Model Year 1964: The ill-fated Comet Sno-Traveler, Polaris' first high-volume attempt to produce a forward-mounted snowmobile (designed to better compete with the Arctic Cat Model 100).  A Polaris dealer at the time, TAS produced a number of component parts for the Comet in the summer of 1963 and it's was Polaris' large demand for such that convinced TAS' founders to enter the tracked snowmobile business for themselves.  Later, unrelated design and reliability issues would doom the Comet (nearly ruining all of Polaris in the process) and helped create an opening for TAS' own revolutionary fiberglass snowmobile, the Scorpion. See related transcript. Polaris brochure. See Terms of use. Link to Home.