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Edgar Hetteen

Posted at 11:25 AM on February 14, 2011 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Icons, Regional history

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Edgar Hetteen has died, the Star Tribune reports.

He started a company that made newfangled machines called snowmobiles.

Here's a profile of the man that MPR News did in 2004.

Here's a piece Twin Cities Business Journal did on him a few years ago.

Photo: Original Polaris partners (l-r): David Johnson, Allan Hetteen and Edgar Hetteen. Source: Polaris

Comments (1)

A friend here in southern California has a Polaris motorcycle customized with the painting of a shark.

Posted by Jim Shapiro | February 14, 2011 1:52 PM

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