great sled great times they went by so fast

Is that James Earl Jones . ?

Awesome 👌 if it's not a cat it's just cat food

What’s the CCs on the green and black Z looking sled?

Best looking sleds.

68 yrs old and still have a cat ZL ss 800 2002 . I wish I could find a 74 Z that I had after my 73 440 El Tigre

1979 hood with 1980s graphics

By 1978 I was Running Kawasaki Invaders. Dad being a Cat, Kawasaki, Yamha and John Deere Dealer. It was hard to pick a Brand each year.

For the 1978 model year Brochure, Dad submitted a Still photo of me in Yellowstone. As the Moon was just above my head. With my arms stretch out above me. It looked as though I was holding the moon. All while standing on a Fresh out of the Crate, 1978 Pantera. That was back in March 1977.

The first Pantera was a Pather Chassis. And a 440 Fan. In '76 the Pantera received its own Chassis that would later be the Platform for the ElTigre' to Transition to.

I was at several of the Sno Pro races that year including Ironwood . Both my father and uncle drove for Team Kohler in Sno Pro .

Love my artic cat 700. From 2014. I think I saw it on the production line😅❤

Holly crap

Doo-doo riders still crying in their 🍺🍺🍺

Reading the comments here. Full of misinformation. Better off reading The Boss Cat website.

It was sad that with the impending divorce of Arctic Cat and Kawasaki coming in summer of 1975, those Kawy water cooled engines wound up on a shelf. Some of that technology wouldn’t see the light of day until the Kawasaki Invaders were built. The complaint was the weight of the first gen LC engines. I think Lofton ran an updated Kawy RX 650 free air 1973 EXT engine in his machine as a preference. Seems like saw photos of that somewhere. I ve talked to current owners of these sleds , digging into the history and that’s what they told me. To me, the engine problems with big K caused a long delay in LC engines in the El Tigre’s. They didn’t introduce the Suzuki 440 LC until a limited run in the 1976 Z Racer , then a full 250/340/440 Z run for the 1977 racer and 340 Cross Country,. Again all limited build race sleds. It’s like they were timid about mass production. Finally fall 1977 they introduced the now legendary 1978 6000 440 El Tigre trail sled. Two Years after the Rupp Nitro and five years after the Brute made waves. The Suzuki engine was strong and reliable, but I’ve always felt it was about two years late to market. Possibly traceable right back to the 1973/4 race season and the decision to dump Kawasaki as engine supplier shortly after. Big K had teething pains and really wanted to go its own way. The switch to Suzuki got a better line of engines across the board, but it caused delays that hurt Arctic. Fast forward to today and Arctic is struggling to meet production of their own engine line to market demand after phasing out Suzuki and making deals with Yamaha as a long term stopgap. I bleed purple, but damn folks remember your history!

Is it for sale? i need that rig in sweden!😍😍😍😍😍

I got the same sled

I have a 77 F/A,and 3 1979 Panteras. Best riding leaf spring snowmobile PERIOD.

Panther. For work or for fun 👍

The Catillac

Thank You for the Reminder of how great Charley Lofton was. As a point of Trivia the Polaris and Artic Cat factories are only about 70 miles apart

God bless you buddy. I hope Heaven has snow.

Fantastic...This was the good old days before everybody went woke and """"freedom fighters"""" didn't cook babies in microwaves and then go into rat holes and hide between women and kids and then cry for cease fire.

Good thing he's stopping every 50'. If he goes fast the windshield and hood are going to rip right off.

Great sleds till you have to change the spark plugs. I would love to meet the engineer who designed that.

Open megaphones brrrrp brrrrrppp lol.

Dade hjälpte jag mycket när han började köra rallycross/isracing.

Such a great time ,sad how time goes by, I worked a lot of overtime hours assembling them for the show room floor

Is the track a mile Track. It looks like it aint

Great music.

One minute he is on a Panther then next he’s on a Puma.

Merc had everyone beat back then

This video is my Dad’s 8mm home movie that I converted and posted to KZbin on 2009. You should acknowledge that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmi2lqClpKehZ9Esi=sTuKMKJhQg1wAryB

Just bought one in nice shape..got some videos on here

Those were the days. Nothing was extreme, just good hard riding. 👍👍👍

Still the one!

Raced against all three of those guys years ago, they were crazy good!

Indeed, 1970s was a crazy era. BTW, does anyone know the song playing in the background of the video?

Isn't a 22H supposed to have Hirth in it?

Great clarity!

I think the 760 sounds better with the trail baffles installed in the ACS pipes. They made a trail baffle, a race baffle and some guys ran no baffles. Over the years I think a stock engine runs better with the trail baffle. It wants some back pressure. Bogs less.

Why did Arctic Cat use those Walbro carburetors for as long as they did?

I remember when the I-500 would come thru town, Overnight in Bemidji and take off across the lake in the morning - oh those were the days. Also Looks like my '70 Country Squire will arrive as promised.

Still would like have one now in 2023. 😎

I lived in white bear lake mn this was a BIG DEAL THANKS FOR THE VIDEO

Used to call them megaphones. I had a 69 Panther with a 300 Hirth with one. Probably the reason I cant hear good. I was 13.

they didnt sound stock to me there at the end...

Can’t believe he sold all of this.

I was probably in the grandstand, Alexandria MN my home town, it's viking speedway, 1/2 mile dirt track