Years ago, back when I was single, I shared a house with the Chief
Engineer of chassis at International Harvester. They had just started
building the Scout. It had a folding windshield and they all seemed to
leak in a hard rain. Heck, they even leaked in high humidity.
One day Lee came home mad as heck. Seems a farmer had bought a new
scout with folding windshield, and you guessed it, it leaked.
He took it to the local binder dealer for a fix. After the "fix' he
wrote a real hate letter to I.H. and that was what my roomie was ticked about.
Seems the dealer had taken a big punch and a hammer and knocked 4 holes
in the floorboards on passenger and driver side.
Says the dealer, "there, it's fixed".
Shortly afterwards the folding windshield was dropped from the design.
Larry Dent
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