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YOU FIND GREAT HISTORICAL INFO ON THIS SITE THAT YOU WON'T FIND ELSEWHERE. 24 YEARS OF PROVIDING VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE HISTORY. FEBRUARY AND MARCH 2026 DONATION DRIVE PAGE 10 J. C. PENNEY FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE HISTORY. SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN THE PAGE TO SEE INFORMATION ON THIS SNOWMOBILE. 
ORIGINAL
LIST PRICE WAS
1967
J. C. PENNEY FOREMOST SNOWMOBILES
BELOW PICTURES. FOREMOST SNOWMOBILES BELOW WERE SOLD AT J. C. PENNEY STORES IN THE FALL OF 1966 TO MARCH 1968 AS... 1967 FOREMOST AND 1968 FOREMOST MODELS. 
J.
C. PENNEY FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE
THEY
DID
NOT HAVE 1965 AND 1966
FOREMOST
SNOWMOBILE
MODELS.
DECEMBER 1972 TO FEBRUARY 1973 = 1973 ARCTIC CAT MODELS. DECEMBER 1973 TO FEBRUARY 1974 = 1974 ARCTIC CAT MODELS. AND SOME STORES CARRIED THE 1975 MODELS I THINK. IF ANYONE HAS A BILL OF SALE FROM J. C. PENNEY FROM SEPTEMBER 1965 TO MARCH 1966, FOR A J. C. PENNEY FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE, PLEASE SEND ME A COPY AND I WILL CORRECT THIS INFORMATION. FIRST I CONTACTED PEOPLE ON EBAY WHO WERE SELLING J. C. PENNEY CATALOGS FOR THE 1965 FALL AND WINTER ( SEPTEMBER 1965 TO MARCH 1966 ) THIS REQUEST INCLUDED THE 1965 CHRISTMAS CATALOG AS WELL AND THERE ARE NO SNOWMOBILES IN THESE CATALOGS. I'm doing a rewrite of the history of the J. C. Penney Foremost snowmobile. Each year I look into a few brands and sometimes I correct the information. There is a lot of information that is wrong on certain brands and it just keeps getting repeated. As you know, when new snowmobiles are advertised in the fall of 1965, it is for the 1966 models on the dealer showroom floor. When
I looked into the newspapers in fall of 1965, if there are no ads for
I have seen people list the J C Penney Foremost snowmobile as a 1965 or a 1966 model. People say it was only offered for 1 year and there were only 200 produced. People have signs with their sleds using information that they read on the internet or saw at a museum or show. ========== In
the last 2 months I checked the newspapers from
September 1965 to March 1966 and
found no ads for the
What
I did find is J. C. Penney selling 1966 Arctic
Cat snowmobiles in
I
asked the top of the lake museum where they got the info from that their
Without
proof of a bill of sale written from September 1965 to March 1966 or
In the fall of 1966, the ads start in the newspapers for 1967 J. C. Penney Foremost snowmobiles. I
asked Pierre Pellerin what he thought of my findings and he also agrees
I
am no expert on snowmobiles but someone who has
1. in some stores, J. C. Penney started selling Arctic cat again in December 1967 with the 1968 Arctic Cat Model year. and then..... 2. in some stores, J. C. Penney started selling Arctic cat again in the fall of 1968 with the 1969 Arctic Cat Model year. David S. 
J. C. PENNEY FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE FOREMOST
SNOWMOBILES
I BELIEVE THAT J. C. PENNEY SOLD 1967 AND 1968 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODELS. THEY
DID
NOT HAVE 1965 AND 1966
FOREMOST
SNOWMOBILE MODELS.
DECEMBER 1972 TO FEBRUARY 1973 = 1973 ARCTIC CAT MODELS. DECEMBER 1973 TO FEBRUARY 1974 = 1974 ARCTIC CAT MODELS. AND SOME STORES CARRIED THE 1975 MODELS I THINK.
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