This story was submitted by Vern Harrison – thanks for sharing Vern!
I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and I found this sled in a garage in our beautiful city. I worked with a guy, and we got to talking about old sleds and I mentioned the ones I had old at the farm near Quill Lake, Saskatchewan.
This was about seven years ago. He then told me about the one in his dads garage. It was a 1972 Chaparral that his dad had won in a cigarette contest years ago. He said his dad never drove it he he had taken it for a ride when he was in grade 11, about 1974. His first time on a snow machine, went over an approach pretty fast, scared the crap out of himself, and put the sled back in the garage, and it never seen daylight again.
Last fall he asked me if I was interested in the sled because the garage was falling down and he had no place for it. I gladly bought it and this is what it looks like, after giving it a good wash. It has no more than 10 miles on it, runs good, after changing the brittle gas lines, looks like new with hardly a mark on it.
I thought some of the viewers might be interested. Out at Quill Lake I have a 1968 snowcruiser, 1968 ski-doo, 1970 wheel horse, and a 1974 JDX4 special. I have ridden them all and they are fun to drive.