who was the first owner of your cat?

[Snowy Rivers]

THE 2100 WAS purchased from a fella in Mollala Oregon...Rig came from Mt Bachelor ski area
Model 2100B ......Serial number 601

The 4 tracked cat TYPE Sphynx came from Mosier Oregon and was a breeding queen ...Adopted us in the fall of 2014....No serial number Has us well trained.....

 

[Pontoon Princess]

first owner was: David A Gregg of New Hampshire, serial number 146018, from May,1947 till August 20, 2022, 75 years...1946 Tucker, model 320 came with a 1946 snocat trailer, and it runs !

The Rescue Crew, thank you to each of you, well done...

 

[Dad of girls]

Custom was: So. Calif. Edison
Completion date: 1/18/1980

If anyone has information on So. Calif Edison please let me know! Thanks

 

[Melensdad]

First owner? No clue. . .

Mine came from Scotland, my avatar photo is a photo of it on a mountain top in Scotland. It fell into disrepair and then was "restored" by a BBC TV show Channel 4. I use the term "restored" very loosely. More like they got it running and cleaned up some stuff, but it was in no way a restoration. It was usable after it was 'restored' but I wouldn't trust it in real wilderness.

A guy in England ended up buying it. I bought it from him, loaded it on a container ship and had it freighted to Chicago. Trucked from Chicago to me.

Most of the restoration was done by me. I eventually, after a decade of use and starting these Snowcat forums for Doc, sold it to a guy in Canada who intended to use it to take his kids for rides.

I'm always looking for another track machine project but honestly I have so much other stuff to do that it seems like it's a high desire but low priority project.

 

[Dad of girls]

1951 423 Tucker SnoCat
Sold to BR Smith Jackson Hole Wyoming
Serial # 150131

The girls picked this cat up in Labarge Wyoming.

 

[Don Coyote]

My Tucker sat at historic Mount Mancelona for 33 years, but before that, it was a "Ski Patrol Ambulance" at Shanty Creek in Bellaire, Mi. I was working as a Lift Operator when they sold it. I have no idea where it came from before Shanty Creek owned it............ but it is plausable that it originally came from Mount Mancelona.

Mount Mancelona began as a municipal park in 1954, ( I think), but the original PRIVATE owner was Harold Axtman. He purchased the property in 1957 and had a Tucker Sno Cat as a groomer. It may only be a coincidence, but the Tucker was sold in 1984 at auction..... perhaps it went to Shanty Creek, 14 miles west of Mancelona? (No-one has ever been able to tell me).

My research tells me that Axtman's Tucker was a 1964..... mine is a 1965. Perhaps the model year was misinterpreted?

I love a good mystery....... but facts are good, too. Maybe someday I'll get the whole story.

(I'm not going to hold my breath).

 

[Don Coyote]

Here is a pic of Harold Axtman in his Tucker. The pontoons look quite different than mine. Mine has adjustable track tensioners on it , the one pictured here doesn't appear to have those. And the "Drain Holes" are much smaller than mine.

I don't believe they are the same machine.

 

[redsqwrl]

Here is a pic of Harold Axtman in his Tucker. The pontoons look quite different than mine. Mine has adjustable track tensioners on it , the one pictured here doesn't appear to have those. And the "Drain Holes" are much smaller than mine.

I don't believe they are the same machine.



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Send your vin to tucker and see what they know?

 

[Dad of girls]

My Tucker sat at historic Mount Mancelona for 33 years, but before that, it was a "Ski Patrol Ambulance" at Shanty Creek in Bellaire, Mi. I was working as a Lift Operator when they sold it. I have no idea where it came from before Shanty Creek owned it............ but it is plausable that it originally came from Mount Mancelona.

Mount Mancelona began as a municipal park in 1954, ( I think), but the original PRIVATE owner was Harold Axtman. He purchased the property in 1957 and had a Tucker Sno Cat as a groomer. It may only be a coincidence, but the Tucker was sold in 1984 at auction..... perhaps it went to Shanty Creek, 14 miles west of Mancelona? (No-one has ever been able to tell me).

My research tells me that Axtman's Tucker was a 1964..... mine is a 1965. Perhaps the model year was misinterpreted?

I love a good mystery....... but facts are good, too. Maybe someday I'll get the whole story.

(I'm not going to hold my breath).

Learning the history is half the fun of these old cats in our opinion!