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Old 03-12-2013, 10:19 PM   #1
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The Great Evinrude Adventure!

This isn't a build thread for a car, but i thought it was appropriate in this section anyway. In October of 2012 I became the proud owner of a 1973 Evinrude RC-35-Q rotary engine snowmobile! I found it on kijiji and after a 18 hour road trip it was all mine! It was all complete and with only 1300 miles on the odo it was in near mint shape for a snowmobile. Work began right away on it getting it ready for the coming winter season. I started by looking over the whole sled and taking stock of what I had. I found out I had actually stumbled onto a bit of a rare sled. There were 150 engines made in the very first production run and 100 demonstrator sleds were built with those engines for the 1972 winter. My sled was built in 02/72 and the serial number on the engine is #150! The very last engine built on that first production run! Here's a link to a very detailed page about the production of the sled.
http://vintageomc.webs.com/theomcproduction.htm
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