POLARIS SETS SALES RECORD

The 1986-87 sale season, which included severe snow droughts in some prime snowmobile sales markets, was the sixth straight record-setting sales year for Polaris, which saw the total sales top $100 million for a one year period.

NEW FRM SKI-DOO IN 1982

ABOUT MYSELF

I would like to tell you a little more about myself.  As I've illustrated in my profile within this blog, my life has been centered around snowmobiles which includes the present time.  I was a Rupp dealer from 1969 thru it's death in 1978.  In 1980, I, along with some help made an attempt to bring Rupp Industries back into existence.  "GO HERE", To read all about this attempt.  In 1984, I moved to South Dakota and went on to expand my snowmobile parts and accessories operation by the name of SnoCat Shack and later was renamed Sport Shack, because of a legal matter.  I sold Sport Shack in 1996 and started a company by the name of Battery Shack and sold over 14,000 batteries in 10 years. "CLICK HERE", To learn more about this business.

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.
   Learn all about Rupp by "Clicking Here"

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.