Larry, The Darius Harms that you met is the public one that acts like the BIG MAN ON CAMPUS. Behind the scenes he is a lying coniving bastard. I nearly dropped my I&amp;I membership because of him, but if everyone that opposed him did that then he would have won and got his way.

Way back when I&amp;I, the Schaefers and HPOCA was trying to get HP #3 out of the smithsonian there were several pieces that had to come together.

There was a meeting of the HPOCA board and Harms to try to get it together. At that meeting the HPOCA board basically decided that they couldn't fund the project. So Harms goes behind the HPOCA board's back and calls Pete Markowski to get his approval to fund the project. Needless to say, at that point the HPOCA board and Darius Harms did not see eye to eye. Since then it has all been finger pointing and name calling.

Another thing that needs to be cleared up is Terry Allen's role in all of this. He has been blamed for everything and for the most part has shouldered the load. In truth, the Schaefers and Darius Harms pulled most of the strings on this project and HPOCA was powerless to do much once the tractor came out of the museum.

Darius Harms knows no limits when it comes to antique tractors and spending other peoples money. The I&amp;I club has just completed the purchase of another 61 acres at a cost of $175,000 in addition to the 30 acres we bought 2 years ago for $105,000. HP#3 is just another example of Harm's largess with other people's money.