In the heady days of the 1960s sexual revolution, “swinging” was a code word for wife-swapping among partners. Accordingly, Swinger made an attention-grabbing name for the all-new mini-sled introduced by ...

Conceived by engineer and racecar driver Francois Favreau, the Buzz snowmobile was introduced by Autotechnic Inc., of Montreal, Quebec, for the 1970 snow season. Built in St.-Pie-de-Bagot, Quebec, the Buzz ...

With apologies to country music star Alan Jackson, did you ever consider buying yourself a Mercury and cruising up and down the trail? Mercury snowmobiles had a certain allure, and ...

The locals in the small mountain hamlet of Storsjo, Sweden, still talk about Rolle Sjogren’s great snowmobile adventure in 2001 when he set out from his mountain cabin, drove into ...

Detroit native Bob Bracey was an automotive engineer who had worked for each of the American Big Three automakers and for the company that built Ford’s successful GT-40 racecar. Bracey ...

The pale light of the early morning sun illuminated the new machine on the full-page color brochure photo. The message was unmistakable. The 1976 Ski-Doo T’NT RV was the beginning ...

Felix Wankel was first granted patents on the radically unique combustion engine in 1954. The German engineer’s new engine was considered by many to be the powerplant of the future, ...

Despite slumping sales during the early 1970s, Sno*Jet tore into the 1975 model year with three SST models redesigned from the track up. The ‘75 SST F/A 440 clearly was ...

They grew up tough. Les Industries Bouchard began manufacturing Moto-Ski snowmobiles in 1962, and the orange machines from the south bank of the St. Lawrence River earned a reputation for ...

“Snowmobiles used to be pretty much the same … then came Skiroule.” That line from the 1972 Skiroule sales brochure was no product puffery dreamed up by some advertising agency. ...