The Search For a Long Lost Polaris Jeep

by Ryan Honl

No, it’s not a Jeep that Polaris built, although Polaris certainly does make plenty of utility vehicles these days, including for the military. The Jeep we’re talking about is one that the newly formed Polaris company used in 1954 before the first snowmobile was produced. If you’ve seen it by chance or know anything about it, there’s an intense search for it.

Shane Miller, of the Austin Bantam Society, contacted the newspaper about the search for the Polaris vehicle after he found a photo showing it sitting in front of Hetteen Hoist and Derrick in Roseau. That business renamed its...