New member to the family

[nick]

Well I'm just about done with my Scout 2 build and we'll as most of you now u just can't have one so. I found this today for $500 she needs work yes but it's going to be a gift for my wife/reason to keep building scouts. So the low down.... I have no clue of the year and yea it's missing some parts but it's a Scout 800a aristocrat.

 

[nick]

more

 

[FDChappie]

A little paint and bondo and she'll be good as new. ;-] What does the wife think of it?

 

[nick]

She loves it have to find some parts but she's ready to get going on it lol

 

[Scoutboy74]

Amc 232 I-6 engine. Ihc's 6 cylinder engines were too big and ancient to be viable for the Scout platform. Solution...buy engines from your direct competitor to provide a 6 cylinder option.

 

[scouttoo]

A wife who loves scouts - what a find!

What are your plans, resto or mod? You could stay with six in a row; rebuild the original, 258 or even a 4.0 - but that one would require a 'puter.

 

[FDChappie]

Should make some great before & after pics.

 

[nick]

Yea I'm bad at taking pics but my buddy got a lot the day we got her

 

[FDChappie]

My wife, who went on her honeymoon in our Scout in 1985, is looking at your find and giving me that look of don't do that for me. Your wife must have a lot of faith in you.

So how do you know if you're a redneck? You're out weed whacking and you find a car you forgot about. :-}

please share pics of the restoration, or keep your buddy around. Hey, your just over the hill, I'm in hopland. Howdy neighbor.

 

[nick]

Yea she dose have a lot of fath in me . We went throw hell when I was building my Scout but she nows I enjoy building things . Nice your in hopland do you ever get over to lakeport? I'm just finishing up my 72 Scout 2. I'm in the finishing stages of puting a sd33t and shaping the auto for a t19 so it's been fun. Lol. Well hit me up if u ever get in lakecounty

 

[FDChappie]

I do get over there often. I see you're a diesel fan, here's the one that runs our off-grid home when the sun does not shine.

 

[nick]

Thank god for good junk yeards got a couple things I was missing or in bad shape

 

[nick]

Trying to track down 2 fenders and a 1/2top nd shudder be ready it's an addiction

 

[nick]

Made a little more head way we picked up a 1/2 top and also had a family day at the junk yeard I love my wife