pegasus 2

This is pegasus 2 it was built cause the first one had speed wables and was not save to race. this one raced at the salt flats with all the other race sleds and reached speeds of 140mph.

Rupp super sno sport

This is the rupp super sno sport it was the only one made of its kind. it had two tracks and a fuil injected 308 ford engine. it puts out 525 horsepower. It was drove by mickey rupp himself but was built by jim head.

Inferno

This was made by ski doo and had two 797cc free air triple engines and reached speeds of 140mph. but the odd time it would blow off tracks at 100 mph. it had front and rear axels and two tracks. It was the last factory sponsered sled made by ski- doo.

Bud Sno King

This is the bud sno king it was designed for racing it has 4 750 cc v-max engines and is pushing around 650 horsepower. It was 16 feet long 5 feet wide and 1500 pounds. It also had a racing powreglide transmission.

Pegasus

This is called the pegasus it was also designed to be a race snowmobile. It was made by johnson. It was not raced at the track because at high speeds it was unstable and not safe. So they went back to building a different design that was safe to race.

This is the boss cat its made by artic cat and was designed around the same time as the big al as compatition. it reached speeds of 130 km an hour which is pretty fast for a snowmobile.Unlike the big al this snowmobile did reach the track. There where also several models made of it.

Big Al / Alouette

This snowmobile was called the big al it was made by alouette. it was meant to be a drag sled but it never got to the track. it has been said that it would reach speeds of 300 km an hour and it was made in 1971.

Merc Sno Twister

My blog is about vintage race snowmobiles. my favorite thing to do is to drive snowmobiles but my dad has got me into the vintage race sleds. my dad has a 340 merc that he has modified and use to race he gave up racing when he blew up the engine trying to mod it more. It has now been ten years since then and all that time of me staring at his trophies wishing i could race he has finnaly but the sled back together and im looking forward to driving it this year.If you are looking to buy some vintage sleds like my dads go to http://www.vintagesleds.com/classifieds/.

This is a picture of a vintage factory race sled called a rupp nitro they were known for racing and looking good along with mercs, alouette, ski-doo.