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Remember the last time you saw a Nash Snowmopolitan? Was it the late ’60s when the kids were little and Dick and Nona had one up at their winter cabin? Or maybe it was on TV–one of the last episodes of Arcticman, caped hero of the Northland.

If the vehicle looks familiar, it’s because builders Tommy Huttunen and Steve Anderson did a fine job of merging snowmobile parts into a cute little road car. Huttunen always thought a Metropolitan’s front end looked like a snow vehicle, so a rusty one sitting in a back yard got his wheels turning.

The lower half was too rotted to restore but Huttunen’s an experienced mechanic, Anderson is a skilled welder and fabricator and some other friends have a snowmobile salvage place. It all fit together… with two years’ work. A Yamaha 700 triple provides the juice–probably twice what the stock Nash had.

As cool looking as this rig is, once it was all together and out on the Alaska snowfields–the builders live in Anchorage–Huttunen decided the most drama to be had from this hybrid was a spectacular crash. Wrecking it or himself was not among his plans. He put it up on eBay and some fan of … whatever you’d call this thing … snapped it up.

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