Kawasaki guys keep telling me they wish they had an Interceptor (the sled on the cover photo) so I did a little reading. Quite the sled: Liquid cooled engine with twin pipes and four spark plugs. Kawasaki made exactly 601 of these sleds, only for the 1982 model year, which makes them pretty spendy to acquire now. In fact, if you ever see one…Read More

Loved the black Elan.

Just a little TLC and she’ll run like new!

Had the Johnson version. Tough machine and it fit three of us on it but it was pretty tired and top speed was just over 15 mph. I’ll agree with the 60 pounds lighter claim. My dad had a 67 and I swear it had to go 600 lbs. It would pull his aluminum beaver trapping boat through the woods and across dry land, no problem.

Can’t say I have ever seen one of those, buddy of mine had a Suzuki 440 Fury

My first snowmobile was a 1973 Suzuki XR440. fan cooled twin carb, motor was close to the handlebars & that fan blew the warm but albeit 2 stroke smell on you. Was never cold even on the most brutal cold days. Loved that sled, bought it with my own money at 16 years old in 1977 & put thousands of miles on it in the 4 years I owned it. Good times,…Read More