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robtan88 · Post by **robtan88** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:33 pm

Hi Guys. Looking at the early Spit design, and I know Deere was way ahead of other sled builders of the time, that hood design just screams Yamaha Enticer as we knew them of the 80,s, kinda like the patent TSS design Deere had, and Yamaha came out with something so similar shortly after, you would swear both companies shared the same engineers...Rob.

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:17 pm

Under the hood

JDCornFlakes · Post by **JDCornFlakes** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:13 pm

Being a car fanatic and always have thought prototypes are so friggin cool. It is awesome when these 1-2 offs end up surviving and are around still today. Like the
69 Grand Prix steam powered car that Pontiac built and Leno has today.

Did this sled survive?

Or did any of those IFS Sportfires make it ?

AirborneX4Special · Post by **AirborneX4Special** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:26 pm

The only IFS prototype anyone can confirm still exists is the one Polaris had at Waconia. A photo from the back lot at Polaris shows two IFS Deeres sitting side by side with an unidentified sled under a cover and the other appears to be the one from Waconia. The Waconia machine had a Sportfire chassis with what appeared to be a Liquifire engine.
It had been parked outside for an unknown length of tme. I believe the thread about this machine is still on the site, pictures included.

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:42 pm

Next step

TASKY · Post by **TASKY** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:07 pm

That strap holding the fuel tank down looks like the same type of strap used on old number 54 to hold the seat down.

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:37 pm

lwb140 · Post by **lwb140** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:54 pm

similar to the 295 tank ?

Deerenuts · Post by **Deerenuts** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:53 am

very close

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:01 am

JD600 · Post by **JD600** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:52 pm

I'm liking the juice brake setup!

DE

AirborneX4Special · Post by **AirborneX4Special** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:53 pm

Deere built all these prototypes with hydraulic brakes, including one as tiny as this example, and all the race sleds with at least an optional hydraulic setup. It's nearly incredible they never even offered it as optional equipment on at least the performance machines where it would be somewhat critical. One could buy all manner of options on farm equipment and Deere went to great lengths to exploit that in marketing programs.

Horicon Joe · Post by **Horicon Joe** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:37 pm

Little John

liquitisplit80 · Post by **liquitisplit80** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:43 pm

I'm really liking that seat! Thinkin of making one for mine!

Post by **Matt** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:25 pm

Looks like a regular JDX/00 seat to me? It's got a 295 Kohler w/ a Walbro, maybe they wanted to test the DD before they had a free-air engine to put in it.

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