International Harvester was very diversified

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I had not previously known that they made kitchen appliances.
This ad is from Life magazine, in 1949.

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The fridge in Monica’s apartment on Friends was an IH from around 1950 and still worked. Kept drinks cold for the cast and crew.

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I bought an I-H chest freezer justlike the one in the ad in the latr 60s and got more than 20 years out of it in my garage. I got rid of it not because it stopped running , but because my 4’ 11” wife was no longer agile to reach the bottom of it. It did quit briefly because the fan quit but a little oil on the fan shaft fixed that. I went to the I-pH dealer to try to get a gasket for the lid and the guy at the counter told me that I-H never made freezers and an old voice from the back room said “Oh yes we did.”

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I had the same situation at my local Harley Davidson Dealership, but not a single one of them, not even the “old hands” knew that Harley Davidson, owned and operated the Holiday Ramble Recreation Vehicle Division from the mid ‘80s until the mid ‘90s. They competed primarily in the mid to premium segment of the recreational vehicle market when the company was sold to Monaco Coach Corporation


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Gives new meaning to the license plate holder that says, “My other vehicles is also a Harley
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And horrors of horrors Harley Davidson also made Golf Carts.

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And now you can get a new Scout (in 2027)

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And snowmobiles!

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Yes, but VW bought the name, and VW makes these EVs.

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A gal I was dating in the mid 80’s had a Scout. Big and heavy with horrible gas mileage! She wanted better economy and bought a little Rabbit. She gave the Scout to her mother who lived in the NC mountains.

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Before anyone else mentions it, I am aware that, many years ago, GM made Frigidaire appliances, Ford owned Philco, Nash was the owner of Kelvinator, and Chrysler made Airtemp A/Cs. And, Studebaker was the owner of Gravely–as well as some other companies–so all of the automakers were diversified at one time.

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Did she get the Diesel Rabbit.

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International Harvester made cars long before Scouts and Travelettes
 A 1909 Model A

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For its time, the IH Scout wasn’t considered to be a big vehicle. Is it possible that she had an IH Travelall? The Travelall was a big vehicle.

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This is an IH Scout.

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It’s funny you mention that! She had me test drive a D Rabbit. I told her “It can’t get out of it’s own way!” She ended up getting a gas Rabbit.

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They weren’t very fast, but they got 50+mpg

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That’s putting it mildly. The numbers I have show a ‘79 Rabbit diesel 0-60 in 21.3 seconds (almost the same as the quater mile time, 22.2), the gas version in 11.8.

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This girl I worked with owned a D Rabbit. We walked out to the parking lot after work one day and it was dark so I really couldn’t tell what car she was driving. When she started it up and got out to brush the snow off I said - “I sure hope that’s a Diesel engine. If not, it’s got some serious problems.”

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True, my Scout was smaller than the K5 Blazers. We did not worry about gas mileage, just if we could get up the next hill.

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