A couple of years ago I picked up a 1985 Polaris Indy 600 that had been sitting in my brother-in-law's garage for several years in non-running condition. I brought it home and it sat in my garage gathering dust for a few months until my neighbor offered to give me a hand getting her running again. It took a couple of weeks and a few new parts, but we finally got it running toward the end of winter. I was able to ride it a few times before there wasn't enough snow. So back into the garage it went for the summer.

The next winter I took it in to get the recoil rope replaced (the other one broke over the summer when I was trying to start it) and I got the carbs cleaned after sitting all summer. There's nothing like driving a finely tuned sled across a fresh coating of snow. To me, it's the closest thing to flying you'll ever get without leaving the ground. Although if you hit the right kind of drifts, you get to experience some real flying for a few seconds.

Unfortunately, as the old snowmobile saying goes, "ride it all weekend, work on it all week"; my old Indy decided to quit on me after a long ride one day. Thankfully I was across the street from my house when it did. So back into the garage it went for the rest of winter. It stayed there all this winter as well, due to the fact that there was never enough snow to get me excited enough to want to ride and I didn't know if I wanted to stick more money into it.

So with winter winding down and the weather warming up, I somewhat regretfully decided to sell it. It was only on Craigslist for one day before I sold it to a guy who restores and rides vintage sleds. I was sad to see it go but maybe I'll use the money toward a 4-wheeler ... Hey, at least I can ride that all year round.

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