"Nothing runs like a Deere." The great slogan is considered a marketing classic. I assumed the slogan was meant to sell John Deere tractors, but it was created in 1972 for the company's new snowmobile ...
The 1972 Viking snowmobile Art Seydel had on display Saturday in East Grand Forks wasn't the oldest sled in the fifth Anna Kozel Vintage Sled Show, but it might have been the prettiest. With its ...
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. -- Merlyn Werner once drove five days and nearly 2,800 miles -- 2,794, to be exact -- to buy a rare snowmobile he tracked down in Quebec. The snowmobile was a 1971 Rapido 500 ...
MELROSE (AP) -- Ed Petermeier loves his massive 1964 Arctic Cat snowmobile, with its blocky stance and fat aluminum skis. No amount of snow can stop it. "I never kept stuck with that," he said, ...
WACONIA, Minn. (WCCO --At certain times of the year, you will see groups of hot rods cruising down the boulevard. But a lot of Minnesotans enjoy a different type of vintage vehicle. They're into the ...
DeVere Chapman of Newfolden, Minn., sits on the restored 1966 Polaris Colt racer, the first Colt to roll off the assembly line, Saturday, Feb. 1, during the Ninth Annual AK Vintage Snowmobile Show in ...
They may not be as pretty or go as fast as their younger counterparts, but vintage sled heads love their old machines. Count Jim Saurdiff among them. Known as Doc Jim in the vintage snowmobile world, ...
In the ’60s and ’70s, snowmobiles were pretty rudimentary machines, with single-cylinder engines and simple, accessible engine blocks that were easy to work on, if not the most reliable. For ...
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WILLMAR -- In the early 1990's, Harlan Rohner could have been seen as a visionary. He opened the first-ever snowmobile museum, located south of Willmar. People flocked to see the sleds, at first. But ...
Gilmore Car Museum provides for a day of outdoor family fun in Michigan’s winter weather, plus full access to the museum’s remarkable indoor collection of more than 400 classic vehicles. Access to the ...
LUXEMBURG - With the temperatures starting to get lower and lower, people may be thinking about snow, and snowmobiling.One area dealer is celebrating 50 years in the business, by putting on a display ...