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Found this one in a photoalbum currently listed on eBay.

Marco

http://cgi.ebay.com/RCN-WW2-Navy-Alb...item2eaaeb4f56

.... the seller thinks they are gold plated....

Bob

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra (Post 5610)

One wheel short of making a good basis for a Snowmobile replica, but it shows the stuff is out there, only an eBay-click away :)

"8x8 ARGO WEASEL AMPHIBIOS ATV GREAT SHAPE!!!"

This one is a Bombardier J-5 tractor platform with something else on top...

The armored snows had double wheels and tracks, solid tires and steel sprockets.... plus reinforced crosslinks...

I wouldn't advise trying to make one from a Muskeg or J-5... if accuracy counts.

For those who wondered about the Penguin Mark II "#8", it has been completely destroyed.

While booting around the back forest in my frankencarrier the other day I spotted some track protruding from the ground. I pulled it out with the carrier and what I have is about 14 feet of double track...most of the cross pieces rusty, some all the way through, but it is friggen heavy for a rubber/metal track. I'll get some pictures this weekend and look around for more parts...

sadly, i was talking to a fellow here in Quebec not long ago who said he came across an armoured snomo a few years earlier. The owner had died and his elderly widow would sell but wanted too high a price...It ended up scrapped...

Meanwhile Convoy Mag number 28 has a couple of photos of military snomachines including a Penguin awaiting restoration at Calnan`s
and Convoy 29 has a feature of sorts on Penguins including one found at a farm auction our western Canada...no idea what became of it.

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra (Post 26)

For those of you who want to take up the challenge, read more about this intriguing vehicle on my Canadian Armoured Snowmobile web page.

I have brought back my Geocities website from oblivion and hosted it on my own domain: www.mapleleafup.nl/t16carrier

HTH,
Hanno

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra (Post 70238)

More pics of the survivor in Rome

...can be found on: Don Allen's / 8Hussar's Photobucket

Oh Man! Would it ever be fun to have an Armoured Snowmobile in Winnipeg tonight!!! :rolleyes

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Originally Posted by Gordon

The challenge for 2003 then is to come up with a genuine surviving.........

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra (Post 4099)

While talking to our Scottish MLUppers at Beltring this year, Nigel mentioned he saw a tracked vehicle the other day in Scotland with the same track layout as the Armoured Snowmobile. Gordon mentioned he knows the type of vehicle as the Pontiac - or rather - Bombardier Muskeg.

I did a quick search on the internet and came up with the following details from a 1959 FAO publication (see below). Now, I wonder if the Muskeg was actually based on the Armoured Snowmobile design? This could mean that a replica Snomo could be built on a Muskeg chassis....

"Bombardier Muskeg Tractor - Model H. D. W.
Specifications: Overall length, 15 ft. 3 in. (4.6 m.): width, 7 ft. 3 in. (2.2 m.); height, 7 ft. 4 in. (2.2 m.); platform length 10 ft. (3 m.). Max. speed 16 mph (25.7 km/h); payload capacity (max.) 6,000 lb. (2,720 kg.); turning radius 15 ft. (4.6 m.). Chrysler engine 6 cylinders; brake horse power 115 at 3,400 rpm. Track type-rubber belts with steel cross links. Track width 28 in. (71 cm.). Control - hydraulic through cylinders. Winch 3 speeds fwd, 1 rev.; control - inside operator's cab powered through transfer ease. Cable drum 9 in. (23 cm.) diameter by 131/2 in. (34 cm.) long. Cable drum flange 151/2 in. (39 cm.).
Bombardier Snowmobile Limited, Valcourt, Quebec, Canada."

OK, too late for the 2003 Challenge, but here are 2 Muskeg Tractors, a 50's version with a Chrysler Flathead 6, and a Diesel engined version from the 70's. For those who don't know this part of Australia, Agnes Waters is probably the LAST place you would need a Snowmobile, and it looks like these have been used on the beach.

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/agne...egs/1277087028

Down under Muskegs

Nice looking machines, they can show up anywhere in the world ! Bombardier went to large wheel axles in 1960, the dust caps are about 3" in the round on a large axle wheels. The side rail design changed ( strengthened) as they improved in the late 60's. The serial tag if missing off the dash or back wall behind the driver is also stamped on the right front bumper.
Bombardier fever is a lot like Green fever, it's addictive. The pic is of one of my Muskegs, a 1972 with a 318 dodge motor .
K Armitage

Bombardier fever

I grew up in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and did my first and second parachute jumps at the little dropzone in Valcourt, home of Bombardier. Most of the municipal works departments had small enclosed cab sidewalk plows for snow removal. The arched roof and side rail designs were common sights. I sincerely doubt any were wartime vintage, but it shows that Bombardier kept a few good design elements for many years.

I have a Bombardier. Anyone else on the forum have one?

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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades (Post 281023)

I have a Bombardier. Anyone else on the forum have one?

You have a Skidoo with an identity crisis.

Yes Terry. Old mans bike according to my oldest (38) son. :giveup

Muskeg operators and spare parts manual up for grabs:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Mapl...8884405723244/