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There where hus skis and diablos coming and going in every direction ! it was awesome

The hus ski 50th anniversary was definitely a fun day I remember it well and I would look forward to a 60th celebration if there was to be one.
here are some pic from that event

These pictures are of the NOS skis and runners. Cleaned up and ready to be used.

For the seat, I traced a new piece of plywood from an original seat. Installed new T nuts for the bolts, painted the wood red and gave it a coat of varnish to seal it. Then I sent it to a professional upholstery shop along with an original seat so they could duplicate the stitching pattern. It turne...

It’s been a very busy summer and I haven’t had too much time to work on this hus-ski. I have made some progress. I did fit all the body parts together and everything fits nicely but that’s all I have completed on the body so far. I did not have time for media blasting and painting. I got the seat an...

these final pictures are showing the tips of the runners and the acorn nuts and how they are different from each other.

new carriage bolts, new rivets and washers and 3 coats of varnish. In the following pictures you can clearly see the discrepancy in the location of the rivets. Also in one of these pictures there is a misdrilled hole in the ski for a rivet.

I was refurbishing a pair of original skis with the original runners still on them. I removed the runners to re-varnish the skis and replace the rivets and carriage bolts. The reason I was replacing the rivets was not because they were worn but because they were extremely rusty and were about to fai...

This is a picture of the Hus-ski that was used with the race sleigh although in this picture it has a standard sleigh. The fellow in this picture worked at the Hus-ski factory in Montreal (although I don’t believe he is the person who actually raced this Hus-ski??). Also, it appears to have a 400 ho...

Looks like perfect snow conditions , perfect weather , beautiful trails , awesome sleds... it doesn't get better then that! As to which looks better in flight, that's a tough one to call. Both pictures are worthy of a magazine cover!