Anyone know about International Scouts???

73 dart said

I grew up with scouts learned how to drive in them. Started in a 62 with 4 cyld 3 speed and then dad bought a 66 v8 4 speed. The 62 4cyld 3 speed was very under powered but would climb the mountains in Colorado in 4x4 low very good. The 66 v8 had plenty of power but loved gas climb anything. But neither 1 had power steering or power brakes so they were hard to steer and hard to stop. I would let her drive it first to see to see if she can handle it okay without power anything. They ride like a log wagon and steer like on too. But if you can put that aside they are good vehicles.

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I went and drove it yesterday. I offered him 18k cash, he said he had to talk with the GF about it and that there might be one other guy who wanted to look at it and “buy” it. I told him 18k and that’s all I’ll do.

You hit the nail on the head with your reply! No power steering, manual and no power brakes. I’d drive the piss out of it, my wife, well she wouldn’t. So it would have to have power brakes and power steering swapped into it and then an automatic. So I told her she can get that one and never drive it until it is all swapped or we wait and find one already done with the swaps (more expensive).

I guess we will see what happens. The one above has basically 0 rust which makes it the perfect candidate to pay a shop to do the swap. Anytime you’re starting with a rusty project it gets 2-3x more expensive real quick.