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The TAS 300 also has a 5-gallon gas tank in the front belly pan, and a detachable fiberglass black hood with twin red stripes. With a steel tunnel this sled came in at about 300 lbs.
The brakes consisted of a leaver and pad pushing against the driven clutch, while the sled was 30.5-inches wide with a ski stance of 29 inches. That made it easy to take exploring off trail.
Scorpion used this engine again in 1969, but the cost and the application just didn’t work out. Yet Scorpion was a popular Midwest brand, having 136 dealers just in Minnesota at that time. To be a dealer you only had to buy 3 Scorpions and a few parts. For that Trail-A Sled gave you a 10-mile radius exclusive selling area. Those were the days!
Minnesotan Les Pinz is a vintage sled expert with an extensive collection. He is a former snowmobile racer, a member of the International Snowmobile Hall of Fame and an AmSnow
test rider.