Reviving 50 YEAR OLD Vintage Snowmobile !! (TWIN TRACK CONCEPT VEHICLE) 

Name the greatest vintage snowmobile ever down below!! And let us know what we should do with this thing!!

I had one of those as a kid. Mine had the ccw 400 on it. Tillotson HD or HR carb depending what engine you had. They were fun, dangerous but fun

Bombardier used Tillotson carbs back in the '70's... we had 6 Ski-Doos with those. That Raider is mint! Thanks for showing her off.

AW man, that brings back memories!! My dad had a dealership that sold these along with Skidoo and Polaris. I don't remember the engine size but that thing had power and speed. If you check the front ski for rods, that changed the turning ability to turn on a dime! You need better rods on the skis for that! I really wonder how many are still around? Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Loved that machine!

Neighbor sold these in the 70's. I don't recall this model but remember the 440. It was a rocket in the day. I rode many miles on the passenger seat. The 440 had a larger windshield and the rider got all the snow straight in their face.. It was awful. Many memories, thanks for keeping this old ride alive.

My dad and I had 6 of them at one point. 2 double Eagles, 2 44TTs, 1 34TT, and 1 Hawk. Also had a 1st year production Raider with no motor. Fun sleds to trail ride in. I also had a Manta which handled like a sports car. The designer was Bob Bracy who had previously designed formula 1 cars for Lotus/Ford in the late 60's.

wow. amazed it has a starter. and it fired up pretty nice and ran good. cool find.

My best friend got one new in 73, and I had a Johnson 25. That Raider was awesome on the ice, we rode almost daily in the winter on Big and Little Paw Paw lakes in MI.

That's awesome....I'm actually picking away at restoring the same sled

I had one of these, it was like a tank for snow. When you have the motor all tuned, it can be a beast, and a lot of fun simply because it's different.

Oh the memories. We had three of them growing up and an amphibious six wheeler. Had alot of sick days from school.😼

Brings back memories. My Grandfather had a single ski double track skiddo he used for hauling logs in the winter. I remember riding on it with my dad back in the early 70's. It didn't turn well, but would climb the dunes in the Muskegon Michigan area with ease. The newer snowmobiles of the time couldn't compete on the bid dunes. Love the old stuff

We had one about ten years ago. Ours was a 340 like yours but my dad's buddy had the 440 and it was a beast! It was way too rough to ride any distance but man was it neat. Had a guy drive from northern Ontario to central PA to add it to his collection. Last I heard its still running strong. Enjoy it man they are def fun machines!

It’s Awesome!!! I saw one in Vermont when I was a kid snowmobiling with my dad. That was 1975.

Awesome sled man! Even more awesome when someone (like you guys) get them running and save them from the scrap yard ! 👍🏾👌🏽🤙🏾

I knew someone who was one of the drivers for a Raiders team that was trying to get one of the 50 sleds to get into the I-500 race in Sault Ste Marie Michigan. It never made it through the time trials. Had a 650 twinn in it. The guy I knew said that when it got to about 80 mph, it would through the tracks off. They couldn't figure out how to keep the tracks on.

I remember riding next to one of these machines!! Me being a kid I was on the old beat up ScorpionII and Pops was on his 34TT in immaculate condition shining like the sun!!! I never got to ride it as it was his Pride and Joy!! Always garage kept!! I remember having a couple tears rolling as I watched him sell it!! Loved that sled!!! This one looks awesome!!! Thanks guys for the trip down memory lane!!! I haven’t thought about the old man in a while!!! Thanks.

We used one to pull a toboggan on the lake . I think it was a 440. We did it on almost bare ice that was a foot thick and clear . I am talking getting pulled at 80 + and crack the whip . The last person who had managed to hang on got to drive the sled and we would start all over again. That was a blast . When you did fall off you could skid about 50 yards on the ice. Those cleets and track worked great for not being studded . The back seat should not be used! Lol!

We test rode one of these back in the day. The dealer wouldn't deal on it so my dad passed on it. In the spring the dealer called and lowered his price. We never did buy it. I believe they went out of business shortly later. BTW, Tillotsons were a very common carb on snowmobiles back in the day, maybe even the most used ones. Easy to work on too.

I used to have 2 of the 34TT with the 340cc engine and a Raider Double Eagle with a 440cc engine. The engines were made by CCW ( Canadian Curtis Wright. sold them back in the late 80's.

My cousin had a Raider back in the day. His must have been the 400. He would drag race all comers on weekends at the local snowmobile lodge and wax them all. He used to race street stock stock cars about the same time. He liked all things fast. He passed away last year. R.I.P. , David.

Love seeing old stuff get revived and rediscovered… 👍🏼

Definitely got to see more of that thing. So awesome 👌

Hello from Sweden. The weekend is starting good whit our vlogg.

I really want one now lol seems like it would be nice for those midnight in the middle of the woods,in the middle of nowhere by yourself type of sleds or for camping

Let’s see some air lol. Or attempts at hill climbing? Cool video!!! Most of the video I was right there feelin the fun you guys we’re having and remembering the fun I’ve had in my younger years. The other feeling was just a little jealous. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I LOve the Rader sled i put a john deer 440 in mine ,miss that sled she was fast and nice and warm ,thanks for sharing ,big hugs from MN

I used to work for a dealer sold Raiders Polaris and Caparals but that was the one I liked the most , it was like you where in a speed boat...lol I just loved it and you where wandering if you could flipt it yes you could if you had a pasenger on...but no damage done . Take care of that toy and too bad they stopped making them , they where real fun

These bad-boys were 'the grail' of snowmobile lore back in the early 70s. My Dad had a '71 Ski-doo Olympique 335, that machine was as tough as nails and could fly down the dirt roads in the days when natural snow was plentiful. The Ski-doo had the same 'oversteering' quirk as does this Raider. As a 10 year old I loved these one-up machines because a kid could operate them alone without hands-on parental guidance. You're correct these machines were a rarity to see, I lived in central Ontario Canada and literally saw every snowmobile manufacturer represented at the time. Even the odd ones like AMF-Harley Davidson, Sears, Ariens, Mercury, Boa-Ski, Chrysler, Coleman, Eaton's and Hustler to name a very few. The Johnson-Evinrude factory was only 10 miles from where I grew-up, yet no local dealer (usually lawnmower sales) sold Raider snowmobiles. Thanks so much for getting this wonderful piece of North American history to work again.

I lived in Northern Maine and we had a 34TT. We found that when it was running it was a lot of fun. The problem with the steering is relatable to a jet ski. You gave a jetski the gas when you needed to steer. When you wanted to turn a Raider, let off the gas or pull the brake. That lowered the front and gave some grab. Ours kept freezing up overnight. After running it for a while, the front bearing would be warm. The resulting water would freeze solid overnight and the sled wouldn't move the next time you used it. It got to be too much of a problem in the -0 temps.

Awesome guys!! Thank you for sharing

awesome find... old school are always the best..

What a great design with that carb right smack in the dustiest place on the machine brilliant.

My dad was a salesman for Raider.... we had two earlier models. 290 model and a 340. Black stripes... and BALLS out fun!

Awesome!!!!! Love the sled, best one yet!!!!

Looks like something out of Star Wars on some outpost snow planet. Looks like a lot of fun.

WE had the same exact machine when I was young. Loved riding/driving it.

Awesome,looks like a blast

That sled is so cool!! I had two of them in the past that we found that were sitting for many years.

Sweet! Had one as a kid! Careful with those tracks!

AWESOME!.. I rode a couple of different Raiders as a kid.. they were unbelievably fun to drive.. looks like you guys are having an absolute blast!!!

Definitely cool looking. Dual trac. Insanely cool.

First sled my dad bought: Mercury Marine Model 250. Twin high mount headlights, muffler under the seat, rear high mount fuel tank, steel reinforced track, 436cc 25hp twin. We nicknamed it 'The Submarine'. It was so HEAVY the weight was not listed in the specs for fear of scaring customers, and it pretty much FLATTENED rough terrain for other sleds to follow. Good that it had a reverse system 'cause it would get stuck quite often on small hills and large drifts.

I had two Radar twin tracks many MANY years ago when I was young. They were the most fun out of all our snowmobiles!!

My neighbor had one with an 800cc, 3 cylinder Hirth. ....he dominated the local drag races.

Wow it runs .... so cool

That's a very cool throwback!

That thing is awesome. Right arms!

Dang, that looks cool!

Totally awesome sled. Wow!

When I grew up. Ok a little while ago in the early 70's my dad had customer had a dual track snowmobile made in the 60's that was dual track but it covered the whole bottom and it was made for pulling. Guy said it would top out around 18mph. He used it to pull logs in the winter time. Extremely heavy machine too.

That’s badass! Love the dual tracks! I’m working on a ‘72 Yamaha presently. It runs, but needs some tlc. Love the old sleds and old bikes! Good video👍🇺🇸❤️

So many ways to make a snow machine it would be neat to see more outside the box ideas.

you guys are the best,

I had a one with a 440 ccw in it it'd go 75mph down the road which felt like 150mph sitting so low to the ground. I made custom carbides for the skis.

Awesome! I had 1973 Boa Ski and the no filter carb would spray my snow suit with gas. I loved it.

Love it. Grew up snowmobiling and never came across one of these. Cool.

That is so badass I want one now thanks a lot Jeremy

Great video! I actually just saw one of these for sale on Craigslist today lol it was red, white, and blue. Pretty neat little sleds!

I had one, it was cool on hardpacked snow you could jam on the throttle and go into a spin and it would keep spinning until you let off because of the growser bars on the twin tracks.

Back in the 1970 era, my dad was infamous for bringing home the strangest snow machines, he bought 2 raiders, before that he had 2 Bollens diablo rouge's, they had too tracks in the front with a sled type seat in the back, Actually quite a cool machine, would love to see one of them again.

Wow awesome score 👍👍👍👍. That's just to cool 😎 can't wait to see more with it . Have a good weekend...

Man, I had one of those in the 80's ! Man I wish I still had it!

I asked my Dad if he ever saw one of these back in his snowmobiling days. He said a friend of his owned one. He said it was fast, just don't get it stuck! He rode a Yamaha 433 at that time. You have a cool sled man.

My father purchased a 1970 Moto Ski, Capri, 300 Hirth engine. Seems as though anyone with some fabricating and mechanical know how we’re building sleds back in those days. The dealer who sold the sled to my father also sold a machine called a Caribou, when I first saw your machine that’s what I thought yours was. They looked very similar to your machine, but no skis, it steered like a skid steer. Lock up one track and it would spin like a top. Top sped was like forty miles an hour and the thing weighed over six hundred pounds! Worked great on ice or packed trail, but don’t go in deep powder(read, more than twelve inches) unless there were lots of strong backs around to drag you out. Wildest machine I’ve seen. Another of my fathers sleds was a Ski Doo Alpine twin track 399. Engine was swapped for a JLO 762 cc factory race engine. Parts store called JLO’s manufacturer trying to find parts for the engine and that’s when we found out it was not meant for public use and was originally built as a “racing team” only motor. My father corresponded with someone at JLO and got some spec information and such from them as well as the story behind the development of the engine. It was meant for racing only, we never did find out how it made its way to British Columbia in western Canada and under the hood of the Alpine Ski Doo( sure wasn’t installed by Bombardier)! What a sleeper sled, twin tracks were known to be slow and barely had enough power, but after custom machining some new gears for the drive chain we used to smoke the stock “muscle” sleds of the day. Biggest motor available in factory sleds at the time was 634 cc Hirth engine which was used by a couple of sled manufacturers.

I rememder them when they were brand new. Cool looking machines

Lol. That's a good find for a collector. I remember those well. A friends dad had one. They were cool looking (in there time) but rode terrible and were death traps. The twin tracks had grouser bars which acted like ice skates when you get on the lake. If you flipped it, the driver had a good chance of getting injured.

When I was a kid, my dad took me to the frozen lake. Were these twin track snowmobile‘s with three cylinders and racing pipes maybe even four cylinders were whipping around in circles on a small oval track doing over 80 maybe even 100 miles an hour, and I’ve always wondered what those things were. They were obviously heavily modified, but they had twin tracks.

That little to track machine is cool

its crazy what a lil carb cleaning will do. great sled find

So, that’s like a snow beetle, the motor being in the back and all😁🇸🇪

I had one of these. Bought it brand new for $1300. Canadian. Had a 440 ccw(Canadian Curtis Wright) engine. My Wife rode inside on the seat while I would sit on the back and lean over her and drive. After about the 2nd year of ownership I had nothing but problems with the carburetor on it. Ended up selling it for $600. I still have some photos of it.

I remember seeing them things at the LG winter carnival when I was a kid. I believe they had an accessory tow behind for more seating if my memory is correct. More Raider vids! Maine trip?

I saw that when I was a teen. Thought it was the neatest thing ever. Still do! 😄😆👍🏻

That thing got alot of potential

Awesome video keep up the good work

Loved it.

That thing is legit cool

The Alouette snow mobiles were the first twin tracks from Quebec and F1 champion Villenov blew the competition away at the race's in all classes.

That is a cool machine looks fun to ride

Ohh that looks like a good time..until i had to fix it. Haha. I still want it.

Man I love these sleds, always wanted a raider

She's a relic!!!

A friend's Dad owned two Raider Twin Track snowmobiles in 1971. They were in Gaylord Mich. A lot of fun to drive but would only hold one person.

Call it "Sleigher!" 😁 Can smell the twosmoke through the screen! I love the sit in design, looks like a motorized SLED! HAHA Can't wait to get on something motorized again.

sweet machine

Looks like its running rich. Had a freind that had one in the latest 70s or early 80s in high school.

Always wanted one, you got lucky finding one in good shape usually they have sat outside forever and are not doing so good. Enjoy it

Surprising how many people commenting their experiences with the ol twin track Raider. I'm no exception, as my dad also had one.

There is one of those in Western NY near Buffalo that has one of those that he restored to showroom condition, I saw it at a vintage snowmobile show in 2/22. It was remarkable the detail he put into it!

You guys should get a Diablo rouge they were neat sleds

I love knowing me and my buddies aren’t the only ones day drinking

I believe that's what my dad took me on for my 1st ride, northern Michigan, quickly rolled it, never forget the track still rolling while it was pinning my 5yr-old leg😬.. great memories!

Thing was sick I want one

More videos with the raider is a must. Maybe put a rotax 503 in it with dual carbs

Very cool machine in their time

I saw one these , in 1980 in Fort Nelson British Columbia Canada . I sat in it , but that's all , it was the same 340 tt . thank you for sharing this . I always wondered , I always remembered this and now I know 👍

dude, hilarious... a modern day Raider is exactly what we need.. a bit longer and wider with more power would be sick.....lol delorean rear end style is classic... good score guys.. love it

that thing is awesome

I had a 1974 Eagle Raider 44TT when I was a kid. Had allot of fun in it! Those are not the proper rear foot pegs for the passenger, they didn't have foot pegs. I also had a wheel kit for the summer & it could be licensed for the road. You should try and find a Manta twin track! 👍