TRAIL TALES
The Antique Snowmobile Club
of America (ASCOA) was
founded more than 40 years
ago to preserve and promote
the colorful heritage of the early years
of snowmobiling.
Dave Guenther is the club’s president,
and like many ASCOA members, he
enjoys spending countless hours re-storing
antique and vintage sleds. The
retired high school teacher and avid
snowmobiler who lives Pequot Lakes,
Minn., says tinkering with old ma-chines
is just something he’s always
loved doing.
“I’m a farm kid. I like machinery and
I enjoy the challenge of taking a piece
of that old piece of equipment that’s
been laying out in the woods, neglected
for years and years and years, and just
bringing it back to life again. For me,
that’s my biggest kick, preserving the
history of those old machines,” said
Guenther, who belongs to a number
of different snowmobiling clubs and
was inducted into the International
Snowmobile Hall of Fame in 2018.
“There’s a lot of people who will fix
them up and sell them. When I’ve fixed
up a machine, some people will ask,
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