The Old El Tigre

Back in December - with the lack

of snow, I encouraged Hubby to pull the

old Arctic Cat El Tigre out of storage

and get it running again.

Here it is ~ covered and stored (pretty dusty,

dirty and covered with some bird poop) ~ the

cover did a good job but is now brittle and

will be trash.

There is some fading - some rust but overall

the old sled is in pretty good shape.

Dirty.... Grandpa Carl took a look ~ he worked

on all kinds of Arctic Cat sleds over the years.

One good thing is that the seat is in great

condition ~ some cleaning and adjustments

to the inside foam and the seat is perfect!

This sled is a 1976 El Tigre and is one of the

sleds that hubby used when he was younger.

From storage straight into the car wash.

A few nights and days of tinkering and lots

of cleaning .... and a list

of things to buy or upgrade (some for the Hay

Days event next fall)

Back to life ~ a little bit over a month

later and he had it running!

Maybe sometime we will take in an

old sled event.