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"I hadn't heard about it on the radio when Milt told me," he says. "We sat and talked about it for a while. Milt was shocked, and so I was I. We both knew they were in financial trouble, and had been for quite a while, but I never expected them to toss in the towel and give up, which is what I think they did."
He keeps his focus on the company's glory days.
"I still think of IH, and wish they were No. 1," he says. "I wish the company had never been forced to sell, and had never gone out of business. They built some excellent machines and excellent tractors. There was the time they were a proud company."
Bill Vossler has written on a variety of collectible farm equipment, and is the author of Toy Farm Tractors, published last year.
"I think a big mistake a lot of people make is not reading the owner's manual. A lot of problems could be solved, or greatly reduced, if they would just read it."