My Mom and Dad Got me a 1975 Scorpion Brut 340 for my 11th birthday in 1979. Bank repo with 500 miles, paid the banker 400 bucks for it. Best birthday ever! Had to sell it when we moved from North Dakota to South Carolina. 😔 I'm 54 now and I will never forget the thrill of that machine . I've had Harleys, Open class motocross bikes, Corvettes and a Yamaha R1 but nothing was ever as fun to me as that sled. (Except my Wife 😇🤣)
OK, friend your bringing back my early teenage memories here. My dad bought a new 1972 440 triple Brut. That one had only a dash mounted radiator. It would heat up a bit during warmer days and slow riding. The next year he traded it for a new 1973 440, which had the newer tunnel cooling lines. As I got to ride them both, the 72 was a little hard to corner with, the 73 handling was improved. I remember the story on the 2 Polaris boys who engineered these sleds. They needed that 295 2 cyl for the Winnepeg to St Paul 500 race. Later on 19??, Scorpion bought them out?
My father was a Polaris dealer in the 60s all the way too 1980. During that time sold brute sleds for one season in 1974. He rode one personally for one season. I remember that sled was really fast.
Dear sir thank you once again for an outstanding video! I never saw or heard of a brute . Did they win any championships? My cousin had a scorpion with a triple in it when i. Was around 7 or 8 years old,, but i think he got it from a motorcycle and mounted it himself. He had it up in the air inside of his garage one christmas hanging from the rafters on chains and started the motor up to let me hear it. It was pretty loud and i can remember my uncle coming out and yelling at him to turn it off because he was smoking out the house inside. Then my cousin snapped back at him to open a window! I would never dare tell my folks that. My uncle was super cool god bless his soul. All three of his boys had machines and one of them was my first ride that was the start of sled infatuation. My cousin was a soldier who went to nam around that time so i would not Always see him every winter during holiday visits so i am unsure of how that machine performed. Way to fast for an eight year old so maybe that was a good thing lol!
I had a 1974 Brut 295,... it was a good sled,... I think it was topped out at 60 mph,.... but it would do that from the middle of your driveway.. to the mailbox,... they were quick,... mine didn't turn as hard to the left,... as it did to the right,... you could hold the throttle wide open (on the lake),...and turn just a little to the left,...and then straighten the ski's back out,...and that thing would do a 180 degree turn so fast it'd make your head spin,... an excellant oval sled,... had to keep oil in the slide assy,...steel on rubber there,... the snow helpped,........ when you hear a group of sled's coming,... you alway's listened for the.... bruuuup,... it meant someone had a 440 Brut.........
I rode a 440 triple Brut, it was good. But i think my 74 Chaparral 440 SSX was faster. The brut track was a kind of poly without any windows to let snow in for lubrication so the steel slides got hot, especially like on really hardpack snow or ice. As i recall there was grease zerks on the rails with some holes in the rails to grease the track sliding surface. If they had went to a convention rubber track with hyfax on the rails would have been good. But yeah otherwise it was a good fast machine.
My Mom and Dad Got me a 1975 Scorpion Brut 340 for my 11th birthday in 1979.
Bank repo with 500 miles, paid the banker 400 bucks for it. Best birthday ever!
Had to sell it when we moved from North Dakota to South Carolina. 😔
I'm 54 now and I will never forget the thrill of that machine . I've had Harleys, Open class motocross bikes, Corvettes and a Yamaha R1 but nothing was ever as fun to me as that sled.
(Except my Wife 😇🤣)
I'm glad I'm not a Polaris guy. Thanks for sharing Vlad 👍and greetings from Bemidji
OK, friend your bringing back my early teenage memories here. My dad bought a new 1972 440 triple Brut. That one had only a dash mounted radiator. It would heat up a bit during warmer days and slow riding. The next year he traded it for a new 1973 440, which had the newer tunnel cooling lines. As I got to ride them both, the 72 was a little hard to corner with, the 73 handling was improved. I remember the story on the 2 Polaris boys who engineered these sleds. They needed that 295 2 cyl for the Winnepeg to St Paul 500 race. Later on 19??, Scorpion bought them out?
I remember the 3 cylinder model. Mean looking machine
My father was a Polaris dealer in the 60s all the way too 1980. During that time sold brute sleds for one season in 1974. He rode one personally for one season. I remember that sled was really fast.
Wow! Another machine that had special features I never new of! Very historical machine! 📕
Dear sir thank you once again for an outstanding video! I never saw or heard of a brute . Did they win any championships? My cousin had a scorpion with a triple in it when i. Was around 7 or 8 years old,, but i think he got it from a motorcycle and mounted it himself. He had it up in the air inside of his garage one christmas hanging from the rafters on chains and started the motor up to let me hear it. It was pretty loud and i can remember my uncle coming out and yelling at him to turn it off because he was smoking out the house inside. Then my cousin snapped back at him to open a window! I would never dare tell my folks that. My uncle was super cool god bless his soul. All three of his boys had machines and one of them was my first ride that was the start of sled infatuation. My cousin was a soldier who went to nam around that time so i would not Always see him every winter during holiday visits so i am unsure of how that machine performed. Way to fast for an eight year old so maybe that was a good thing lol!
It was all Sno Twisters where I lived .
I had a 1974 Brut 295,... it was a good sled,... I think it was topped out at 60 mph,.... but it would do that from the middle of your driveway.. to the mailbox,... they were quick,... mine didn't turn as hard to the left,... as it did to the right,... you could hold the throttle wide open (on the lake),...and turn just a little to the left,...and then straighten the ski's back out,...and that thing would do a 180 degree turn so fast it'd make your head spin,... an excellant oval sled,... had to keep oil in the slide assy,...steel on rubber there,... the snow helpped,........ when you hear a group of sled's coming,... you alway's listened for the.... bruuuup,... it meant someone had a 440 Brut.........
How the hell do you get to the exhaust?
I rode a 440 triple Brut, it was good. But i think my 74 Chaparral 440 SSX was faster. The brut track was a kind of poly without any windows to let snow in for lubrication so the steel slides got hot, especially like on really hardpack snow or ice. As i recall there was grease zerks on the rails with some holes in the rails to grease the track sliding surface. If they had went to a convention rubber track with hyfax on the rails would have been good. But yeah otherwise it was a good fast machine.