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Is it possible to build a bombarier from scratch?
the old trucker:
I've seen a c-18 before, I've seen a b-12 before. I've seen Dan Shavers little 350 (nick-named a c-6)
But this is the first time I've ever seen a pair a c-1's !!! Are they wooden or metal bodied??/ Ha Ha Ha
Do they come with am/fm/cd radios??
DR.R:
Hey grfishmaker! I saw your pictures of the 2 bugs. Appears they would represent a wide gauge, but the body looks very similar to mine. I have no ID plate on mine. What year of bug did you replicate yours from? Thanks!
DR.R
grfishmaker:
Hello there Dr. R
Those were just a drawing out of my head, following no great design (early 50's and on). Bombadier bodies have changed so little over the years, it would be very difficult to nail down the year of your machine by body style alone. Your best bet would be for you to take a few pictures of the machine, incuding things like door handles, door closures (type of pin), and sent it to Cranman and Ted, between them and the rest of the boys up there, I would bet they would narrow your machine down to within a few years on origin (if not the exact year) As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words).There is alot of knowledge about these machines up there with that group. Unless you owned the machine from new, it has probably had all kinds of modifications done to it by the various owners over the years. That's what makes it so hard to identify these old machines.
Good luck.
Averyman:
A farmer in our area in Saskatchewan where I grew up built one from scratch back in the late 1940's or very early 50s. If Jack could do it with the equipment and materials available at that time, building one nowadays should be a snap....
B12 man:
Building a snow moble from scrack is not hard but if you were thinking of geting a j5 for axles then for get it only one axle is usable from a j5 the one right behind the cog the other two ar conected in tandom and ar no good for a snow moble for axles get a muskeg the under carege and axles are very simlear but the muskeg is a wide vecle it has a tracks to wide for a snow moble but remowing one set of grosers wil shorten the track and they are good for the snow moble i am also in the proses of making a snow moble and this summer i am get a mus keg that is scraped to help rebuild it good luck and dont give up.
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