well here are some more junkyard pics that i snapped when i went to majestic motors again this month. there are not specifically ford, but there is an international harvester scout that ive got my eyes on!

had to throw in a pic of my junkyard cruiser.










this is the scout im talking about. its in WICKED good shape. not rot at all. just surface rust. FLOORS ARE INTACT!!!!!!! and it has a removable hard top. i think it is either a 3 or 4 speed, not sure. it has the original 4 cylinder international motor in it. i couldn't crank it over because there was no battery. it came from north carolina just a week or 2 ago. they said they are looking for $2000 for this one AND they will throw in the other scout on the other side of the junkyard (i have pics of the other one in the post i made when i first went here and took pics a few weeks ago.

 

I have to agree.. that scout looks pretty slick. Cool looking deuce as well, pimp that. :P

 

I had an early Scout like that (two actually, only one working). That is the four cylinder model. It was a dog. It was slow to accelerate and slow to brake. You had to get it up to pretty high RPMs and change gears on that three speed. First gear is not synchronized. Remember that when down shifting to first. It had a very bumpy and noisy ride. I had both the full length top and the pick up style like that blue one.

The four cylinder engine is half a V8. It was designed and optionally sold with a mild turbo. When I had mine (30 years ago) and rebuilt it, it was before the company's bankruptcy. There were dealerships then that sold some parts. Even then some engine and body parts where hard to come by. The transfer case and tranny are borg-warner, so those parts would not be hard to come by. They were very easy to rebuild.

The thing is horribly under-powered. I was afraid to take it on the freeway. It took me hours to go up the grapevine (california hill on I5). The engine was in tune and solid. Even the V8s are a dog. I think the engine bay may be too short to put a 302 it. The brakes are undersized drums. I put in a vacuum booster and a vacuum bottle to make it stop better.

On the good side, It is easy to work on. The is lots of room in the engine bay. The tranny tunnel cover unbolts for easy access to the running gear. The top comes off and the windshield folds down. That's nice in the summer. With the high ground clearance and the short front and back body overhang, it was nice for going off-road. I was a geologist back then, not a rock crawler.

-Lance

 

yeah when i spotted it i was thinking something like a 302 or even a 289 in it with a 4 speed. i would have put dana 44 solid axle and a ford 9" in the rear. something along those lines. it wouldn't have had the stuff thats in it now. those are a few things that i thought off when i was looking at it. also i would put 33" boggers on it

 

Cool pictures...

 

Nice pics Travis, that Scout is pretty awesome (I'd swap the body from that black one onto that one). I'm just wondering why they bother keeping that white Ford around the junkyard... Doesn't look like it's worth much. It does look kind of familiar though...

 

hahaha i see how it is

 

Ohhhh now I see... It's the same one in your sig... Put 2 and 2 together here and...

Oh crap its YOUR truck!! Yeah uhh... It's pretty...umm... cool


Kidding brother, I love your truck I even don't mind the grabber green and Ford blue

 

It's interesting what attracts people, project wise.

While the scout looks clean and a lot of fun to get back on the road (or dirt, mud, whatever), what excited me was the 3-axle, double dually truck - shed the body and slap on an F-series crewcab and siamesed F-series bed - for the ultimate 4wd. Well, 6wd

 

I did not try to swap a 289 into mine, but for some reason I beleive that there may not be enough room to put a 289 or 302 into it. I could be something I read 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Make sure you measure it first.

-Lance

 

OMG haha yeah that would be an awesome truck! but they aren't selling it. they are rebuilding it. BUT my boss has one of them that he is selling. its in fairly good shape but has a tanker on it. selling it for $2000, but i have no room for it anywhere! haha

 

well i haven't bought it and probably won't, because ive got my truck and my monte carlo(which im trying to sell). plus i don't have the funds at this point to buy another project. but i a getting a lot of ideas for my next one

 

Don't be giving my camry any ideas now...

 

Sup up the escort lol, put you a loud fart pipe on it. Throw ya some fittys on it and slam it to the ground. just kiddin, cool pics

 

LOL!

"Camry!! You get down from there RIGHT NOW!!"