WHY
DOES DAVID'S VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE PAGE EXIST?
SEE
ANSWER BELOW.
JANUARY
11 - 2006
GERMAIN
BEAUSÉJOUR ( WHITE SHIRT BACK )
CLAUDE
GENDRON ( FRONT )
HERE
IS A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ON DAVID'S VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE PAGE.
FOR
THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW, I HAVE HEALTH
ISSUES
AND HAVE NOT BEEN WELL FOR A LONG TIME.
I
STARTED THIS SITE BACK IN MARCH 2002. ONE DAY I WENT ONTO THE WEB
TO FIND A PICTURE
OF
A 1970 SKI DOO OLYMPIQUE 335. THIS WAS MY FIRST SNOWMOBILE AND TO
MY SURPRISE,
I
COULD NOT FIND A PICTURE.
I
THOUGHT THAT WITH THE INTERNET, I WOULD SURELY FIND TONS OF PICTURES OF
VINTAGE
SNOWMOBILES
BUT THERE WERE ONLY A FEW SITES WITH LIMITED PICTURES OF CERTAIN SLEDS.
SINCE
I HAD SEVERAL BROCHURES, I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF
TO
TRY TO PUT TOGETHER A WEB PAGE FOR VINTAGE SNOWMOBILES.
AFTER
A FEW MONTHS OF POSTING PICTURES, MY SITE FINALLY APPEARED IN THE GOOGLE
SEARCH
ENGINE
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN JUNE 2002. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET YOUR
PAGE POSTED BY SUBMITTING YOUR SITE TO GOOGLE.
I
WENT ONTO EBAY AND STARTED TO POST PICTURES OF BROCHURES THAT WERE FOR
SALE
ON
EBAY BUT IN MOST CASES, THEY WERE POOR QUALITY PICTURES AND NOT IMPRESSIVE.
IN
SEVERAL CASES, I HAD THE WRONG YEAR POSTED FOR THE SLEDS AS MANY
OF
THE BROCHURES ON EBAY WERE POSTED WITH THE WRONG YEAR.
ENTER
CLAUDE GENDRON.
ONE
DAY I GET AN EMAIL FROM CLAUDE GENDRON ASKING ME IF I MIND GETTING SOME
HELP
WITH
THE YEARS OF THE SLEDS POSTED ON MY SITE. I SAID SURE GO AHEAD.
I
COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY MISTAKES I HAD MADE
WITH
THE MODEL YEARS POSTED WITH THE PICTURES.
CLAUDE
TOLD ME ONE DAY TO BE PROUD OF THE SITE AND WORK HARD AT POSTING THE RIGHT
YEAR
AS SOME PEOPLE WILL IDENTIFY THEIR SLED BY THE PICTURES ON MY SITE AND
LEAVE
WITH
THE WRONG INFORMATION.
AT
THE TIME CLAUDE TOLD ME THIS, I WAS NOT WELL AT ALL AND FOUND CORRECTING
THE
MISTAKES
ON MY SITE A GREAT JOB BUT HE ENCOURAGED ME TO MOVE FORWARD WHICH IS
WHAT
I DID.
CLAUDE
DECIDED TO HELP ME BY COMPOSING THESE GREAT LIST OF
THE
HISTORY OF THE VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE
AND
THE YEARS THEY WERE PRODUCED AND WHERE THEY WERE MADE.
HE
PUT IN HUNDREDS OF HOURS CREATING THESE LISTS AND IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN
THEM
YOU
SHOULD HAVE A LOOK AT THEM AS THEY ARE A WEALTH OF INFO AND I KNOW THOUSANDS
OF
PEOPLE
GO TO THEM EVERY WEEK TO GET THE CORRECT INFO AND HAVE GREAT READING TOO.
WITH
HIS HELP AND MOTIVATION, I CONTINUED WITH THE SITE AND I CAN HONESTLY TELL
YOU
THAT
WITHOUT CLAUDE HELPING ME THROUGH HARD TIMES, THIS SITE WOULD NOT EXIST.
IN
JUNE OF 2003, CLAUDE ENCOURAGED ME TO GO WITH HIM TO MY FIRST VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE
SHOW
AT WHICH TIME HE INTRODUCED ME TO GERMAIN
BEAUSÉJOUR. SEE
PICTURE ABOVE.
I
MET GERMAIN AND TALKED TO HIM FOR A FEW MINUTES AND WENT ON TO SEE THE
SLEDS AT THE
SHOW.
CLAUDE TOLD GERMAIN THAT I HAD A VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE SITE ON THE NET AND
TOLD
HIM
TO CHECK IT OUT.
A
FEW DAYS AFTER THE SHOW, I GOT AN EMAIL FROM GERMAIN TELLING ME THAT HE
HAD
A
BUNCH OF BROCHURES THAT HE WAS GOING TO LEND TO ME TO POST ON THE SITE.
I
HAD ONLY SPENT A FEW MINUTES WITH HIM AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ME BUT
WAS
WILLING TO LEND ME THE BROCHURES FOR THE GOOD OF THE SPORT.
WELL,
THE REST IS HISTORY. AFTER I GOT TO GERMAINS TO PICK UP THE BROCHURES,
HE
SHOWED ME HIS SLEDS AND I COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW DEDICATED HE WAS TO THE
SPORT.
I
TOOK THE BROCHURES HOME AND SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS SCANNING THEM AND RETURNED
THEM
TO
GERMAIN AS QUICK AS I COULD AS I DID NOT WANT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO HIS
BROCHURES.
I
HAVE BUILT A GREAT FRIENDSHIP WITH BOTH GERMAIN AND CLAUDE AND WANT YOU
TO
KNOW THAT EVERY TIME YOU VISIT MY SITE, YOU
ARE DOING SO BECAUSE OF THESE 2 MEN.
I
HAVE RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF EMAILS FROM PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD THANKING
ME FOR THE
GREAT
JOB I HAVE DONE WITH THIS SITE BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT WITHOUT CLAUDE
AND GERMAIN
HELPING
ME THROUGH HARD TIMES, THE PICTURES AND INFO YOU FIND HERE WOULD NOT BE
HERE.
IF
ANYONE WANTS TO THANK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
THIS
SITE APPEARING ON THE NET, HERE ARE THEIR EMAILS BELOW.
I
KNOW IT SOUNDS SILLY BUT THEY DESERVE A HUGE THANKS AS MUCH AS I DO.
I
AM JUST A MESSENGER, THEY WERE THE DRIVING FORCE TO THIS SITES SUCCESS.
FOR
THE RECORD, THIS PAST YEAR,
THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CAME TO MY SITE MORE THAN DOUBLED.
I
JUST CANNOT BELIEVE HOW POPULAR VINTAGE SNOWMOBILES HAVE BECOME BUT THANKS
TO THE
LIKES
OF GERMAIN, CLAUDE AND THE MANY PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE PERSONAL PICTURES AND
BROCHURES,
IT HAS BECOME A PLACE WHERE MANY OF YOU START YOUR DAY BEFORE WORK.
YOU
CAN CONTACT GERMAIN AT ........ gbcollection@hotmail.com
YOU
CAN CONTACT CLAUDE AT .......... jdc.gendron@videotron.ca
MANY
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO THIS SITE.
I
WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK ANDY TAYLOR
FOR HIS GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GROWTH
OF
THIS SITE AND FOR HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE SNOWMOBILE FIELD. ANDY SPENT
SEVERAL YEARS
AT
NORTHWAY SNOWMOBILES.
HAVE
A GREAT DAY!
DAVID
