The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
After the 1977 SnoPro racing season, Jerry Bunke was on top of his game. This photo (taken by Jim Beilke) was taken at an October,
This is the standard 1977 Polaris promo picture, features a 440 twin leafer, and the race team with Don Omdahl. When they first shot this
Greg Marier took this candid photo of Jerry Bunke as the biggest year in his career was just about to start in International Falls, Minnesota,
Polaris went from three guys (David Johson, Allen Hetteen and Edgar Hetteen) tinkering in a garage all the way to being a Fortune 500 company.
For a few years in the mid to late 1970’s, International Falls, Minnesota was host to an unofficial snopro race to start the season. The
When I ordered the first print run of Starfire Kids – Midnight Blue Express, I was terrified that I would wind up with hundreds, or
Dorothy Mercer was so far ahead of her time… she wouldn’t settle for being told she could only race the women’s “Powder Puff” classes.. she
Above: Front row, David and Eleanore Johnson. Back row, Arlyn Saage, Jim Bernat, Greg Hedlund, Don Omdahl, Troy Pierce and Dan Cedola. When your race
Three great photos from Mitch Messer, all from the 1977 Alexandria Dayco Holiday Spectacular. Up against the fence is Leroy Lindblad, and it looks he
Mitch messer posted up these two photos from Alexandria in December of 1977. They contain two really cool details. In the first one, Brad Hulings
Starfire Kids Midnight Blue Express is the unauthorized and previously untold true story of the people from Roseau, Minnesota and the machines they built to find fame and fortune in the brutal, challenging, and often very dangerous sport of snowmobile racing in the 1960s and 1970s.
