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1966 ARCTIC CAT SNOWMOBILES
WERE SOLD AT
J. C. PENNEY STORES.
ABOVE PICTURES.



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


LET ME START BY SAYING THAT I'M NO EXPERT.
THIS IS MY OPINION.
FOREMOST SNOWMOBILES

WERE BUILT BY
ARCTIC CAT FOR J. C. PENNEY.
I BELIEVE THAT J. C. PENNEY SOLD 1967 AND 1968 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODELS.

THEY DID NOT HAVE 1965 AND 1966 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODELS.


THE ORIGINAL LIST PRICE WAS
$ 644.00 TO $ 666.00 FOR THE 1967 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODEL,
DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION OF THE STORE.
THEN....

THE ORIGINAL LIST PRICE WAS
$ 549.90 IN THE J. C. PENNEY 1967 CHRISTMAS CATALOG FOR THE
1968 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODEL.
THE ODD THING IS THAT THE

1968 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE AND SNOWMOBILE TILT TRAILER WERE $ 648.95 FOR
THE PACKAGE DEAL TOGETHER IN THE J. C. PENNEY 1967 CHRISTMAS CATALOG
BUT
IN 1 AD IN THE NEWSPAPERS IN FAIRBANKS ALASKA, HAD
THE PACKAGE DEAL FOR THE 1968 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE AND
SNOWMOBILE TILT TRAILER LISTED AT $ 766.00.
J. C. PENNEY SOLD ARCTIC CAT SNOWMOBILES IN SOME STORES,

IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS.
NOVEMBER 1965 TO FEBRUARY 1966 = 1966 ARCTIC CAT MODELS.
DECEMBER 1967 TO FEBRUARY 1968 = 1968 ARCTIC CAT MODELS.
DECEMBER 1968 TO FEBRUARY 1969 = 1969 ARCTIC CAT 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 the brand in question, usually it was not offered in that model year.

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 J. C. Penney Foremost snowmobile in the millions of pages of newspapers from
the 2 largest sites of archive newspapers.

What I did find is J. C. Penney selling 1966 Arctic Cat snowmobiles in
some of their stores in November, december 1965 and January 1966.

I asked the top of the lake museum where they got the info from that
their Foremost snowmobile was a 1966 and I was told the owner told them.

Without proof of a bill of sale written from September 1965 to March 1966 or
a 1966 Foremost brochure I cannot take that info as accurate.

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
that with the new info the first year of the foremost snowmobile is the 1967 model.

I am no expert on snowmobiles but someone who
has collected facts before me and made a judgement call.


J. C. Penney stores sold
1966 Arctic Cat snowmobiles
from September 1965 to March 1966.
J. C. Penney Foremost snowmobiles were sold in J. C. Penney stores

for 2 years from September 1966 to March 1968.
( 1967 Foremost model and 1968 Foremost model )
and then.....

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
WERE BUILT BY
ARCTIC CAT FOR J. C. PENNEY.

I BELIEVE THAT J. C. PENNEY SOLD 1967 AND 1968 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODELS.

THEY DID NOT HAVE 1965 AND 1966 FOREMOST SNOWMOBILE MODELS.


J. C. PENNEY SOLD ARCTIC CAT SNOWMOBILES, IN SOME STORES,
IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS.
SEPTEMBER 1965 TO FEBRUARY 1966 = 1966 ARCTIC CAT MODELS.
DECEMBER 1967 TO FEBRUARY 1968 = 1968 ARCTIC CAT MODELS.
DECEMBER 1968 TO FEBRUARY 1969 = 1969 ARCTIC CAT 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.

MORE INFORMATION ON
J. C. PENNEY STORES SELLING
ARCTIC CAT AND FOREMOST SNOWMOBILES
ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES.


 
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