Historic Hood River
Ski Daddler
9-21-2022
Notes
This image from the Crag Rats collection isn’t labeled, but it’s surrounded by 1960-1970 images by Bill Bryan.
The snowmobile is a “Ski Daddler” which was a popular model produced by AMF in the late 1960s and early 1970s. You can read all about them here. As you colorize this in your mind, paint the machines orange and you’ll probably be in the right family. Those checkered shirts– leave them black and white.
BethH
This is who I think I recognize these men to be- r to l-
Wilson Applegren, Bob Lynch, Glenn Marsh, Rob Hukari, ?maybe a Sheppard –
Rusty
Those snowmobiles with the big black strip across the nose are Ski-Doo. The Ski Daddlers had a lower profile nose, which I don't see here.
ArthurB
Rusty, thanks for the lesson. I zoomed in and you're correct the two middle machines are Ski-Doos, but the right one says “Ski Daddler” on its side. I don't know anything about snow machines, but one of the websites said something about a major body redesign mid-run on the Ski Daddlers. I can't read the logo on the leftmost machine. It has some fuzzy text against a dark background, followed by two fuzzy words against a light background.