bad we never got to finish it together

Nice.  going all out? 
That would stress me the fuck out.  I can’t leave things apart like that.  

7 minutes ago, Cold War said:

Nice.  going all out? 
That would stress me the fuck out.  I can’t leave things apart like that.  

In his honor I think I will go all out....On this Phazer II LE   

When I moved out west for a number of years the project went idol and then he started misplacing parts. So I have to acquire a bunch of stuff yet. Will end up being way more money put into this then it's worth

 

5 hours ago, Cold War said:

My first attempt at flames!!!  

That little sled ripped, it was very competitive back in the day.  Lot of fun out in the lake with my dad. Got it back out in the 90’s and got it going again. 

Sabrina Blanchet races ovals on a sled similar to that, she is super fast.

 

10 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

Sabrina Blanchet races ovals on a sled similar to that, she is super fast.

 

It is a aluminum EXT chassis.  running a couple hundred ram sets in track for picks. 
440 had everything done it.  It would turn every head on the ice when it started up.  Good, clean ice and it would leave the line like a rocket.  Once the ice got tore up it was hard to launch it.  

Not an old pic but it does have old sleds. The one on the far left is what I rode as a kid. My dad and brother restored it in 07ish.

Edited February 24, 20232 yr by Sled_Hed

56 minutes ago, Cold War said:

It is a aluminum EXT chassis.  running a couple hundred ram sets in track for picks. 
440 had everything done it.  It would turn every head on the ice when it started up.  Good, clean ice and it would leave the line like a rocket.  Once the ice got tore up it was hard to launch it.  

I see that it looks like a cat now that you mention it, her sled is a Ski-Doo snopro clone I think.

 

Her 440 free air is 130 hp

 

4 hours ago, Jerry 976 said:

 

i grew up riding one of those. friend's dad had it and we ran the shit out of it. what a feeling

Marv was the king of hot rods on ice

10 minutes ago, Sleepr2 said:

Marv was the king of hot rods on ice

I was a dealer for Marv, Chopper City, I used to sit in his office and shoot the bull with him, saw that sled run in person.

1 minute ago, XCR1250 said:

I was a dealer for Marv, Chopper City, I used to sit in his office and shoot the bull with him, saw that sled run in person.

Yup , known him since 76, bought sleds and had burgers with back when he was still on Lowry . 

with my uncle on his Rupp and me on the 72Tnt 340, then on dads 73 Fa400.  What a rocket that thing was

My work in progress ‘79 SRX, just like dad had. I also have a ‘79 ET 300 just like my mom had.