Ever see this? Polaris powered "indy" car

[Randy]

Dad had this back in the early 80's, I was not allowed to drive it but I do remember him driving it around. We lived back in the woods on a lightly traveled road and I can remember it like it was yesterday dad going by the house at I don't know what speed but he was flying. 100+ maybe? All I know is it was like a flash when he went by. It did really go. I think it was a 440 Polaris?

 

[oldsledz]

It is a Polaris Star Car worth big money.

 

[wayne]

It is a Polaris Star Car worth big money.

LOL don't even so much as mention how much

 

[wayne]

oldsleds,glad you noticed the polaris,it had a man: tag inside that said it was maid by
polaris, but when to some local polaris dealers,they told me i was wrong,polaris never
ever maid someting like that,,i think that was ther mistake,not mine,,if i could get the
car back,i wonder what it might be worth,give or take a $1000.00,but it might be worth
50 bucks ????? owell i wish i wish

 

[steven Durham]

Wayne : There were lot's of experimental efforts back in those days using the powerful snow mobile engines in lots of different types of vehicles. We were of course into off road trike racing. and on of my friends was given a Yamaha 440 CC engine equipped with an experimental fuel injection set up and huge expansion chambers and a tune able clutch.
When that engine was put into a Tri-Sport RTS frame that thing would fly once it got up on the pipe. But racing on our short modified mini bike tracks he could never get it to perform well enough to beat smaller less equipped machines.
We even had a 650 CC free air Kohler engine that was way to much for short track racing I made a Trike so light weight it didn't even have seat padding and used a Horstman oil bath kart clutch and a McCulloch 101A twin carbed engine and we raced speedway style at a very famous Firestone Raceway a little 10th of a mile Bull Ring. And my friend Wayne Coppers @ 155 Pounds Shure whooped a lot of Butt in that little trike.
We had so much fun in those days.
Steve

 

[Randy]

Wayne : There were lot's of experimental efforts back in those days using the powerful snow mobile engines in lots of different types of vehicles. We were of course into off road trike racing. and on of my friends was given a Yamaha 440 CC engine equipped with an experimental fuel injection set up and huge expansion chambers and a tune able clutch.
When that engine was put into a Tri-Sport RTS frame that thing would fly once it got up on the pipe. But racing on our short modified mini bike tracks he could never get it to perform well enough to beat smaller less equipped machines.
We even had a 650 CC free air Kohler engine that was way to much for short track racing I made a Trike so light weight it didn't even have seat padding and used a Horstman oil bath kart clutch and a McCulloch 101A twin carbed engine and we raced speedway style at a very famous Firestone Raceway a little 10th of a mile Bull Ring. And my friend Wayne Coppers @ 155 Pounds Shure whooped a lot of Butt in that little trike.
We had so much fun in those days.
Steve

I was telling Dad, certain car dealers would get "special" cars to try out. I used to work for a Large Chevrolet dealer that had a special relationship with GM. They once had a Monte Carlo aerocoupe with the Buick turbo V6. Factory from GM. The car was not to be sold just driven and then returned.
But Any GM "Expert" will tell you that, that car never excised.

Randy

 

[Randy]

So I guess the moral of this is Dad should have saved this for me?

The stuff he would bring home.........LOL

 

[steven Durham]

Randy : Yes we all have had our chance to keep the interesting ones but time after time they slip away. A man I knew built the Mid engine Buick powered dune buggy that Buick used to promote the use of that V-6 engine. It was not a stock motor but a hopped up Kenny-Bell race engine hooked up to a modified VW Transaxle Via a Kennedy Engineering adapter plate and clutch. That Buick commercial was always great to see.
Steve