My uncle bought a 1968 18HP Olympic, which his two teenage daughters soon lost interest in for want of other persurers. Thye live in a swanky section of town and our yard bordered on on field from whence one could get to a power line and go for miles and miles.

He parked it in our yard and all I had to do was come up with money for gas and repairs. After two winters, I could take that machine completely apart and put it back together.

I looked at one of the new Ski-doos on display in a grocery store just the other day. Sweet gentle jeepers! The Bombardier engineers that design their jets must have been told by management to to build a Ski-doo suspension and drive system that only well trained aerospace mechanics could work on with custom turned tools!

Of course, I did notice that the carburetion system won't try to suck yer nuts into the engine. So, there are pluses to the advancement of the design.