And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I had one back in 81 or 82 when working in the Wyoming oil/gas fields. Ran like a top and got decent mileage. Sold if for $500. One of my biggest regrets!
Yeah because parts were incredibly high priced. Not hard to find, just arm and a leg high priced. For that reason I sold my Scout II. Fun vehicle, never got stuck in mud or sand. But an education in getting by with the least n7mber of gauges working. The straight carb was priced like it was made of gold. Okay, that's enough.
Looks like this one has a folding windshield? And of course the two 10 gallon saddle-bag gas tanks. I'd be driving down the interstate and run the first one out, reach down by the driver's seat and turn the valve 90°, then flip the switch for the gas gauge to read the other tank, as the engine caught. Happy days......
Dad had a '63 Scout 80 and it was a total dog in Colorado Rocky Mountains. It could barely get up and over a speed bump let alone a mountain. He traded it for a new '72 Scout II. The Scout II would climb a wall if you let it. The '72 had a 198 c.i., slant 4, with a 3 speed transmission and 4-11's. Nothing could stop that machine, but it did have a top speed of about 55mph. Fun machine to drive. My cousin bought it from me when I went into the military in 1986. He used it on his farm in Kansas until his one of his sons totaled it. Too bad.
Back in the early 1960's a vacationing family that rented a house down the road from our family home in Palmer Lake, Colorado, had one that their two teenage boys drove all over the place.
Nice Scout truck. The baby off-road truck of its day.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Scout 80. They were tough and dependable and, initially, underpowered.
ReplyDeleteThe first vehicle I ever got to drive back in PA a very long time ago. It was used to plow snow off a very long driveway. Jeff C. in NC
ReplyDeleteI had one back in 81 or 82 when working in the Wyoming oil/gas fields. Ran like a top and got decent mileage. Sold if for $500. One of my biggest regrets!
ReplyDeleteYeah because parts were incredibly high priced. Not hard to find, just arm and a leg high priced. For that reason I sold my Scout II.
ReplyDeleteFun vehicle, never got stuck in mud or sand. But an education in getting by with the least n7mber of gauges working. The straight carb was priced like it was made of gold.
Okay, that's enough.
Looks like this one has a folding windshield? And of course the two 10 gallon saddle-bag gas tanks. I'd be driving down the interstate and run the first one out, reach down by the driver's seat and turn the valve 90°, then flip the switch for the gas gauge to read the other tank, as the engine caught. Happy days......
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ReplyDeleteDad had a '63 Scout 80 and it was a total dog in Colorado Rocky Mountains. It could barely get up and over a speed bump let alone a mountain. He traded it for a new '72 Scout II. The Scout II would climb a wall if you let it. The '72 had a 198 c.i., slant 4, with a 3 speed transmission and 4-11's. Nothing could stop that machine, but it did have a top speed of about 55mph. Fun machine to drive. My cousin bought it from me when I went into the military in 1986. He used it on his farm in Kansas until his one of his sons totaled it. Too bad.
ReplyDeleteI had a '68 Scout. Gave it to my brother when I moved to Arizona in '82. He willed it back to me, but he's still alive.
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ReplyDeleteBack in the early 1960's a vacationing family that rented a house down the road from our family home in Palmer Lake, Colorado, had one that their two teenage boys drove all over the place.
ReplyDeleteI had a boss in the late 80's that had one of these as his hunting vehicle.
ReplyDeleteHate like hell to rain on your parade but the reason you don't see them around is because they were junk.
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