Vintage Snowmobile Show - Blacksmith Lounge Hugo Minnesota

This video contains vintage classic snowmobiles at the Blacksmith Lounge in Hugo Minnesota during the Stillwater Snowmobile Club event "The Older The Better Vintage Sled Show" held on February 4th, 2023.

This video contains vintage snowmobiles including, but not limited to the following makes of snowmobiles:
Ski-Doo, Yamaha, Polaris, Artic Cat, Rupp, John Deere, Scorpion, Skiroule, Chaparral, Evinrude, Moto-Ski, Boa-Ski, Skee Horse, and Johnson

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[wyomingadventures]

Awesome vintage snowmobiles. Lots of memories looking at this video.

[vandle_chandle]

AWESOME, THANK YOU!
Growing up thru the 70s my best friends parent started out selling Rupps snowmobile. In the mid 70s switched to Cat's! So every year I got to ride brand new el'tigre'z, jag, lynx, trail cats! My father had a 72 panther, mother a 71 lynx. 77 dad got a new Pantera which made the winter of 77 here in Pennsylvania the BOMB!!! Dad switch to polaris in the 80s but I remained deadicated to ARCTIC CAT! And in 2009 I brought my first 05 Sabercat. Then in '11 bought a brand new F8. Which i absolutely still LOVE! Winters here in PA suck to sY the least. I travel to NY & western Pa to ride. Dream Vintage sled 78 el'tigre! Might be left to fantasize of 2027 CAT!
Nothing is more fun then snow and the smell of 2 stroke in the morning!!!

[davidsedorejr]

I had a 1974 golden ghost Johnson, my brother has it now in immaculate condition in original condition. No cracks and nothing looking for a gasket for it God bless you and your family. God bless the world it’s all just get along.

[lyndseymarieburke]

I love the old machines and Grew up with them, there use to be so many of them,

[CzzBzz]

Been down in Texas for 40 years, but back in the [Iowa] day. My family had a Scorpion Range Whip and a AC Panther. I believe the snow line has moved north like Minn or Wiscy. The lakes don`t freeze over like they use too. Someday snowbirds will just head to the south side of I-80 to over winter LOL.

[kevinandres]

You done a excellent job of showing all the sleds. Good work my Rupp friend!!!!

[ajm]

This was awesome! Thank you for this video! Hello from Saint Clair Shores, Michigan!

[brianlundsr]

That Evinrude @ 42:01 is a beautiful machine!

[johnpatterson]

Some serious vintage snowmobile porn in this video. I have seen every one of these glorious golden-age sleds operating back-in-the-day, and I have driven/ridden most of them. The Johnson/Evinrude sleds are very cool to me as they were built at the Outboard Marine plant where I lived in Canada. At around 24:26 I see a '71 Ski-Doo Olympique (all yellow hood). It brought a few tears to my eyes as that machine was the one my father had, what wonderful times those were. I recall the '71 Olympique had a fixed seat-back with a spring-loaded compartment large enough for a small tool kit and a one gallon gas can. Three kids (sometimes three larger kids) could ride on that bad boy at the same time and it would still tow a wooden toboggan. It's missing the 335 emblem on the cowling. I used that metal bar fixed at the front to pull it out of many a snowdrift. Thank you for the video Mr. Mundo.

[brianlackie]

I used to ride those old Ski-Doos like that when I was a kid in the 80s I remember the old egg-shaped hoods in the pull the lever to flip out the headlights in the black Carbon on my snowmobile suit they were old then. There was the old Yamaha Sno jet we had an old Rupp. Those old sleds are very familiar to me even the Arctic Cat Krueger but this was back in the 80s when the Yamaha exciters the SRX was in the market we probably had a couple of the Scorpions they were old by the time I got my hands on them as a kid remember the egg shape hoods but Yamaha was making some pretty nice sleds and I eventually got.350 Enticer my neighbor who was older got his hands on Yamaha SRX and 440 Exciter

[hboozel]

I STILL own a 1981 Arctic Cat El tigre 6000 and I do agree it has the cooler front end. Thanks for this.

[souleater]

Had a 76 Scorpion sting 440.sweet machine. first 440, i had.miss that machine.

[austinado]

Great job on this! You took your time and held the camera steady!! I think that machine you couldn't identify is a Polaris "Colt" but that's just a guess. I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska '64-'74 and we were a Polaris family. Our first snowmachine was a Colt like that. We also had one of those early Ski Doo Olympics with the engine and carburetor opening right up against the rider. Horrible design, because the carburetor would suck your snow suit into the intake opening, and one minute you'd be riding along, and the next minute the engine would start to die for no reason, and of course be flooding out when it did finally then the machine was very difficult to restart. We got rid of the Ski Doo and the old colt, got a more modern Colt (the one with twin headlights) and of course my dad was a prolific racer on eveything TX and Startfire, and even the Indy's. He wore those machines like a glove, and our house was packed full of his trophies.

[brianlackie]

I used to have the old Rupp and Evinrude old 60s Ski-Doo this was in the 80s they were old then as I got a little bit older I had a Yamaha Enticer when I never had a 440 Exciter SRX which was water cooled at the time it was Hi-Tech badass machine

[Rokonroller]

Yup yup you betcha! Yeah you betcha ya ya

[DL-djjo]

Nice !! That 1978 440 was a Exciter. Not an enticer. I had one. Great memories and sled !!! Beat 6000 eltigres. Polaris. John Deeres. Ski Doos. Unbeatable really. Twin single card. Fan cooled.

[stevenbrown]

I live in Maine on the coast. We had snowmobiles when I was a kid in the late 60s and 70s had lots of fun now we don’t get enough snow to ride one hardly ever

[IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Growing up my bro had a sm292f Yamaha, a 340 spitfire John Deere, a 440 exciter, and my favorite a twin carb twin pipe moto ski super Sonic.

[zsergvgarage]

Очень приятно видеть технику с которой брали основу

[brianlackie]

I experienced a lot of those old sleds as a young kid like the old Chaparral the Rupp snow jet the Evinrude they were old to me and I was born in 1976 and this was in the 80s what does old slides for still running back then I remember them because I used to ride them in northern Michigan