oh ok, once again ty for the clarification. In the pick I could just make out the 4 doors. I have seen a few 4 door station wagon types, that look pretty damn cool. Were any of those ever made 4x4? It's just like me to get wayyyyyyyyy ahead of myself. I've barely touched my Scout and I am already thinking to my next purchase lol.
Ya could get a 4x4 t'ette, the pos green one in the storee "miz phelps" is 4x4...closed knuckle spicer 60 axle.
Ya could get one with no axles under it, or a glider (no rear axle. Every vehicle ihc ever produced through the "light line" stuff was built to an individual dealer-specific order. There were no "pool" vehicles ever produced such as was commonly done by all other oems.
Every vehicle a dealer ordered was spec'd out on an order form, this was way before computers were ever used for inventory control/manufacturing scheduling. However, a dealer could spec say 25 identical units (equipment-wise) with so many of each interior/exterior color combos.
Same for any "fleet" sales, or units that were purchased through the bid process for gummint-related apps, or large fleet buyers.
There were "basic" vehicle packages that the actual dealer order was based upon, that is the "prototype" designation seen on some line set tickets. But those "prototypes" were incomplete and had to have all/some of the boxes checked on the individual order sheets in order for the vehicle to come off the line at the end as a driver. Even a rolling chassis was available (just like a motorhome chassis), those were sold to various fabricators for tuning into vocational vehicles of some sort, such as small garbage packers, aircraft tugs and ramp service vehicles, backcountry firefighting rigs, etc.
In the pacific northwest, it was common for fleet buyers to order these rigs as a glider, or sans any axles. The dealer or fleet service operation (sometimes the "factory branch"), then installed their own axles that were removed from other vehicles that were being phased out of a fleet, typical in the timber industry where they used some real strange "vocational" axles that had proprietary super-low geared transfer cases that weren't meant to be shifted. They were used permanently in 4x4 operation, tires mounted with chains always, and used drive flanges on the front hubs instead of locking-type hubs.
is that a 69-71 d series travelette I spy behind your Scout?
