General Information

Serial #

3408-00360

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Unknown

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

238.0 cm

Width

96.5 cm

Height

132.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

184.2

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Motorized Ground Transportation

Category

Recreational vehicles

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Bombardier

Country

Canada

State/Province

Québec

City

Valcourt

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Not used.

Canada

"In August of 1973, the one millionth Ski-Doo rolled off the assembly lines at the Bombardier plant in Valcourt. Management and staff at Alpine Distributors, along with local dealers and snowmobile racing champions, gathered at a reception at Alpine and, along with over a dozen distributorships across Canada and the U.S. listened in on a telephone conference from Valcourt. At Alpine, the call was amplified through a public address system and those present heard federal politicians and Bombardier president, Laurent Beaudoin, toast the production of the millionth Ski-Doo. A stretched track 1974 T'NT Everest model, the one millionth, was presented to Mrs. Yvonne Bombardier, widow of the inventor, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, for display in the J.A. Bombardier Museum in Valcourt. The one millionth and one machine was presented to the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa. The one millionth and two machine was set aside for Bombardier president, Laurent Beaudoin, and the one millionth and third machine was sent out to Alpine Distributors in Vernon." (ref.2)

Function

For travel over snow. For commemoration purposes.

Technical

"In addition to special promotional feats, there were opportunities to promote Ski-Doos by entering them into snowmobile races, which were gaining popularity in the 1960s. There was a lot of media coverage to be captured by a good showing at any one of the bigger contests, such as the World's Championship Snowmobile Derby at Eagle River in Wisconsin. In 1968, Bombardier scored some victories on this front after it introduced the vertical-twin Rotax 600 cc, the first engine its Austrian engine supplier had designed expressly for the Ski-Doo. The Ski-Doo model containing this engine was called the Track N' Trail (or TN'T) because it was designed to compete on the racetrack and be a hot performer on the trail." (ref.3) "A prototype Everest was tested on Silver Star Mountain and on Hunter's Range above Enderby. Because the Everest was designed to climb in powder and scale backcountry terrain, it was outfitted with a wide 16.5-inch track and provided 907.5 square inches of flotation. The chassis and track measured five inches longer than the standard T'NT models. The Everest track was not just wider, but replaced the traditional steel reinforcing rods with lighter, more flexible fiberglass rods. Steel was replaced with aluminum for the tunnel, though there was a steel reinforced bulkhead to hold the engine and ski mounts." (ref.2)

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

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Missing

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Finish

Unknown

Decoration

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