So what are you? A Scout owner first or a 4wheeler first?

[Joe V]

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?

[ol John Henry]

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

chit chat

[jdjanda]

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

[R O]

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

[slipscomb]

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...



Sean

[NotQuiteSane]

I only own Farm Implements.

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

NQS

[Scoutillac]

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

[uglyscout]

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.

[Harvester of Sorrow]

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

[Christian B]

Scout owner!!!!

[Cliffy [JD]]

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!!!

[TERRA-IZER]

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.

[Buddha's Ghost]

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.

[NotQuiteSane]

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

[Snoopy]

Originally posted by Joe V
So what are you?

A stud...

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

[Scout Dude]

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.

[harkinoff]

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" ?

[james west]

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

[Hayraker]

webwheeler

[Sully]

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.)

[61scout80]

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.

[tsm1mt]

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? 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.

[troutbum]

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

[SnowScoutII]

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

[scoutver5.7]

1) Hunter

2) Wheeler

3) Scout owner

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