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Pics from the U.P. snowmobile ride

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  1. yooperdave

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    Wow! Lots of brands that I had forgotten about!
     
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    Ok
    more trivia
    who first used the name snowmobile?
    I learned this at the museum
     
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    Ski cycle
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    Skeeters
     
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    Skee Whee
     
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    I had to look it up to find out.
     
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    Moleba Ski
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    Oh... and who could forget the Swedish Hussky lol
     
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    and the Ski Lark
    made in California
     
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    This....

    The term “snowmobile” pre-dates anything anyone would recognize today. The word was used at least as far back as the 1910s to describe several early snow-traveling vehicles that closely followed the development of the first automobile.

    In New Hampshire, the town of West Ossipee has a sign proclaiming it as the “Home of the First Snowmobile” for the kit to modify a Ford Model T that a local Ford dealer patented in 1917. In Fairbanks, the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum has a snow vehicle from that vintage on display. It’s a Model T-adapted vehicle known as a Snow Flyer.
     
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    Like this...

    Santa_Claus_Fred_Astaire_Ford_Model_T_Snowmobile_zpsa0ada2a4.jpg
     
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    Here are a few pics from the snowmobile museum in Michigan
    they were never available in black. Green only as the were for the forest commission, IIRC
    DSCN1614.JPG KIMG0272.jpg KIMG0271.jpg
    Brass tag on ski
    KIMG0270.jpg
     
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    Model T Ford Snowmobile Club National Meet 2009
     
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    That's right, we're up here in NH helping people get around in the snow for 99 years. Plus before that as well.:rofl: :lol:
     
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    Great video... so good to see all of those antiques in such perfect running shape.
     
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    Felt like I was cheating When I looked it up!
     
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    I was very lucky to be in my teens when snow sleds were really taking off. It was so incredibly exciting to just be able to go across snow at 10 mph. Our family had Polaris, Snojet & Skidoo machines in the barn over those years. We never had a Moto-Ski Horkn but I remembered an ad that was on TV back then and I just found it. Before trails were as smooth as I-95... machines were beat up pretty good. Enjoy this 1971 Moto-Ski ad...

     
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    It looks so unassuming.
    There is a 100x200 pond that is very still and a 50 foot wide river running out of it
    Really neat
     
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    I want one of those in my front yard... ;)
     
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    Awesome ad for its time
    Thanks for posting it up
     
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