August 26, 2007

Old Sno*Jet Movies...What fun and glory!

This is huge. The movie is 10 minutes and 180 Megs!!!! So you need to be patient for the buffering to act to allow uninterrupted viewing. My advice to avoid boredom: go somewhere else in this page while this loads up in the background. The first part is a Sno*Jet commercial from 1972. The second part is testing the racing sleds in Burlington VT test track. The third is the "glory movie" the year when our beloved Thunder Jets beat everything in sight, including Bombardier and Arctic Cat factory teams. Jim Adema and his wife Pat once won first place in every single racing events, something like 12-15, in one weekend. It's also nice to twice see the great Yvon Duhamel of Bombardier beaten soundly. Those were good old days. Sad to think that Jim died on the race track 4-5 years later while racing for Kawasaki after they had bought SnoJet. At that time I was working in Finland designing urethane injected cross-country skis.I'll do a blog on Jim later.




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