DAVID'S VINTAGE
SNOWMOBILE PAGE.
RESTORING
THE SPORT ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
PAGE 18,541
1975
AUTO SKI SPITFIRE
MAY
13 - 2014
HI
DAVID- YUP IT'S A 1975 AUTO SKI SPITFIRE.
#
4 WAS MADE IN JULY OF 1974.
I
GOT THIS SLED OUT OF NEW YORK STATE ABOUT 3 - 4 YEARS AGO.
IT
WAS ON THE VINTAGE SITE FOR AWHILE AND NO ONE SNAPPED IT UP.
IT
ORIGINALLY HAD A 440 KOHLER AX FAN BUT I REBUILT A 440 KOHLER AS FAN FOR
IT.
IT
SHOULD RUN PRETTY GOOD WHEN I'M DONE WITH IT.
1975
AUTO SKI SLEDS ARE SOME OF THE COOLEST AND RAREST SLEDS TO COME OUT OF
CANADA.
HAVE
A GOOD ONE. GREG MORRIS
GREG WILL SEND
IN MORE PICTURES WHEN THE SLEDS ARE RESTORED.
THIS PICTURE IS
OF A ( 1974
) AUTO SKI SPITFIRE 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 !
