Nice video, alot of slight mistakes, might want to take a look at the International Scout Encyclopedia book available online from several Scout parts vendors to improve your research
Nice job. I only wish you would have included the Travel-All as well. Btw... in the 1972 film Deliverance, the protagonists are driving a 1970 olive/white Scout with their canoe on top. Also, in the 1993 comedy Grumpy Old Men, Walther Matthau's character drives a 1974 IH Travel-All.
Every wire in a 60-65 scout is green and the lug nuts on the driver side come off backwards and there is no fuse box so if the wipers quit working then go buy a switch for them and the 4 cylinder motor is exactly a V8 cut in half. It actually uses a V8 distributor but every other terminal on the cap has a blank area where the terminal should be and the reason people say that they are bulletproof is cause they don’t have enough power to break any thing on it. And every single bolt on them has ( I H ) raised letters on the head of it cause International was so proud of them and the IH stands for International Harvester . There’s your break down on the Scout that they won’t tell you
I have 2 Scouts; 66’ & 76’ Terra. You should definitely get the Scout Encyclopedia. If you bought a tractor from IH you could get a free Scout lol. Love Scouts!
Really loved the Scout! Always liked the styling so much more than Jeep. I was born too late, by the time I was able to drive they stopped making them. Used Scouts in New Jersey were few and far between. Great video. I learned so much! Thanks!
The Scout 80 also offered bucket front seats and a rear seat option. The differences to the 800 model were non-folding windshield, wipers at base of the windshield, a redesigned instrument panel and some different engine options to name the basics. Two tone was always available since 1961.
Had a 70 800a 196ci 3spd . Did a slight lift, meaty off road rubber, and smiled every time I drove it. Wish I still had it. Bought it in 75 for 2500, only 20k. It came with a plow which I sold to buy the wheels/tires lots of muddy miles. Only got stuck once, it was half way up the drivers door in mud, but got pulled out by another scout.....ahhh yes
The Scouts really gained a loyal following. When I was researching Jeeps, the flame wars in the forums between Scout & Jeep owners got heated...to say the least. I ended up with neither and went for a Toyota Tacoma and never looked back. Now, as I understand, from watching TFL channel, it seems that VW purchased the rights to the Scout name. They are supposed to be coming out with a Scout body style electric vehicle. It looks cool so far. I'm not onboard with electric vehicles, yet. They need to make better batteries before I'll take a look. I think hydrogen is cool, but there's just no real infrastructure yet, outside of California. Anyway, good luck with your brother's restoration project. I'm sure the end result will be well worth it. Definitely, very cool vehicles.
My brother-in-law worked for the International Harvester's small truck division which included the Scout. At some point the Scout broke off and became an independent division, located in Plano, Texas. Apparently the Scout employees in Plano formed a sort of communal community where they all lived almost side by side, and knew each other by their first names. My sister said it was like living in Utopia, until the strike in the 80's, quickly pitted the union and nonunion employees against each other. I don't know if the union went on strike, or threatened a strike, regardless, one morning International lock their doors and shut down the plant for good. At the same time another large company in Plano also shut it's doors making it virtually impossible to find work or worse, sell your house. My sister and her husband, like most employees, had to walk away from their homes.
That sucks! I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your sister and brother-in-law but thank you for sharing. Stories like this remind me how much I take things for granted and make me more greatful for what I have.
@bulvie603 What a wild and inaccurate distortion of facts. Alternate reality! No, Scout did not break off into an independent division in Plano, Texas. Scouts were built in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from the first day of production, December 12, 1960 (as a '61 model) to the last day October 21, 1980. In the late '70s, production of Scouts became a subdivision of the Motor Truck Division called the Scout Division and at the end had changed to the Sport Utility Division. I have a list of IH plants from the era and don't see one in Texas, let alone Plano, but in the event something IH-related was there, it had nothing to do with Scout. In '78, '79 and part of '80, IH operated an experimental fiberglass lab in Midland, Texas, run by Leo Windecker and they were experimenting on building fibergoass bodies for trucks and Scouts. Good Times Incorporated, an independent van conversion company, did custom upfitting to Scouts in Arlington (between Dallas and Forth Worth) for a short while under contract to the Scout Southwestern Sales Office, eventually procuring a big contract to IH corporate contingent on them relocating to Fort Wayne. They renamed themselves CVI (Custom Vehicles Incorporated ) and upfittied thousand of Scouts for IH before the doors were closed.
@@bulvie603 Sorry your brother has passed but had he "stuck to that story" it still would have been incorrect by orders of magnitude. For someone who doesn't give a rat's ass about Scout history, you sure have a lot to say about it.
When it went right up that hill I was shocked and so was a hundred people or so. They all looked dumbfounded, and applauded SNF yelled. Unforgettable. It did have s granny gear
We had a 1964 scout was awesome for getting around it wasn’t very good on the highway to run the speed limit it sounded like it was going to blow but never did. in 1971 dad bought a Scout 2 a small V-8 it ran like a scared rabbit very reliable had great traction the only problem I saw with it was they tend to rust out very quickly. They rode very well compared to the four-wheel-drive‘s house the time
You didn't mention IH built fantastic trucks, including the Travelall and the Travelette (the first 4-door, six passenger TRUCK available without special order to the general public). The original Scout 80 could be had with bucket seats as well as a rear seat. My family purchased a new 1964 Scout 4X4 that had that set up. Why did you run video of the Scout II in the background when you were discussing the Scout 800? The original Scout was (and still us) a brilliant concept. More passenger friendly than the Jeep CJ. Good looking, reliable, easy to drive, unstoppable All Wheel Drive traction, and a wide variety of individual options made the Scout the best choice in economical transportation during it 20 year life span.
True story, in the Arizona desert, in 77, my dad took me to the salt river in a old 4 banger scout. I was in 7 the grade and we took it to ertr the rich kids were climbing a big hill right by the river. They had dome very nice trucks trying to climb this hill. The were high reving, tire spinning, . we pull up in this old beater and we crawled right IP that hill like it was nothing I wax so embarrassed in this old orange beater, when it went up that hil
I would take a scout over a bronco or jeep anyday. These vehicles were rugged. Ziebart was preferable to preserve the body panels. The ultimate would be a terra diesel.
You didn't even explain about the very last scout that international had put out,you really need to look more and read your history of a all American company that was doing its best,this company made more then tractors and vehicles. Look up the history of a real American company
