Longtime Polaris snowmobile dealer passes away; sold 160 sleds annually at peak

Sad news out of The Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton, Michigan, which reports of the passing of longtime Polaris dealership owner Jack Poynter.

Poynter played an integral role in the growth of snowmobiling in the Copper Country, growing Dan’s Polaris into a dealership that sold over 160 Polaris snowmobiles a year at its peak, tops in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula at the time.

Read about Poynter’s later success with Polaris ATVs and PWC in the article here.