1972 Ski-Doo Blizzard 797cc Triple 

I remember going to the races as a kid and there would be a bunch of these things RIPPING around on the track burning alcohol and making a shit ton of noise! Man those were good times. I love these big bore tanks. They handled like driving a log through mud but man they could move. It was all you could do to hang on. Its great to see one again! ❤

Had the pleasure of driving a 440 blizzard racer.

I watched Yvonne DuHamel win the 1972 Canadian Power Toboggan Championship in Beausejour Manitoba on one of those sleds. He hit speeds of 96 mph ! His teammate Gaston Ferland finished 2nd and Dave Shack from Beausejour finished third. They all ran these sleds out of Lucko’s Ski Doo shop right next to the track. As a kid I had never seen sleds go so fast and I will always remember that day ! Oh ya there were 25,000 people at those races !! Thanks for sharing that sled Carl ! Maybe see you out there when we get some snow.

Thanks for posting one of these machines being ridden. I miss the 72 Blizzard 395 that I restored and rode a few yews ago.

So glad you posted this it brings back great memories for me. I’m 53 and growing up in the 70s for me was haveing a garage full of sleds and bikes. My father had a 292 Blizzard in the line up. That thing was so Loud, and I’d make him start it every chance that I could. He had a 74 440 FA “Free Air” and my brother a 340 FA that was custom painted by a rattle can by yours truly ( how I survived that one I’ll never know, that he took yellow decals off and had it all white with the orange or??? Black vents on top, I’d have to research that. He also had a 640 that didn’t get much love after the newer ones came out. That sled is beautiful right there. In 78 Ski Doo went by the wayside after going to the races one weekend. A few weeks later Pops came home with a brand new 78 Yamaha SRX 440 and that sled had many a man go home teary eyed or very angry because it was the King in the the valley. Hudson Valley NY. My favorite of all sleds and I almost had a mint showroom all original one back in late 80s was the Yamaha SSR. The most beautiful sled ever created in my book. I mention this because you can see that they bit off the blizzard design a bit. Just lowered and cut it all down. Thank you for the memories my man!

Thats like owning a brick of gold~ super rare and highly collectable if you can find one that isnt destroyed! what a find! thanks for the video, Happy New yr!

WOW,Brings back awesome memories,My dad raced these in the 70s,a 797 and a 340,he also raced a 1971 Moto Ski 650 Bullet.There aint nothing like the sound of a triple with pipes!!

What a great old beast of a sled!

That's awesome! I was 7 when that was built lol praying for snow here in Pa or in selling my sled! Facts..... 💯💯💯

That's an awesome machine! I thought the biggest that Doo went in the 70's was the 640 TNT.

1972 out of Alaska? I'm sure I watched that sled race at Big Lake...many times. Can't recall who was running it then (Wade Charles/Kronquist?), but since I was a 16 year old obsessed 'snowmachine' (that's what most Alaskans call sleds) nut back then, who bled black/yellow blood...I never missed a race. Thanks for the memories! 😎

Still a great sound, even if it isn’t as fast as nowadays, the sound makes up for it.

Beautiful sled the reason they’re so rare is they only made 300 of them and 300 6050s

nice sled!

Super loud super sketchy tight ski stance dart master lol I remember these sleds when I was a kid going to the Ski-Doo ranch near us watching these things rip it up while riding my Elan …

The 797 Blizzard was rated right around 102 hp, which was quite a mile stone at that time.

Too bad we don’t have snow anymore to go riding😢

This was after the King cats and they were by that time obsolete.

I had no idea they had 800 triples back then?

Made to compete with the Rupp Magnum?