Posted By: James
Sold my 1993 Skidoo Skandic cheap - 06/18/21 05:45 PM
The snowmachine didn't have anything wrong with it, no collision dents or parts needing replacement. Only 1,200 miles. It was an outdated two-stroke model, obsolete in comparison with current model snowmachines. But the make and model still have their fans.
The big drawback to my snowmachine was that it had been sitting in place outside our house for eight or nine years, since I'd retired it along with myself from running a short-line wilderness trapline.
A young guy from our son's old church in Anchorage (our son moved to Idaho) heard that I wanted to sell the machine, and asked how much. I told him $600--IF he could get it running and out of my backyard.
So he came over with a friend and they tinkered with it. Half hour later I hear the sound of a two-stroke engine fire up outside my office window. A few minutes later came a knock on the front door.
"How much do you want for it?" The guy asks, looking down. We both knew that my Skandic, now that it was running, was worth more than six hundred dollars.
"Six hundred," I told him. HIs face lit up. It's like people don't even expect you to keep your word these days.
Turned out he wanted the machine to take his little kids ice-fishing. I miss the machine, and the years it took me trapping.
Jim
The big drawback to my snowmachine was that it had been sitting in place outside our house for eight or nine years, since I'd retired it along with myself from running a short-line wilderness trapline.
A young guy from our son's old church in Anchorage (our son moved to Idaho) heard that I wanted to sell the machine, and asked how much. I told him $600--IF he could get it running and out of my backyard.
So he came over with a friend and they tinkered with it. Half hour later I hear the sound of a two-stroke engine fire up outside my office window. A few minutes later came a knock on the front door.
"How much do you want for it?" The guy asks, looking down. We both knew that my Skandic, now that it was running, was worth more than six hundred dollars.
"Six hundred," I told him. HIs face lit up. It's like people don't even expect you to keep your word these days.
Turned out he wanted the machine to take his little kids ice-fishing. I miss the machine, and the years it took me trapping.
Jim
