DAVID'S VINTAGE
SNOWMOBILE PAGE.
RESTORING
THE SPORT ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
PAGE 18,528
MAY
8 - 2014
1975
AUTO SKI SS 400
DAVID
- AARON ZEOLI TIPPED ME OFF TO THIS ONE IN SOUTHERN OHIO LAST OCTOBER.
THIS ONE IS # 7.
I
HAVE HAD # 6 SINCE 1985 WHEN I SAW IT IN A SNOWMOBILE SALVAGE IN MT PLEASANT,
MI.
#
7 HAS THE WHEELED SUSPENSION AND A RUBBER TRACK.
#
6 CAME WITH THE SLIDE SUSPENSION AND CLEATED TRACK LIKE THE MACH.
ONE
WILL BE RESTORED FOR SHOWS AND ONE WILL BE A RIDER IN THE FLEET.
I'VE
NEVER SEEN ANY OTHER AUTO SKI SS 400 SLEDS OTHER THAN THESE 2. THANKS.
GREG MORRIS
1975
AUTO SKI SS 400 - ABOVE
GREG WILL SEND
IN MORE PICTURES WHEN THE SLEDS ARE RESTORED.
THIS PICTURE IS
OF A ( 1974
) AUTO SKI SS FREE AIR FROM THE 1974 AUTO
SKI BROCHURE.
I AM SHOWING
YOU THIS PICTURE SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE WAS LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THE 1974
AND 1975 AUTO SKI MODELS. HERE'S
WHY. READ BELOW WHAT DAVE TAYLOR SAYS.
DAVE TAYLOR WRITES
ABOUT PRO AM AND AUTO SKI WHICH WERE BASACIALLY THE SAME COMPANY..........
THE SAME RULES
APPLY TO AUTO SKI AND PRO AM FOR THE 1975 MODELS.
PRO AM SNOWMOBILE
HISTORY
BY DAVE TAYLOR.
Hi David
The
Pro Am lineup of Snowmobiles
were
produced for the 1974 model year only.
The
1975 PRO AM were put together with surplus inventory.
We
were an Auto Ski Dealer,
but sold a bunch of Pro Am Bikes and only a couple Pro Am Sleds.
For
the 1975 model it was a free for all / pretty well anybody with cash could
buy at the plant in Levis.
For
the 1975 model, you could have them with CCW and even Yamaha engines as
Auto Ski was
trading
excess inventory with Gilles Soucy for engines.
The
1974 Pro Am snowmobiles were identical to the regular Auto Ski
but
with a white cab with the red decals.
Auto
Ski had 10 models, Pro AM 8 MODELS.
It
was indended to increase market share buy offering a second franchise,
this
was not a product offered to Auto Ski dealers but new dealerships.
Like
the majority of the manufactures it was a last effort to increase sales
and penetration.
Dave
Taylor
THANKS
GREG FOR THE GREAT PICTURES !
