I couldn't find the snowmobile
catagory, so I guess it will just have
to go under "other", but it was made from a '29 Roadster. My sever-year
project was a '29 Model A snowmobile that has been in the family since
1947
(Click
for picture).
My dad and uncle bought it from a mailman in Walker, MN. We used it
mainly in the winter months out on a frozen lake pulling my brothers
and cousins behind on skis and sleds with long ropes. It was also used
to pull the spearhouse off the lake. Summer use was very limited due to
the tracks that would tear up the road, but as soon as deer season came
around, it was put into use pulling out deer hunters who got stuck back
in the woods as well as hauling out a deer or two. After all the abuse
we gave it through the forties to the sixties, it finally quit. It sat
for twenty years until I got the bright idea to restore it. Being a
school teacher, summers were the only time I could really give it my
full attention. After seven summers, I declared it finished. It takes a
trophy when I bring it to a car show, and it has seen two years in a
museum. My time restoring it has been quality time, because while I
worked on it, memories of close family times would always drift through
my endeavors. Larry Johnson
lbj-pj@astound.net
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