When Chuck Schunemon of Danbury, Wis., discovered his ’71 Polaris, it was a heap of rust on a farm and in the back of a dump truck destined for the landfill. “It wasn’t worth the scrap,” said ...
Out in Churchville, Jeff Goole has a serious addiction to snowmobiles. During his lifetime he has owned and sold over 4000 of them. When he was a child he was introduced them at the end of the golden ...
Dan Bishop got into vintage snowmobiles 15 years ago when he was driving down West Tischer Road and saw one in a yard, a 1970 Polaris TX Playmate. "I drove one as a kid," he said. So he stopped to ...
We all have our allegiances: Coke or Pepsi, Big Mac or Whopper, Chevy or Ford, Vikings or Packers. The list could go on. A friendship between two area snowmobilers that has spanned the last five ...
We're no strangers to snowmobiling around these parts. The annual DL Vintage Snowmobile Rally and Swap meet has been going strong for decades, this year being its 20th anniversary. Just north of 200 ...
NEWFOLDEN, Minn. -- The way collections always do, it started with just one. For DeVere Chapman, 75; his son, Shane, 48; and Shane’s son, Nick, 19, of Newfolden, that collection is vintage snowmobiles ...
Those snowmobiles zipping down trails and across lakes nowadays are sleek, fast, refined examples of today’s complex engineering and pictures of reliability with price tags exceeding $10,000. But ...