This series commemorates my 50+ years of snowmobiling and the 20 snowmobiles my family and I had fun on during that time. In 1967, our family started snowmobiling in Syracuse, New York. Back then we would ride on Oneida Lake, or any field we could get permission to ride on. A special thanks to Mark & Glenn for helping me with this series.
This sled was our 4th, after selling the Hustler. We still had the trusty Bolens Diablo Rouge 502 at the same time. The Mustang had a 372cc JLO engine producing an arm-stretching 23 horsepower. This was our first “name brand” sled and first machine with over 20 horsepower! We purchased it used, but new they sold for about $1,100 in 1968, which equates to almost $8,000 in 2020 money! I was young at the time, but I do remember my seat-of-the-pants impression of that it was little more gutsier than the previous sleds we owned that were produced by farm equipment companies. My older brother took advantage of that extra power to pull me faster than I considered safe on the toboggan! This was the last snowmobile purchased for a few years. We moved to Michigan in late 1970 and had a few crappy winters (compared to Upstate NY) so my Dad sold the sleds. For a couple of years, we would rent Johnson "Golden Ghost" sleds from D & B Marine in St. Helen, Michigan, which later became St. Helen Powersports.
Congratulations to Bandit35757 on the FTF!