Saturday, June 28, 2014

RUPP INDUSTRIES RECEIVING ADVERTISING REWARD

Eight awards for marketing and creative excellence in advertising and sales promotion were awarded to Rupp Industries for 1971.
   Rupp received one first award with no second or third place honors of excellence. The first award  was for the best coordinated advertising campaign.  This was the third consecutive year that Rupp has captured top honors in that category.
   Other awards to Rupp included Citations of Excellence for point of purchase display; sales aids; trade paper ad; radio commercial, 60 seconds; consumer magazine campaign, 3 or more colors; direct mail, folder stuffer, and 24 sheet outdoor poster. This included all of the companies products - snowmobiles, cycles, Ruppsters and carts.
  Rupp was also awarded a Certificate of  Excellence in Graphic Design by The Meade Paper Company for the companies 1970 Annual Report, the first annual report for Rupp, which went public in April of 1970.
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Friday, June 27, 2014

1977 ARCTIC CAT LINEUP

After lying dormant for a year, the Lynx emerges as Arctic Cat's "newest" sled for '77.  Restyled and redesigned from the track up, the Lynx is aimed at the snowmobiler looking for a sled with lightweight price and heavy weight value.
   In addition, Arctic is back with it's bread-and-butter machines:
Jag
Pantera
El Tigre
Panther
Cheeta

Thursday, June 26, 2014

1980 KAWASAKI INVADER LTD 4/6

The 1980 Kawasaki LTD 4/6 not only looked good but also performed good.
  The Invader LTD 4/6 went far beyond any Kawasaki snowmobile ever introduced.  It paralleled the original Invader concept, but delivered more performance combined with more standard features than most snowmobiles offered as options.
   Its rich glacier green coat with silver black accents with gold pin stripping was an indication of the engineering effort put into the LTD.
   The LTD is powered by a newly developed four-into-six transfer port 440cc liquid-cooled engine designed to provide a denser, more quickly fired fuel charge.  The engine uses a twin spark plug capacitor discharge ignition (CDI) and dual tuned exhaust for optimum performance.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

THE 1989 ARCTIC CAT SHIFTER

There was no more pulling, rotating or pushing with the new 1989 Arctic reverse.
Simply turn the lever left for reverse or right to go forward

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

1972 YAMAHA SL292 SNOWMOBILE

The new feature for the  1972 Yamaha's, new model snowmobiles was the gear-driven autolube which automatically metered the oil to the engine according to the rpm's and how hard the engine's working. This was to be a remedy to fouled plugs.
Probably the start to oil injection in other lines of snowmobiles.

Monday, June 23, 2014

SLEDDING IN CALIFORNIA & NEVADA

Nevada is better known for gambling, but The California/Nevada Snowmobilers have found there's more to do during the winter than playing 21.
   More than 31 snowmobile clubs have joined The California/Nevada Snowmobile Association and more clubs are expected to follow.
   Hundreds of  members who are convinced that they hold claim to the best snow in the west.
   This claim may be hard to prove, the association builds it's claim around several excellent snowmobile locations, including Hope Valley, Little Trucker Summit and Oregon Summit.
   When you add the glamour of the proximity of resort towns such as South Lake Tahoe and Reno to snowmobile meccas such as Mt. Rose, it's easy to see why the sport of snowmobiling is a good bet in these two states.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

1976 MASSEY SNOWMOBILE LINEUP

The New Winds Called Massey:
Chinook - The compact, economical family sled with a twin cylinder 295cc fan cooled Cuyuna engine.

Whirlwind - The all around sports sled which featured a Para-Rail suspension and a new Cuyuna fan cooled 340cc or 440cc engine.

Cyclone - The big performance cross-country competitor with Can Am styling and a liquid cooled two or three cylinder engine.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

SNOWMOBILING IN THE NEEDLES

The Needles at the Black Hills of South Dakota is a very different experience.  It features great sledding and a unique change of scenery.  It is located on Highway #87 and a must see when snowmobiling in The Black Hills of South Dakota.

Friday, June 20, 2014

1986 ARCTIC CAT PANTERA

Independent Front Suspension Made The 1986 Pantera Stronger - One would be hard pressed to believe anything else but that the AFS helped improve the ride of the Pantera.
   The Pantera maintained all the luxuries of the past liquid cooling, handlebar warmers, instrumentation, gauges and an electric start option.
   As for comfort, the A-frame front suspension provided seven inches of travel for each ski with its inboard mounted coil-overshock design.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

NEW LIFE FOR SKIROULE

September 1974 - Wickham, Que.- The Skiroule snowmobile line, which had been in a state of limbo since early 1974 when it's parent company, "The Coleman Company," announced its intention to divest itself of the snowmobile operation, has received new life. 
  The Skiroule snowmobile division had been sold by Coleman to H.M.K. Manufacturing, LTD., Montreal.  The president said he plans to continue the operation of Skiroule and that production of parts for the new 1975 models was already underway.