The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
At the end of the very successful 1977 racing season, the newly christened ‘Midnight Blue Express’ was charged with the task of building a production
One of Jerry’s best weekends in 1977 happened in Peterborough Ontario. In this very rare video, Jerry is filmed winning the 250 and 440 Super
I’ve often heard of the Polaris cross-country race trailer, but I had never seen it, nor seen a picture of it. Thanks to Facebook, I
Happy Thanksgiving – and I have a lot to be thankful for. Finding more and more 1977 photos is way up on that list! Enjoy!
Just found these photos on the old ‘interwebz over the last couple of days. I believe they are both from Bill Cudney. The top one
The life of David Eli Johnson was celebrated in his hometown of Roseau Minnesota this past weekend. The high school auditorium was packed with family,
The first race of the first ever big time professional snowmobile racing scene called “Sno-Pro” started in Ironwood Michigan in December of 1973. The press
This is a very rare photo… in 1974, Burt Bassett, Leroy Lindblad and Wes Pesek won the I-500 in Sault St. Marie Michigan. There are
Jim Bernat’s official induction into the Snowmobile Hall of Fame was in 1991. This is the official Hall of Fame information.
The press was fascinated with Dorothy Mercer, putting her in countless newspaper and magazine articles and often interviewing her for television. It was a good
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.
