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Post by mrmotors on Mar 5, 2015 22:04:38 GMT -6
I gotta go with Magnesium on this one, "The" long green line... . I had to run an 8820 for a bit one time, I hated that POS after running N6's. The only good thing about that green pile was that it had a reverse on the feederhouse. Massey's and Wagner's work for me...
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Post by nobody on Mar 20, 2015 21:42:35 GMT -6
About the plastic panels. I have some sad news for you involving the black rubber like panels. When I was just out of high school a close friend of mine's father was really into Rupp sleds. He had made molds and was producing the fiberglass replica's of the plastic upper side panels. The Rupp company sued him and he quit making them. Then he found out from a guy he knew thru work that the molds for the original injected plastic upper panels were at a plastics company in Farmington hills Michigan and were to be scraped. This would have been 74-75 can't remember exactly. Anyway Ronnie's dad bought the molds and took them to a company in the town we lived in, Walled Lake Mi. He had them make the panels from a plastic used to mold toys. The company was called Gay Toys for many many years. The name of the company has been changed now. Any way the black rubbery plastic was painted with the flexible bumper paint of the late 70's. After the first few black ones, he got them to mold the Rupp red but it would turn darker red in the weather if left outside. Well Ronnie was out of messing with sleds at the point that his father passed away in the early 90's. When cleaning out the house to sell it he said to himself "what am I ever going to do with these molds", so he scraped them. Well a year later he decided to fix up a couple of his dads old sleds to ride and found this Rupp site on the net, he became a member here. I reconnected with Ronny at the A-1 show 5-6 years ago and he told me the sad story of the injection molds he now wished so desperately that he would have kept. Sadly Ronny passed away himself suddenly a year and a half ago at 56. So as many things tend to happen, the original injection molds for the upper side panels are gone to history.
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Post by lemans1955 on Mar 21, 2015 15:09:46 GMT -6
Cool story, mystery solved on the black rubbery panels then! How a 71 Magnum with them ended up in a junkyard in central Massachusetts is probably a story we will never know. Shame about those molds though.
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Post by yankeejames on Dec 28, 2016 7:27:49 GMT -6
Good day, new to the website.
I just got my grandpas 1972 yankee and was hoping I could get some help finding replacement panels. All upper panels have been broken and removed.
Thanks in advance
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Post by snosnake on Dec 28, 2016 15:00:06 GMT -6
I have repopped fiberglass panels for the 72 Rupps. Rick 507-533-8803
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Post by goliyankee on Jan 13, 2017 9:27:04 GMT -6
Good day, new to the website. I just got my grandpas 1972 yankee and was hoping I could get some help finding replacement panels. All upper panels have been broken and removed. Thanks in advance I have exactly the same story to tell! My grandpa bought a ´72 Yankee 30hp in 1979 and imported to our home in Iceland. It was used on and off until the 1990´s. It has since been in storage, but I am restoring it now. It is in pretty good shape, but I need all the panels, and need to replace the driver sprocket and the track. Does anyone know where I can find the correct info on the original track, and where I can buy a new one? Thank you guys!
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Post by dwhite55741 on Jan 29, 2017 20:11:40 GMT -6
Cool story, mystery solved on the black rubbery panels then! How a 71 Magnum with them ended up in a junkyard in central Massachusetts is probably a story we will never know. Shame about those molds though.
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