Wierd question...maybe chit chat. So what do you consider yourself? A Scout owner first and a 4wheeler second?

I've always been a Scout 4wheeler but if it came down to it, I have no reserves saying that I'm a 4wheeler first.

So what are you?

#1.Hillbilly
#2 Pilgrim
#3 Thread lurking parts whore
#4 Builder
#5 Wheeler
#6 IH owner :emb4: (down on the bottom)

chit chat
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Both, I enjoy the fact the I wheel a unique vehicle. It just would not be as much fun with a Jeep or a Toy

Got a fullsize Bronco but I like my Scout way better.

I was a wheeler first since I did start with a J**p first. Just not enough wheel base. There's just somethin bout a man with wheelbase.....just tryin to figure that out! Here's where it all started with the Scouts in 1993...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/slipscomb/Retro%20wheelin%20Scout%20pics/1stScoutMud.jpg

Sean

I only own Farm Implements.

Well, Ok, I'm ythinking seriously about learning to ride (and buy) a motorcycle

NQS

I own a Scout and I wheel the piss out of it, so I'm not sure where I fall. All I really know is the more Scout I take out of my rig, the better I like it:flipoff2:

I am probably a Scout owner first - then a wheeler - someday I am sure I will have a clean nice daily driver Scout that I work on just as much as my off-raod trailer tractor I have now. But the beauty of a Scout if you can be fairly brand loyal and Still wheel it like nobodys business.

Wheeler first...But with two wheel drives. I used to build baja's and run them up in the Little Naches area of Washington state.

Then a friend of mine got an 86 4x4 Ranger. That is when I realized that if I could not RPM (power) or float over things that I was going to need to have the front end under power as well.

One cool thing that we did was to take a Nissan front end and run a shaft off of the 1st gear in the transmission. Bore the shaft center out through the case, bearing it, and then use the out put to the front end....1st gear 4X4....with no transfer case!

Bought my Scout in 92' and have wheel'ed it since

Scout owner!!!!

Wheeler.

First 4x4 = 72 Blazer (cursed and too big)
Second 4x4 = 96 XJ (Daily Driver)
Third 4x4 = 78 ScoutII (Great Size)

I agree with Scoutillac, the more IH I take out of my Scout the better I like it!!!

I would have to say a Scout owner than a wheeler, i have owned 30 scouts so far and i'am only 24 and i'am sure i won't stop at 30. I still have the first scout i ever owned (1976 Terra i bought at 14) its my wheeler and when i do wheel it its wheeled pretty hard, its been rolled twice.

Wheeler first, but Scout owner is a close second. My first 4by was a 79 Ford shortbed. Then my 82 Toy pickup I still have.





I love my Scout though. Rust and all. :D

What I like is the IH people. Of all those I've met, (on or off line) only 2 weren't honest, trustworthy people that would do everything they could for their IH freinds.

It's one reason I moved to Oregon, IHSTO is the Club. when my rear end went out, and I was broke, they gave me funds (they say it's a gift, but it's getting paid back) to get my scout home, and Jack was considerign driving the 5 hours south to rescue me.

Sean has donated Parts and labor several times to help me fix my truck, If it wasn't for Tom, i'd still be using Windows, Snoopy & Hoop have helped me over a few personal issues, Hell, The very first person I dealt with was OS when I got into scouts, whats this about him being an ass? I can't recall him ever being rude to anyone who didn't deserve it (ie. not seaching, newbie Q's here)

The 800 I bought from Mark (BTW mark, IF I can get a tranny, I may leave your SSII panels w/ john donnelly for the next time someone from IHSTO goes up that way), been at Rob's, Contacted him earlier in the week said I was gonna have Mark re-list it since I don't expect to get up there anytime soon, he said don't. it's fine where it is.

Then of course there's people like Scott, Howard, & Ernie that will bend over backwards to make sure the customer is happy...

I own an International because of the people who own them. I'd much rather belong to a community of a few thousand with 1-200 seriously active people who knew each other, than buy a J##p, or one of the big 3/import, and belong to a community of a 100 thousand and not be able to know that whereever you go, if you need help, or just wanna chat about scouts, there will be someone near you.

the club I belong to (International Harvester Scouts and Trucks of Oregon) Is about the Owners, not the vehicles. I don't know, but I hope the same can be said of the other clubs

NQS

Originally posted by Joe V
So what are you?
A stud...:D

But really. When I decided to buy a '4x4' when we were planning to move from CA to CO ~ we were expecting little Matthew at the time and the move to 'snow country' made us decide that my 2-seater Porsche wasn't going to cut it.

I was looking for a Scout or LandCruiser FJ40 but a wrecked FJ goes for $2500 while I could find a good scout for $1300....so I picked up a Scout (lil Mule) and started building stuff for it (never had been wheeling).

I then attended the West Coast Scout Winter *Regionals* in Feb 99 and the guys there thought my stuff sucked (never went wheeling before so I was a little clueless). I hung around in my MiniVan (yes, it was a 96 Caravan ~ wifes car. Yes, we freaked and thought that we needed the minivan with one kid on the way). Anyway, my bumper design bombed so I packed it back up in the caravan and went wheeling with some friends (Bill and some of the other guys I met at AnythingScout). Lil Mule wasn't there becuase I didn't trust it to make the trip to Hollister let alone wheel the thing.

After we got to Colorado I started wheeling Lil Mule and built *new* bumpers for it. Everything else is history.

So I guess I go:
Porsche driver -> wanna-be 4x4 poser -> IHC Owner -> Wheeler

I'm a wheeler...and Scouts are peices of shit....so that's why there is very little "Scout" left in mine.

However, Jeeps, Land cruisers, Toy trucks, well basically everything but fullsize 1-tons are peices of shit too and Fullsize rigs are too big to wheel...So, if your gonna swap EVERYTHING out, why not start out with something that costs very little to buy in the first place...and has a great starting wheelbase to boot.;)

I don't know what to call myself? about a year ago I was called a mall cruiser!!!! right NOTQUITESANE......my wife calls me LUCKY.. after surviving my second nasty "Brain Injury"...
I started wheelin a 61 t-cab studebaker when I was a kid, then went to a Ford, Chevy, Dodge, now I wheel some crossbreed thing called a Scout, course I gutted everything that had IH on it and replaced everything from vehicles stated above, so back to what to call myself, I guess "Lucky Mall Cruiser" ?:p

wheeler first

got the scout because i was looking for:
-right price
-solid front end
-auto tranny
-removeable top
-V8

the scout filled these requirements, and i have since grown quite attached

webwheeler

Prolly a scout owner first, then a wheeler. My first vehicle was a '70 800A, and I've owned Scouts ever since. My current one is my daily driver as well as my wheeler.

(Big mistake since I've been taking the bus everywhere after grenading the tranny wheeling two weeks ago.)

i'm a guy building a scout to wheel it. i was rescued from the sport compact world and shown a new world of unlimited possibiltys, so i was looking for a j**p or a sammi and came accross a truck i never seen before, $150 later, i drove my scout to the garage....w/o brakes.

Hmmm..

My first wheeler was a Scout.. and still is a Scout.

I've wheeled a few Broncos from time to time though - it was fun, but I didn't bring one home with me. :)

Plus I've wheeled a Travelall, and for a while wheeled it pretty regularly.. so does that count as NOT being a Scouter? :D Am I really a Travelall-wheeler?

Wheeling a Scout certainly makes it easy to be identified.. I'm usually the only Scout on a run, versus the half dozen Broncos (EBs, 78-79 BBs, and 80-97 TTBBs)

It's especially fun when racing, since it certainly gives the rig a unique character.. more so when it's still running an IH V8.

Cheap first and foremost, I think most of us our cheap. :flipoff2:

Every time I Put a new dent in it....I fell a little closer to my scout:D

1) Hunter

2) Wheeler

3) Scout owner

I ain't never been "brand loyal". They all have their good points and bad points.

I am a wheeler first.

Pushed my IFS past the point of insanity a time or 2 -- so now its time to move up to the world of SFA...

got(not in possession yet) a scout because

SFA
removable top
wheelbase
usable "storage space" and backseat at the same time( have to see how that works after the frame/body bob
D44's front and rear to start off with
&
if i tried hard enough i could probaly get 5 of them for 1000 (4 wiht a shit-ass body)and oneend up with one hell of a rig

Wheeler first, but I had lots of other things it had to do also.

I bought a scout because nothing else has the same versatility in one pakage. This is what sold me;

1. Diesel. like them, great mpg, sure would enjoy passing agine though.

2. Halls three kids. The local law gets mad when you lash the car seats to the rollcage of your cj-7. Just dose't seem right.

3.Plows snow. Lots this year and has been a good truck for it.

4. Cheap parts

5. Top comes off

6. Not much else this size that does all that and can go places too.

More of the same.

I looked at what I wanted in a offroader and truck and came up with a Scout:

Plenty of room without being too big.
Top comes off.

Didn't know at the time that they have great engines and decent drivetrains.

The one thing I can't stand is the guys over on binderbulletin who think that everything about IH is perfect.

I bought my SSII for $500. Never driven anything else off-road. Well I slide my 57 3100 into a couple ditches but that does not count.
Scout owner = off-roader

i'v always found wheeling to be 90% fabbing and fixing .....so a scout is the easy choice

Both. First day I owned my scout (1978) I took it both on and off-road. Drove it home, barely. 15mph, peddle to the floor up a 15% grade.

Hey, I was in 8th grade...didn't know that much. Anyway, I got it started, but everytime I put the 727 in gear, it would stall. So I rev'd the engine, put it in gear, and drove it around the muddy dirt driveway...in the process bumping the TC into 4L (which was supposedly impossible because of a rear collision) and then spent the rest of the day getting it out. :)

Grant

wheeler first cause i wont have my scout till friday hopefully, but loved wheeling forever

I'am a binder owner first, only owned 95 of them.

Scout owner first,wheeler second.Ive owned and wheeled scouts for 24 years and love it.

Off roader first! Then bumped into a Scout that didn't have any rust, very rare as rust was designed in at the factory. The engineer who made the body should be hunted down and torchered with rusty body panels...:eek:

wheeler first, scout 80 is actually pretty close dimension wise to a yota, which is what I had..

I have owned one running scout and 3 non now though, addictive things :p

WOW, holey reserecting an old thread batman!!


anyone catch the original dates :D heck, 1/2 those people arn't even on this board anymore :laughing::laughing:

WOW, holey reserecting an old thread batman!!


anyone catch the original dates :D heck, 1/2 those people arn't even on this board anymore :laughing::laughing:

when I saw the start date I said WTF! why is a 6 year old thread being opened back up for?:homer::shaking:

Welcome to 2003 :laughing:

Good for the guy who resurrected it. Its a sad reminder that as time goes by we lose too many good people and many of their replacments are idiots. Scout owner here first, fell in love with it when I was about 12 when my folks took me to the Chicago auto show.

I am a wheeler first.
SFA
removable top
wheelbase
usable "storage space" and backseat at the same time( have to see how that works after the frame/body bob
D44's front and rear to start off with
&
if i tried hard enough i could probaly get 5 of them for 1000 (4 wiht a shit-ass body)and oneend up with one hell of a rig

That is the exact same reason I bought mine. Not too small like a sammi and not too overdone like so many Jeeps I see everyday fawking day :shaking:

I started as a Scout owner first, but afteri ran a few trails I realized that the experience is the same, just in a different package.

wheeler/car tuck freek
1>89 f-150 33's 4inch
2> 72 blazer 44+14 36
3> 97 ford 350 standard, power stroke 37
4> 05 tj 4inch 33 (drive that bitch back to Oregon 3times and you'd trade it in to)
5> 72 scout love it but havn't wheeled it yet
6> 01 dodge 1500, 44,000 miles 33's ( this is my old man truck im not alowed to lift it any more)
5-6 47-53 chevy's, 5plymouths 50's era, 1 steel model a sedan, 4 67-72 chevy pickups(non 4x4), 1 fiberglass "T" (never did anything with it), 1 67 something datsun, 2 lowrider trucks (97 s-10 for sale 6inch lowering kit +18's)
I think thats all the kinda cool ones not counting one's I just bought to make a dime on
I wheeled the shit out of the 4x4's so guess that makes me a wheeler 1st scou owner 2nd........... by the way this is kinda a lame post:flipoff2:

Wow. This got dug up.
That was a while ago.

Still a Scout owner. I have not wheeled in years (because I have a Scout :D).

Graduated, got married, bought a house, I am setting up my garage now. So, soon the Scout will be towed from my parent's house and I can get to wrenching again.

Wow. This got dug up.
That was a while ago.


No kidding, old thread plucker :flipoff2:

First car was a '53 Willys Wagon 2x

First rig I ever had was a Scout, my mom made me buy it in 1969. Have owned and wheeled a few others, CJ-2A, couple of Dodges, Fords, Chevys, and some Monteros but kept going back to Scouts. I have a 77 SS that I used to wheel until I found this site and learned that it was supposed to be on jack stands:flipoff2:

I am probably a Scout owner first - then a wheeler - someday I am sure I will have a clean nice daily driver Scout that I work on just as much as my off-raod trail tractor I have now. But the beauty of a Scout is you can be fairly brand loyal and Still wheel it like nobodys business.

My response from 6 years ago....
I still have the 'same' Scout (mostly).

I have kicked brand loyalty to the curb and pulled a ton of IH stuff off and thrown it away.

And I will probably never have a DD 'nice' Scout.

Wow...six years ago...:laughing:

I am the same then as I am now. A douche bag Scout owner...

I now have a clapped out box of misc. parts that are all fastened to a Scout 80 frame.

I still love this hobby and hope to enjoy it for many more years.

Tried to wheel first, but J^^p wouldn't stay together long enough to actually call it wheelin. Bought the Scout, wheeled worry free for a few years then had to start upgrading. I would have to say I became and wheeler and IH owner @ about the same time.

Wheeler first...

Wheeler first, J@#P I put through hell but outgrew it, ford, toyota, and finally Scout. Grew up in and around a Scout and was always looking for one, just took a while to find.

Had the Scout for 13 years and haven't looked back. I own more and become more of an International guy everyday.

scout guy first,had tons of II's,now my first 800 and full blown trail rig.will be building a diesle DD after the 800 build also.

My response from 6 years ago....
I still have the 'same' Scout (mostly).

I have kicked brand loyalty to the curb and pulled a ton of IH stuff off and thrown it away.

And I will probably never have a DD 'nice' Scout.


LMAO when I read your post from 6 years ago.:grinpimp:

wheeler:smokin:

tough question. can you own a scout and not wheel it? maybe not hardcore rock crawling, but you gotta at least get into some mud and run some trails. WHEELER first. sami, then XJ, then scout, then scout again. got another XJ now for DD and the terra to drive/wheel.

Bored.

Scout owner first. Too many jeeps in these parts. Very few IH's. It's nice to have something unique. Family friend had one when I was younger that we used to hunt in.

IH owner at heart. Even if I folded up shop I would still have my Scout! I also still have my first Scout from when I was 16 as it will be my son's first Scout when he comes of age.
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