Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders

With its glamorless name and ungraceful looks, the Coot should be about as seductive to car buyers as two steel tubs hung between four large tires —which is just what it is. It is also the smartest thing on wheels to a growing corps of Coot fanciers. They drive it through mud, up mountains, across lakes and into woods, all the places conventional vehicles cannot roll. They use it to hunt, fish, mend fences, find stranded sheep and haul fertilizer. The vehicle is also put into service by federal forest rangers and by a dozen law enforcement agencies for...

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