Quote why I should suddenly be blogging about Inernational Scout 4x4 pickups I have absolutely no idea. But when Biglorryblog gets the ball you can bet he's going to run with it And naturally if you're looking for pictures and information on anything then surprise, surprise, Wikipedia has a fantastic section on IH WSCouts from the very beginning to the later models and that's where this picture of a (I think) 1961 Scout 80 model comes from. As far as I can tell the 80 was the one with the removable top and windscreen--the 800 series had the fixed windscreen (unless anyone can tell me different if so please post a comment. And here's the link to the Wikipedia page which is where the above picture comes from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Harvester_Scout#Scout_80_and_Scout_800
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Meanwhile, AtiPete has come back to say: "I don't have a photo of a stripped down Scout but here is one of the engine. It is a slant 4 cylinder, made from their 345 cubic inch V8 with one bank of the engine blanked out at the casting stage. A lot of the V8 parts could then be used, and you can see the V8 distributor cap with every second contact blocked off.In later years they didnt bother with this and just fitted the whole V8 engine.Cheers Pete."
And if anyone has anything on the Scout I'll take it.....it's about time BLB learnt that there's more to 4x4s than G-wagens! |
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