Here in Denver, the Jeep DJ-5 often shows up in Junkyard Finds.
Another truck that forms a regular part of The Crusher’s diet in Colorado is the International Harvester Scout.Yes, there was once a time when a farm-equipment manufacturer made highway-legal light trucks, and the Scout was (and is) a Colorado favorite. Here’s a battered ’74 I spotted a few weeks back.
In this seriesso far, we’ve seen this ’70 Scout, this ’71 Scout, and this ’73 Scout. Today’s find has a bit of rust, a well-worn interior, and seriously sun-bleached paint.
Oh yeah, and it appears to have had a minor rollover mishap.
When IHC needed to add instructions for window-regulator replacement, they went for combine-harvester-style stenciled instructions rather than the decals that the Detroit Big Three would have used.
I’m pretty sure this is the 304-cubic-inch IHC V8, but I don’t know enough about these engines to distinguish the 304 from the 345 at a glance. Either way, it’s a little four-wheel-drive truck with farm-grade V8 power!
The blue-and-white two-tone paint is more like light-blue-and-off-white by now, but it probably looked great when new.
Are there any Scouts without a hunting- or fishing-related window decal? No, there are none.