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Well, we are all in this together, staying home, avoiding contact with other human beings and avoiding any more bad news. But the good news is your stuck at home and that can only mean one thing: Quality Garage Time®!
If you’ve got extra time to be out in the garage catching up on your projects, then we are here to help! For a limited time, we are doing an AUTOMATIC 10% off ANY order of $200 or more!
Just shop for what you want and you’ll see the 10% Coronavirus Discount on your shopping cart when you check out. Then just sit back and wait for it to be delivered to your door and *POOF* you’ll be able to make some real progress on your projects.
Thank you and we look forward to this all being over!
Sadly the original Boss Cat was completely destroyed in a fire at Arctic Cat. After setting a world record speed of 125.87 miles per hour on February 1st, 1971, surviving an explosion in Boonville New York, the sled put back together and was sent on a tour of dealers, distributors, sled shows and special events before winding up in the entrance of Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls, Minnesota some years later.
Two reproductions have been made of this iconic sled, because Arctic Cat did much more with it than set a speed record; they set the imaginations of a lot of people on fire with possabilities. There was no way anyone was going to let this beauty fade away and be forgotten.
This one was done by the Warning Family, primarily Jim Warning and his son Keith. The chassis was reproduced by Al Enno and Lee Larsen, the body was recreated by fiberglass magician Kenny Halverson (who worked on the original glass back in the day) and the mechanicals, driveline and turbonique were all done by drag racing legend Paul Groth.
A thing of beauty all by itself, they were not content on just having a pretty machine in their showroom. They wanted it to run.
The Boss Cat was powered by a 4-cylinder King Kat engine, an engine that is pretty rare. But that engine powered a Turbonique turbine, a much rarer beat to be sure. But Kieth and cousin Brad hunted one of the very few remaining Turboniques on the planet and managed to talk the owner into letting it go for this special project.
Over the memorial day weekend, Paul and the boys let the Turbonique sing for the first time in decades. It was all captured by Dave Schark. For sure it’s not really loud and has an unusual sound all it’s own, but it’s truly amazing to hear it after being silent for so long.
Putting the hood back on.
Starting the 4-cylinder King Kat engine.
Original Boss Cat on display at a snowmobile show back in the day.
Original Boss Cat turbine exploding in Boonville, New York.
Arctic Cat came up with a huge winner in 1968 that would set the pace for consumer and race sleds for almost a decade.
With the use of a lot of aluminum to lighten it up and the new slide-rail suspension, the beloved Panther could go a lot faster for a lot longer using less horsepower and fuel in the process.
She was a big winner in the 1968 races, including a huge win when Dale Cormican won the Winnipeg to St. Paul I-500 race.
It was a massive hit with consumers, and now vintage collectors and riders rank it as one of their very favorite snowmobiles of all time.
Yes we do, from tunnels to hoods and everything in between.
Don’t see what you need? Call us at (320) 248-5577!
Hello!
We were closed November 16 to November 26, but we are open now! All orders placed during that time were shipped on November 27.
If you have any questions you can still call us at. 320 248 5577
Thank you! Bill
We’re getting ready to bring the Arctic Restoration truck with a large stock of parts for you to choose from! We don’t know exactly where we will be. but we are usually right on one of the main walkways. We look forward to seeing you – just look for the big Arctic Restoration logo! August 24th and 25th. Visit the Outlaw Grass Drags website for more information on the event.
In order to make the website easier to use, we have restructured our parts to be under a wider range of categories.
Want to find seat snaps? Click on the Seats category. We’ve got new categories for hoods, rear suspension parts, windshields and all our Kitty Kat parts.. and a whole lot more.
We hope this will make the site easier to use.. and as always, we are open to questions, feedback or your ideas on how to make Arctic Restorations the best it can be.
Thanks and enjoy some Quality Garage Time today!
PSSSST! Looking for NOS Cat Parts? Well my friend Jerry has tons of the stuff!
Jerry Legatt and I started Arctic Restorations over a decade ago. In that time, we saw two different businesses in what we were doing. Reproduction parts vs NOS (New Old Stock) parts. While making reproduction parts can be very costly and time consuming, hunting down, buying and taking care of NOS parts can be as well.
So over a year ago, we decided it made more sense to split it up. Ever since then, I (Bill Adams) have been handling the reproduction side, while Jerry is still doing the NOS parts.. and he’s got a TON of them. Be sure to check with him on your next project!
Do you have a restored Arctic Cat snowmobile using parts and advice from Arctic Restoration Specialties? We would LOVE to see them. Give us a call (number is on the top of the website) or preferably, just shoot as an email with some photos!
We’ll post it up here. Tell us about the sled, what it means to you, how you found it, what the challenges were to get it back to life.. we’d love to hear about it.
Every year, Arctic Restorations goes to a bunch of vintage snowmobile shows and snowmobile related shows. We haul a huge trailer and bring a ton of parts with us. We also use those trips as a way to deliver products to our customers who visit those shows.
Although we can’t always get to every show, here’s a list of shows we almost always go to:
We’ll put more up here when we know we are going!
