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The famous or was that “infamous” Huntsville bed race. Fire department volunteers for the Huntsville Flames! Left to right: Glenn Jones, Glen Duffield, Brady Corrie, Terry Joiner, can’t remember the last chap (we think it may be Terry Eades — let us know if you can confirm, Doppler readers). Not too old, would put it around 1988 or so (look at the Ford pick up in the photo). I believe it belonged to Donny Branch — he made the “bed on wheels” for us.
Thanks for sharing this with us, Glen!
That is Terry Eades, now residing on Vancouver Island
The snowmobile is about a 1965 (plus or minus a year or so) Ski Doo. Probably an 8 to 10 HP machine.
These machines where very light by today’s standards. One person could easily pick up the back of it and spin it around 180 degrees when you got stuck. They would go pretty good in soft snow.
Top speed in ideal conditions with a strong tail wind was about 25 to 30 mph.
Helmets were unheard of, no licenses or insurance was required, there were no ride checks and police patrols and guess what…. darn few serious injuries too but or course there were fewer machines and the low speeds made accidents less serious anyway.
They were a lot of fun!!