Thread: International Harvester Scout

I nearly bought a Scout over here many years ago but it needed to much money spending on it,Burt Renolds drove one in the film Deliverance.

Originally Posted by long stroke

I'm not sure, it looks like the one you have pictured but without a roof, i'll have to check it out next week

TIM.

Grab a picture if you can Tim How much work does it need / what are you guys doing?

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

Grab a picture if you can Tim How much work does it need?

It needs a fair bit of work lots of rust, nothing realy works either
We have just got the engine running for the guy, just need to fix the brakes and the guy who owns it is going to try restore it

TIM.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8"]YouTube- Dueling Banjos Deliverance[/nomedia]

Pete,

I used to work on these and J**PS etc. One thing I loathed about them was the arrogant simplicity. Typical yank design of big, unbalanced and robust. NO finesse or ergonomics. (Well, better ergonomics than a Def but you get the picture...)
The 345ci V8 was as heavy as, and it was as far forward as a 110 V8. It was fair OVER the front axle.

The Dana 44 was strong enough in the front and rear IMHO (Unless running 37's) but as already stated IIRC Dana 30 were front in most. Steering was approximate.

Basically, a pretty flexible 'C' section chassis was the only reason they got ANY flex in stock form, and did I say the steering was woeful?

I would say as soon as you take a look underneath it'd be 'THAT will have to be moved, THAT would have to be modded, THAT would have to be rebuilt' etc etc.



JC

Thanks Justin,

Love the steering comment!!

If anyone sees one can they let me know!!

Rgds
Pete

When they did flex the suspension/ Chassis they had a habit of pulling the tanks off of the radiators on the later models.

As an alternative to JDNSW, I will list my good experiences with them - I had a few mates with them in the 70's.

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Thats about it

The fact is, there were much better options out there at the time. Not to say its a bad idea to do one up, but it will still be an international scout when its finished