Hello! And thanks for letting me join your forum (it's not a club!).
Real quick: I've owned three Scout 80s, all of them 2wd. The first was a 1961 (the original Scout) and maybe a picture can explain it best...
...that was after 10 years of owning it! I ran it around in the early '90s, then left it in portland, me for 5 years. I just couldn't keep up with it then, and junked it in 2005 or so. I kept the gearshift knob.
Second was a 1963, that a friend of mine had owned for 10 years or so. He couldn't keep up with it (grad school, wife, house, kid...) so he gave it to me and went out and bought a '78 traveler a year or two later.
I did a lot of work on that one. Unemployment meant getting rid of it and buying a gmc. (a guy in daly city bought it to go fishin' in, you'll see it around.) but I kept the 'parts' truck. A 1962 postal service Scout I bought because it had a good transmission and a working left side window crank. (right hand drive, perfect left door!)
There aren't many good photos of that one, but if you look on the passenger's side of the windshield you'll see a "delmonte plant #1" sticker from modesto, from which I took my screen name. I aim to get the postie back on the road, but it's been two other people's 'project truck' before me and there's a lot of reworking to be done. It did run and drive (and stop!) when I put it in the garage, so there's a good chance I'll drive it back out of there.
I have a website where I chronicle the repairs done on the scouts, infrequently and incompletely, along with my strange resume of weird jobs. thingsaboutstuff.com
I hope I can bring as much to the forum as I know I will learn...
Cheers!
Real quick: I've owned three Scout 80s, all of them 2wd. The first was a 1961 (the original Scout) and maybe a picture can explain it best...
...that was after 10 years of owning it! I ran it around in the early '90s, then left it in portland, me for 5 years. I just couldn't keep up with it then, and junked it in 2005 or so. I kept the gearshift knob.
Second was a 1963, that a friend of mine had owned for 10 years or so. He couldn't keep up with it (grad school, wife, house, kid...) so he gave it to me and went out and bought a '78 traveler a year or two later.
I did a lot of work on that one. Unemployment meant getting rid of it and buying a gmc. (a guy in daly city bought it to go fishin' in, you'll see it around.) but I kept the 'parts' truck. A 1962 postal service Scout I bought because it had a good transmission and a working left side window crank. (right hand drive, perfect left door!)
There aren't many good photos of that one, but if you look on the passenger's side of the windshield you'll see a "delmonte plant #1" sticker from modesto, from which I took my screen name. I aim to get the postie back on the road, but it's been two other people's 'project truck' before me and there's a lot of reworking to be done. It did run and drive (and stop!) when I put it in the garage, so there's a good chance I'll drive it back out of there.
I have a website where I chronicle the repairs done on the scouts, infrequently and incompletely, along with my strange resume of weird jobs. thingsaboutstuff.com
I hope I can bring as much to the forum as I know I will learn...
Cheers!
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