7th ANNUAL VINTAGE ROUND-UP
WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA
MARCH 13TH, 2010
Well folks all I can say is Wow! Unbelievable! Thank you so very much!!
Thanks
to each and every one of you for making this year’s West Yellowstone Vintage
Snowmobile Round-up
another overwhelming success!!! We began our weekend with an outstanding Friday
messing around while
getting the old iron out and running at our parking area. And then throw in a
great meet and greet, and it just got
better from there! Each
year the participants in this exciting event never cease to amaze everyone as
they assemble
some of the most
incredibly beautiful antique and vintage snowmobiles on the planet. And
this year was no exception!!!
From the unbelievable
Arctic Cat Twin Tracker sitting center stage to the ultra rare Honda White Fox,
this show delivered!
Delivered 70 sleds from 7 states! Wow! Although everyone involved deserves special recognition for their
efforts,
unfortunately only a few can be recognized with
a class award. Congratulations too you all!
Each
and every time we have been in West Yellowstone for our annual gathering, we
have worked with the local
chapter of
Big Brothers and Big Sisters helping to raise funds for their program. Over the
years their director
Alysia Downs,
has become one of our strongest advocates and with the help of her and the kids;
we gathered
almost 1,200 votes
for the class awards at this year’s show! We probably could’ve cast more but we
ran out of ballots!
These kids were awesome! And here’s why: As folks entered the show they would
pleasantly greet them and ask for
their vote.
The kids would politely give out a small pencil with a ballot and in many cases,
collect the ballots. With Alysia’s
guidance,
we enjoyed helping some of the little ones ramp up their courage in approaching
a total stranger and asking for
their participation.
It was truly a pleasure to witness these kids experience a huge step
forward in their development of
social skills such as this!
Thank you Alysia! And thank you kids!!
The Big Winners at this year’s show were a couple of sophomore participants.
Best of show was awarded to Larry Grooms with his fabulous ‘’71 440 Rupp Magnum W/T
And People’s Choice went to Clayton and Joyce Busch with their beautiful 1960 Polaris Sno- Traveler
Nice sleds guys!
Big winners in the raffles were:
The Dyess Family (Pinedale, WY) won the sweet little 1973 Colt 295
Paul Tate ( Roy, UT) won the framed Polaris 50th Anniversary Poster
and Cindy Smith (Bend, OR) won the 10x10 E-Z up!
Countless others won a host of prizes at our Saturday banquet so we hope
everyone took home something
special from
the show! Our proceeds totaled just over $2,000!! At our Sunday breakfast
meeting we decided to double
our last year’s donation
of $500 to Big Brother and Big Sisters and have already sent a check for
$1,000 to help the kids
with rest of
this year’s expenses.
Unbelievable!! We can’t express how privileged we all feel by creating something
this great
from a simple hobby from which we all
share such great passion. Thank you again too you all for your help with this
very special
mission and, congratulations to all the
weekend’s participants. In our eyes everyone involved is considered a true
champion of the
sport!!! We’ll be looking forward to
seeing you at the 2011 Vintage Round-up which without question, will be better
than ever!!
Sincerely,
Perry Hesteness
President - WSVSA
The show stopper this year
was this
very, very rare
1976 Arctic Cat twin track sled
The Sherbine Family Starfire Dedication
You can catch up with the story by following this link provided below.
http://vintagesleds.com/bs/index.php/topic,40062.0.html
74 Honda White Fox
The RXL's
My maiden voyage on my RXL. Had to tow it to
the line up but it started
several hours later, so I took in for a spin.
All Aluminum Ski Daddler
Our Friends from Minnesota
More Vintage Sleds
Some of the GUYS !!
The interviews and vintage drive by in front of the grandstands
RACE RESTORED RACE UNRESTORED
1st Jerry Kienbaum
76 AC Twin Track
1st Ron Ebbers
72 Ski Daddler
2nd Les Jacobsen
72 Polaris Starfire
2nd Ken Jacobsen
78 Polaris RXL
3rd Jim Smith
78 Polaris RXL
3rd Perry Hesteness 76 AC
Z
ANTIQUE RESTORED FEATURED 1970
1st Elroy Gambart
64 Polaris Comet
1st Craig Ginder
70 Massey Ski Whiz
2nd Elroy Gambart
65 Polaris Lil' Andy
2nd Willie Ruchert
70 AC Panther
3rd Debbie Ginder
67 Larsen Eagle
3rd Perry Hesteness
70 AC Puma Mod
VINTAGE 69-74 RESTORED
VINTAGE 69-74 UNRESTORED
1st Clayton &
Joyce Bucsh 72 Ski Doo TNT
1st Jerry Swanson
74 Honda White Fox
2nd David Brummer
72 AC Cheetah
2nd Colton Busch
72 AC Kitty Cat
3rd Larry Grooms
69 Rupp GT
3rd Willie Ruchert
74 Raider Double Eagle
VINTAGE 75-79 RESTORED VINTAGE 75-79 UNRESTORED
1st Craig
Ginder 75 Yamaha GPX
1st Brian Clark
76 Polaris
2nd Paul Tate
77 Polaris TX
2nd Billy Ruchert
75 AC Cheetah
3rd Curtis Tate
77 Polaris Colt S/S
3rd Mike Dolan
79 Yamaha Enticer
NEW VINTAGE 80-85
1st
Tony Crnkovich 83 Yamaha Phazer
2nd Paul Tate
81 John Deere Trail Fire
3rd Allen Emme
83 John Deere Sprint Fire
"BEST OF SHOW" LARRY GROOMS 71 RUPP MAGNUM
"PEOPLES CHOICE" CLAYTON & JOYCE BUSCH 60 POLARIS SNOW TRAVELER TRAILMASTER
"CONGRATULATIONS"
to Mr. & Mrs. Clark Dyess !! The winners of the 1973 Polaris Colt.
Special thanks goes out to Lonny Custer for the donation of the
sled
and a to Paul and Curtis Tate for getting the sled cleaned up and ready to
ride!!
OUR SHOW SPONSOR !!!!
