History

I bought this Scout in 9/94 for $1500. The guy I bought from was a college student who was given the truck by a neighbor The Scout had been sitting in a backyard for 2-3 years, and his plan was to get it running just enough to use it as a beater for the summer. He replaced a lot of the rusted out floor by rivetting in some new sheet metal. Here are some pictures he took while working on it. Considering how rusted out it was, and that it was just supposed to last him a summer, he did a decent job on the body. He even rivetted patches over all the holes in the body panel (front and rear fenders, mostly) given the truck an almost Frankenstien quality.
Unfortunately, he did a half-assed job on the engine (which led me on one hell of a ride went the accelerator got stuck to the floor on the highway) and I had to have some new lifters put in before I could get it to run reliably. The electrical system was also screwed. I had head lights, and tail lights, and nothing else. So it took me about 2 months to get it on the road. Oh, and I also had to replace the every part of the brake system, except for the master cylinder, which cost about the same as what I paid for the truck.

I also had to replace the hubs in early '95 because the casing on the original "Lock-o-matic" hubs was cracking. Unfortunately I couldn't find new "Lock-o-matics", so they got replaced with with standard manual locking hubs.

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