1962 International Harvester Scout Runs And Drives Fold Down Windshield Two Tops on 2040-cars

Up for auction is a 1962 International Scout. This is a fairly straight all original as far as we can tell truck.  Engine fires up and runs good and appears to be all original. Trans and clutch feel good and it shifts through all the gears just like it should.  4 wheel drive and low range work. Has locking front hubs. Bench front seat. Turn signals don't work but headlights and tail lights work. Heater isn't hooked up but everything is there with the exception of a couple hoses. Windshield is cracked but the other glass is good. Window seals are cracked from age. This truck comes with two tops. The top pictured on the truck is the Travel top Station Wagon and it also comes with a Cab top pickup top. The Scout can be ran without the top and the upper door windows unbolt and the windshield folds down similar to a Jeep. Has some minor rust in the front floors. Rocker also have some rust. Bed area and under hood area are very rust free. Very complete, very original little scout that would make a great offroad project stock or modified. These little trucks are getting very hard to find and have become very collectible in the past few years.  Shipping is the buyers responsibility but I will be happy to help meet a truck on my end and prep it for shipment. I welcome International buyers and can store the Scout indoors in my warehouse until you get shipping arranged. Feel free to contact me with any question you have. I will have a video up shortly with a Virtual Test Drive and walk around. Check the bottom of the description here for the video.  Thanks for checking out our auction. Jeremy. (208)200-6053

SOME HISTORY ON THE SCOUT:

In 2011, the International Harvester Scout celebrated 50 years and that makes this a good time to talk about its place in four-wheeling history. When it debuted in November of 1960, the Scout was a step forward in the growing market segment eventually called Sport Utility. Four-wheeling had moved beyond the “captive audiences” of the strictly commercial or military market into recreational use and people demanded more in the way of comfort and convenience.

Looking at the first Scouts through today’s prism, you may be tempted to ask, “What comfort? What convenience?” It’s all relative to the period, of course. The Scout Travel-Top had doors, a full metal top, a better driving position, more comfortable seating, and more room than it’s main competitors and that’s just what customers were asking for in the new market segment. It was a step up and other steps rapidly followed, with International Harvester (IH) and others.

When IH designer, Ted Ornas, started the project in the late ’50s, the stated concept was for a competitor to the Jeep CJ, another slab-sided workhorse. Considering IH started with a blank sheet, going from sketches to production in around 24 months is nothing short of remarkable. Along the way, the project morphed into a more stylish, sporty, and civilized rig that lost nothing in the utility department.

The new Scout 80 came as a 4x2 or a 4x4, sat on a 100-inch wheelbase, and was offered in four configurations, the no-top Roadster, the Cab-Top pickup, the Travel-Top station wagon, and the Panel-Top panel. The tops were interchangeable, the door glass removable, the doors themselves removable, the windshield foldable, and the Scout initially had a permanently fixed bulkhead behind the seats leaving a 5-foot cargo area that was 54 inches wide at the top.

Scouts were powered by the new Comanche 152ci, 93hp four-cylinder, an engine with a story. When the Scout project started, IH went looking for a four-cylinder engine because the company had nothing suitable in-house. In the midst of the search, the powertrain department had the idea to do a “bank-ectomy” and lop the left bank from the IH 304ci industrial V-8. Voila, instant four-banger. Parts interchangeability with the V-8 made it practical and a 93hp, 137 lb-ft gross rating put it 18hp and 23 lb-ft above Jeep’s high-compression four-cylinder.