I work across the street from Navistar, so I see CXTs once and a while, and this thing could definitely, as the earlier post mentions, fuck up a CXT.

International's reliance on Nissan for the diesel Scout's should have been a warning to Ford though.

If this one doesn't have any rust, you could say that you're buying Terra Firma.

My high school friend and his brother had three of those Scouts, and while none were Terras, one did have a removable hardtop and no doors. I actually rode in one of their Scouts, a fixed-roof model, a few times back in the day, I could remember just how loud it was inside.

And I still love those Scouts to this day. I also wish they still made them and all of those other trucks IH made back in the day... just too cool.

@scotte:
Your concept of a Scout without rust is an interesting gedankenexperiment. I feel, however, that it is not successful, since that is so far outside the realm of possibility that it fails to register.

I was thinking today, and this post reminded me: the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage needs a serious truck or two, and I was specifically thinking of A) some variant of IH Scout, B) Land Rover Defender or Range Rover, C) Toyota FJ 40/50/60 Series Landcruiser. Any of those would be entirely acceptable.

I'm not interested until somebody slaps a Ferrari body kit on it.

I thought International made the 304 V8 as well as the 252 (4.2L) inline 6 for AMC.

@Paul Y:

Actually, I think a Nissan Patrol would be a great addition. Built like a tank much like the early FJ's, with the added cachet of scarcity.

I'm not familiar with the Nissan Patrol at all. Wikipedia and Google, being the all-seeing oracles that they are, will now enlighten me.

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Ok, I see your point now. I can get behind that.

I think an FJ50 would be a perfect Jalopnik dream car as they are pretty much the most obscure and funky FJs (these are the 4 door SUV lookin ones form the early 70s) I have only seen one ever that was operable and it was a literally gleaming example on top of a mountain pass near Breckenridge.

Or the original 60's era Broncos which were pretty cool before they got all OJed up.

@Teds:

Parnelli Jones "Big Oly" Bronco. THE early '60's Bronco

http://www.bajabronco.com/BigOly.shtml

Yes! The Dream Garage should include several classic trucks. At a minumum one with enough towing capacity to haul a flat-bed car hauler. Gotta drive something back and forth to the track.

Please, no Lambo-Rambo though. It should be a post-WWII, but pre-1980. American, British, or Japanese all have their merits.

and noooooow I remember why my bro loved living in Lubbock. Such a classic fleetside!

@Teds - I lived in Nigeria in the mid-1970s, and the FJ50 was everywhere. Along with the VW Beetle and Bus of that era, and some truly wretched license-built Peugeot 504s. As I recall, you could pretty much drive the FJ50 off a cliff and keep going. The Peugeots required that either the driver or the front seat passenger keep one hand on the windshield while the car was in motion, otherwise the glass had a tendency to fall out.

Most gorgeous truck ever.

Does anybody honestly think the Dream Garage will contain a "classic truck" before it is filled with caminos?

@JoeWoodsprite:

A classic truck would be nice, but we should probably remove all previous entries into the Fantasy Garage, and replace them all with various Caminos/'Cheros.