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Friday, June 7, 2013
spare spark plugs mounted next to the gauge and clock... and in inclinometer... very cool
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All from http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
a road grader, or snow plow, by Champion Road Machinery company, Goderich Ontario... with and without cat tracks
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
tandem trailer snowplow, articulated, and preset to drop the plow, and angle off side to get a teamed up snowplow action for 2 lanes at once with a single driver, cool!
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 11:34 AMfound on http://stipistop.com/
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Greatest show on snow, the Amsoil Snocross 2012-2013 season is in full swing, Duluth is finished, on to Bessemer
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1945 -51 Bombardier B-12 snow bus.. used as as ambulances, school buses, mail delivery and bus/taxi operators.
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Hagerty TV added video coverage to the vintage Snow Mobiles in their magazine that I posted a little while ago
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The Snow Machine coverage is after the Jay Leno interview about Corvairs, and starts at minute 5:02
Found at http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Video/Hagerty-Classic-Car-TV?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=HCCTV&utm_campaign=Episode21 because I signed up to get their newsletters, and video notifications (great stuff!)
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Red Bull brings in the new year, Levi LaVallee broke his own world record for distance jumped on a snowmobile by launching 412 feet
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http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/red-bull-new-year-no-limits-021243143084453
ESPN has a much better video at http://espn.go.com/action/story/_/id/7409827/new-year-no-limits
LaVallee jumped alongside Robbie Maddison, who unofficially broke the world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle during practice for Saturday night's event. Maddison said he jumped 392 feet during practice but during the live event, he came up just short of the 391-foot record, landing at 378 feet, 9 inches.
After working out the details of their individual approaches, the pair sailed through the air, in synchronistic fashion, jumping over 300 feet of water from the North to the South at the Embarcadero Marina Park. Robbie Maddison was leading at about 110 mph with Levi LaVallee gaining, as if in the draft, at maybe 120 mph. http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/2012-red-bull-jump-lavallee-maddison
And that is about it for news coverage of this spectacle event. Not like its a heavy news day around the world, but basically no one but ESPN and Ultimate Motorcycling were there and reporting about it today
Maddison kick-started the Red Bull series in 2007 by jumping his motorcycle 322 feet in Las Vegas. The following year, he jumped onto and then off the 96-foot high scale version of the Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas.
Maddison has jumped the 279-foot wide Corinth Canal in Greece, at a height of more than 300 feet above the water, and did a no-handed back flip over the open span on London’s Tower Bridge.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Before atv's became commonplace in the 1990's, some people converted their snowmobiles
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Just one of dozens of unusual snowmobiles found on Sledder Al's Vintage Snowmobiles
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
It was built by the Pullman train car company, in Illinois
and in the below full size news article (click on it for full size) it says that it was abandoned in the antarctic due to it's being so heavy (37 tons and 55 feet long) that it immediately was stuck in and ice crevass. It's longest drive was from the factory near Chicago to the shipping docks in Boston... at 55 miles and hour
found on http://www.pullman-museum.org/cgi-bin/pvm/newGetSubjects.pl?subject=The%20Snow%20Cruiserfor more snow cruiser info and the video of it being unloaded and no surprise, it was too heavy fot the unloading ramp http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/antarctic-sno-cruiser-was-driven-to.html seems no one was really thinking in terms of how a 37 ton vehicle was to get around in a world not paved in concrete
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
from http://www.flickr.com/photos/djipibi/4373984169/sizes/o/in/photostream/
from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/14/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-a-trip-in-a-bombardier/
1957 B-12 , powered by a Chrysler Industrial straight six and three speeds with lever steering column. Denis customized the invention of the legendary Joseph-Armand Bombardier, replacing the wheels of the slides in the center by maple to give the vehicle more stability in loose snow. http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/monvolant/descarries/2009/01/27/traverse-bombardier-et-mise-au-point/
Garett Walker Sledheads
I had heard about a vintage snowmobile rally in Eganville and it piqued my curiosity. With a growing interest in documenting regional cultural festivals in Canada, and as an outsider to snowmobile culture, I made my way northeast towards the Ottawa Valley. I’ve been documenting some of the lesser known Canadian cultural festivals, celebrations, and rituals of the present, attempting to construct an understanding of my own relationship to the multifarious notion of Canadian identity.
I have been documenting regional cultural events that are seldom seen outside their locales. These events are traditions that are important in building and maintaining regional communities in different places across Canada. As a country, Canada spans 9,984,670 square kilometres, making it the largest country in the western hemisphere. Its culture is as diverse as its geography, and so it is not so strange for me to feel like a foreigner inside the country I call home. This is one of the reasons why I wish to bring these activities into focus and share them with a larger public in hopes of including these hidden treasures in a larger picture of how we as Canadians view Canada.
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/visualarts/yorkquaycentreYQC09_6.cfm
Between 1945 and 1951, L’Auto-Neige Bombardier sold 2,596 vehicles. The Department of Public Works owned the majority of the B-12's up north and they were painted yellow
http://jproc.ca/rrp/chimo_photo_album.html
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