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General Category => PHOTOS OF GENERAL INTEREST (NOT TOOLS OR SHOP RELATED) => Topic started by: ScoutDriver on October 31, 2018, 07:56:21 PM

Title: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: ScoutDriver on October 31, 2018, 07:56:21 PM

This evening Linda and I moved a couple rigs around in the shop before winter sets in.  My '78 Scout Traveler which has done duty over many winters, has been given its winters off the last few years.  Anyhow, I took it for a quick cruise before backing it into the shop tonight.

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: pep on October 31, 2018, 08:17:06 PM

I like that ......

Pep

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: muddy on October 31, 2018, 08:21:04 PM

Neat looking trucks


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Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: jabberwoki on October 31, 2018, 08:51:08 PM

Last time I was over in Hulett , there was a pink Scout for sale in someone's yard.
I should have got a pic.
roll  it in linex and shove a turbo 4 cyl Cummins in it....done.

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on October 31, 2018, 11:23:08 PM

Beautiful sunset behind that there Scout.

So is the Traveler considered the grocery getter of Scouts?

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: skfarmer on November 01, 2018, 07:31:12 AM

nice pics. looks like harvest is wrapping up there. finished the last of the corn yesterday and also finished working corn ground.  a couple days of tillage on soybean ground and i can call it year.

i guess i am behind in putting equipment away.

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: goodfellow on November 01, 2018, 07:32:31 AM

Very nice!!! -- they are great old vehicles.

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: bmwrd0 on November 01, 2018, 10:01:18 AM

On one of the roads south of here, there is a Scout 800 Sport, with the sloped back hardtop. Just sitting there, getting eaten by brambles.

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: gtermini on November 01, 2018, 10:24:24 AM

 8)

I'm also a member of the Intertrashional brotherhood. 63 Scout 80, 152 slant 4, 3spd no granny or OD, dana 18 t case. It might do 50 downhill with a tailwind and gets 6mpg on a good day. It's a turd, but it's kinda fun. Had it since I was 17.
(https://i.imgur.com/Rb1q5Xq.jpg)

Intertrashional was into no-frills, simple, quality back them I love that they even had their own bolt factory and all the fasteners are stamped IH on the head.

Greyson

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: john k on November 01, 2018, 10:55:51 AM

Does this mean that this winter is going to be epic?   Does the Scout have locking axles?   

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: goodfellow on November 01, 2018, 12:23:59 PM

A friend of mine owned one exactly as described, and we took it to Vermont for skiing. The 4 cylinder was a stretch on I95 north (even with the 55MPH speed limit at the time), but once we were in snowbound Vermont, that thing plowed through snow that the Jeeps and Blazers had trouble with. It rode like a hay wagon with bias-ply snow tires on it, but man could it pull up a snowy mountain road to the slopes.

Title: Re: '78 Scout Traveler
Post by: ScoutDriver on November 01, 2018, 09:07:11 PM

The Traveler was the same as a Scout II except it was about 18" longer.  From what I have seen, most Travelers were sold with plusher interiors and were more heavily optioned when ordered by the dealers.  Its rather rare to see a bare-bones Traveler.

Scott