Dropping of vintage sled today.

Not much snow in my area today, so it was a good day to haul a Mercury Snotwister to a buddy's garage.

We have some snow, just not enough for riding.

A classic, 1975 Mercury SnoTwister, 340 free air. I'm gonna miss that sled, it's been on SnowmobilerTV a couple times and my son drove it on parade laps on the ice oval tracks.

Trash to Trails Update: The 88 MX

A few weeks ago Jason started working on the 88 MX. At first we thought this one would go way smoother than the 86 MX, but we wrong, very wrong.

Here is the 88 MX as we bought it. Yes, that's a custom freestyle seat that fits 3. The red plexi-glass windshield actually required many hours of labour to form it and fit properly. We're leaving it on to keep the previous owner, Josh, happy that all his work wasn't for nothing.

You can see that all the paint is peeling from the hood. It had been repaired at one time and the paint just doesn't want to stick. Sand paper, kryolon spray paint, and time is required to fix this up.

This is basically how the sled sits now, except the track, suspension, and driveline is now installed. Note there is no motor. It's at the shop getting a new top end and crank seals. Did not see that one coming! Also, check out the seat. It's in perfect shape and Jason scored it from the Peterborough snowmobile show for $50. Good find.

This is what one of the rails looked like. We replaced it with a used rail and found the other one was so wore it needed to be replaced as well. Check the front arm on these suspensions, they break easily and most have been reinforced. Will add some pics when the motor goes back in and the hood is finished. Should look good.