IH Scout recognized as an Official American Icon

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IH Scout recognized as an official American icon

this morning us congressman tim walz of the 1st dist. Minnesota along with some of his colleagues officially recognized the Scout as the American icon that it is. They entered into the congressional record a history of the Scout and the passion it brings out in folks who love a piece of American history. This was to happen earlier in the week and John Glancy president of Scout light line and Super Scout Specialists and john's brother dave were set to attend the event in washington dc. However they are debating a defense spending bill this week so the time was very limited when this took place during the us house of representatives special orders time. So congressman walz read a brief statement regarding this and then he May do the official reading of the history and some stories after they return from recess in the next month or two according to sara severs communications director for mr. Walz. The special orders sessions are filmed on c-span so click on the link and scroll down under transcripts and click on mr walz toward the bottom.

house session - c-span video library

We hope to put together a small delegation of Scout owners to attend the event at the capital if it is held later in the summer. We also want to thank Jeff bade for his help with this.

For more information about this please follow the link below to the binder planets posting on this.

IH Scout to be recognized as an official American icon - binder planet forums
 
Not only that, Mike, it went by a little fast. I wonder how many times the speaker breathed when he rolled it out like he tanked up on coffee that morning.

No whoopdeedo nor a large audience. It least it didn't go unrecorded. However, I'm afraid this means that the Scout is going to be sought after and cause prices to go up on them.

My question is, why was the Scout and not the Jeep picked as the official icon (even though the cj>wrangler has never ceased production and continues to be made as the jk these days)? Did it have to do with being historical rather than something that is current, like studebakers and so on?

Just curious...

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