Who doesn’t love fast machines?! And who doesn’t love snow?! Put the two together and you get snowmobiles. Author- Matt Scheff begins this book in the Speed Machines series with a high action description of the Winter X Games snocross race naming Tucker Hibbert a 6 time winner.  From there, Scheff tells about the first snowmobile. It was a Model T Ford, in 1913, in which someone had replaced the front wheels with skis and put tracks around the rear wheels. In 1922, Canadian Joseph-Armand Bombardier built his own snowmobile. He later started Ski-Doo. The first modern snowmobile came out in 1956, up until then they were modified cars.

Safety equipment is important.  This equipment includes: helmets, body armor, and a kill switch for stopping the machine in the event a driver falls off the snowmobile.

Snowmobiles are used for fun, work, and rescues in snow country.

Fast Facts- bits of trivia, are sprinkled eight times throughout the book. The book is more photos than text, but the photos grab action seekers attention.