Word: coots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footed clapper rails, Eskimo curlew, Puerto Rican parrot, American ivory-billed woodpecker and Northern and Southern red-cock-aded woodpeckers, Laysan and Nihoa finches, Bachman's and Kirtland's warblers, dusky seaside and Cape Sable sparrows, and Hawaii's duck, goose, hawk, stilt, crow, gallinule and coot...
...Coot sales were 1,800 last year and are expected to double this year - hardly enough to worry executives at Ford or Chevy. But the $1,595 Coot is the van guard of a new kind of car, the "off-the-road vehicle." At least 14 other...
Traction & Twist. The Coot was designed in 1964 by Carl Enos Jr., then an 18-year-old mechanic, as a utility vehicle for ranches. The car carries four passengers or 1,000 lbs. at 25 m.p.h...
body, keep it afloat like a boat. They are connected by a jointed shaft that per mits the Coot to flex with the terrain...
...months ago, Founder Enos and his partner, Robert Mauser, sold Coot, Inc. for just over $1,000,000 to Randtron, a new manufacturing conglomerate headquartered near San Francisco; Mauser and Enos stay on as president and vice president of the subsidiary. With 254 dealers throughout the U.S., and volume projected at $5,500,000, the company should show its first profit this year. "Off-the-road vehicles," says Mauser, "serve the purpose for which people used to keep horses: to be able to go off alone where automobiles cannot go. But you can keep the Coot in the garage...