montynormand
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eye candy
Just a few SRX's that I drool over!
1974 Yamaha SRX.."the pancake" was only build one year, (4and only for racing, each sled was valued at over $20,000,(unheard of in 1973-74) everything was put together by hand..The tiny sleds were so light...yamaha had to add weight to them to make them race legal...it's believe all but one were destroyed after the racing season, Lynn Trapp, Ed Schubitzke, and Larry Omans drove them. (One was spare, until Larry wrecked his, causing yamaha officials to cringe, as $20,000 went down the drain).
The 1982 SRX was one of those sleds that never really happened. Following the complete style change starting with the 1981 440, Yamaha was looking to make the SRX the definitive lake runner it had been in 1978. Handful of SRX 500's were put into the field for testing & in the end the new 500 motor proved to have the potential to be a hand grenade. Instead of putting a liability nightmare into production, Yamaha pulled the plug on the SRX 500 although it had already been announced in the pre-season ad campaigns. It was bad enough that after 1982 Yamaha opted to not use the SRX name & introduced the V-Max. The few 1982 SRX's that had been put into the hands of test riders & racers of the day wereallegedly recalled & destroyed. As we all know, that type of project is seldom executed as planned.
Just a few SRX's that I drool over!
1974 Yamaha SRX.."the pancake" was only build one year, (4and only for racing, each sled was valued at over $20,000,(unheard of in 1973-74) everything was put together by hand..The tiny sleds were so light...yamaha had to add weight to them to make them race legal...it's believe all but one were destroyed after the racing season, Lynn Trapp, Ed Schubitzke, and Larry Omans drove them. (One was spare, until Larry wrecked his, causing yamaha officials to cringe, as $20,000 went down the drain).
The 1982 SRX was one of those sleds that never really happened. Following the complete style change starting with the 1981 440, Yamaha was looking to make the SRX the definitive lake runner it had been in 1978. Handful of SRX 500's were put into the field for testing & in the end the new 500 motor proved to have the potential to be a hand grenade. Instead of putting a liability nightmare into production, Yamaha pulled the plug on the SRX 500 although it had already been announced in the pre-season ad campaigns. It was bad enough that after 1982 Yamaha opted to not use the SRX name & introduced the V-Max. The few 1982 SRX's that had been put into the hands of test riders & racers of the day wereallegedly recalled & destroyed. As we all know, that type of project is seldom executed as planned.
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