Polaris Snowmobiling: 1978 Eagle River World Championship (Super 8 Film)
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- Demonstation of a Chinon SS-1200 Super 8 projector: A short film by Polaris on the 1978 World Championship and its 3 riders: Steve Thorsen, Jerry Bunke & Todd Elmer
I'm not a snowmobiller, actually I don't think I've ever seen one up close, but after watching this movie I found this interesting web page about the Polaris 1978 snowmobile team. It doesn't mention Todd Elmer for some reason though.
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My Cousin raced Polaris Snowmobiles on Oval Tracks mainly in Michigan .. She is in her mid to late 80's now . Her Husband did the wrenching .
Great vid. I remember seeing these guys in 77 and 78 at the Kawartha cup.
Neat film! It's to bad that Jerry Bunke was killed on Feb, 26/78 in Beausejour Manatoba, I grew up 30 miles from Beausejour in Lac du Bonnet and happend to be at that race. I'll never forget it, I was 14 at the time. R.I.P. Jerry Bunke.
It's great to see how his family is carried on the racing tradition for the bunkes
That projector reminds me of the old school. When the show was over someone has to thread the film and rewind the tape. My how times change.
It is almost like they were cheating in those days with the chassis they developed. Did not take long for the others to figure it out though.
I very much appreciate the time and effort put forth to put this video together. Thank you!
Jeff Stevens You're welcome. Out of over 200 videos I've uploaded in 6 years I think this is my favorite and I knew *nothing* about the sport when I uploaded it! Maybe you can clear something up for me - I know Thorsen finished 1st and Elmer 3rd, but I could never make out in the audio who finished 2nd. Do you know who it was and what team he was on?
Dan O'Connor I will see what I can find. Do you have any other videos like this?
Morio Ito of Japan on the Yamaha SSR was 2nd ithink he said .... Bob Elsner on the Cat and Bobby Donahue on the sk-doo were also there. Very cool ! Thanks
Great information! Watching the video again I can hear it fairly clearly now that I know what name to listen for. Thanks!
Polaris is a cat eating beast
Nice. CZcams’s algorithm has me down. Love old film and vintage sleds. Have a 16mm Ski Doo safety film I would like to transfer and upload. Nice super 8 projector by the way. 👍🏼
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm a player 03 800 xcr I like that video
This was about 2 years before a race car driver built some twin tracks
That's about my first trip there. The twin tracks dominated.