![]() It would also be the machine that introduced many sledheads into the sport - from average Joe trail rider to mountain riders to championship-winning snowmobile racers.Īrctic Cat Kitty Cat Production The pilot-build of approximately 50 Arctic Cat Kitty Cats, including the one shown at Boonville, used a Clinton two-cycle engine under a non-functional chrome hood grille with trim decals that were patterned after the 1971 EXT race sleds. The price was initially announced as “about $250.” Little did anyone know at the time that this unique machine would become a snowmobile icon for decades to come, and the most successful kid sled ever built. Arctic officials emphasized that the Kitty Cat was small enough to go in the trunk of a car, yet it was styled to look just like a big Cat, right down to its molded plastic hand controls, black hood and Arctic trademark spotted vinyl seat cover over the high-density foam seat. Crammed full of safety features and restricted to a top speed between 8 and 12 mph, depending on where the engine governor was set, the Kitty Cat clearly wasn’t a real trail sled but more of a motorized toy for the back yard. ![]() Although youth-sized snowmobiles had been around for several years, the new Cat for kids was aimed at an even younger crowd, the 5- to 10-year-olds. ![]() But race sleds weren’t the only snow machines in the public eye that weekend, as the pint-sized was unveiled to the public. Arctic Cat Kitty Cat The second annual USSA World Series of Snowmobiling was held in March, 1971, in Boonville, New York. ![]()
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