Carnage ensues! - Saving two rare 1979 Scout 4x4s from a Junkyard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2022
- Saving two 1979 Scout II 4x4s out of a Junkyard in central texas. One of which is ULTRA RARE! Watch to see the carnage that went down pulling these trucks out of their graves.
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My father was a farm vet for 51 years, we had Scouts in the family from 1962 to 1978. In 1990 I restored my first Scout. I did that for over 30 years. I LOVE this story!
Great Vid!
High praise from you all! Appreciate the support!!!
I have a scout 800 and a Scout 11.Great show !
Keep us updated on the scout ll restorations
Great editing. The closing shot was icing on the cake clever.
Appreciate the kind words! Hope to bring y’all more content
Take your time @@LottsOfVintage , we'll be here. Any car plans for the weekend?
Dual Sunroofs for the Midas was '79 & '80 only and by that grille, it's a '79. It was a $1600 option for the base setup and there were separate alacarte options.You would not believe how few Green Cruiser Packages there were in the Traveltop for '79. You can almost count them on your fingers and toes - and if you have one extra digit, you CAN count them. Very rare. It will be very costly to restore it properly... and I hope you do.. but it's rare enough to have the value at the backside of it. Step one is to get the Line Setting Ticket... the build sheet from the Wisconsin Historical Society. It will give you a lot of build info on the Scout. There was a Basic Midas Package in four colors, Blue, Green, Brown and Russet. To that you had an array of options.. the His-N-Hers being just one. That one doesn't have one option.. the painted graphics. At least what I can see of it . Midas had painted graphics as an option but yours had the duel sunroofs ($211). I think I saw the overhead digital clock ($76). If I had the VIN I could see more.
Thanks for the info, Jim! We’re trying to figure out if it definitely would have had the turbine wheels, and what type of hood stripes (if any) it would have had. Looking to go back 100% authentic. Also - any reason other than someone monkeying with it that it would have a thermoquad carb?
@@LottsOfVintage I'll send an email to the address above. With the VIN, I can help a lot. The T-Quad was original. Turbine wheels (called Polycast) were 1980, so it wouldn't have had them
@@LottsOfVintage In case you didn't know, Jim Allen literally wrote the Scout Encyclopedia with John Glancy. Super cool to see him chiming in on TH-cam!
This is a good truck
Thank you!
That isn't a truck. It isn't even a parts truck.
Glad to see ya'll saving these Scout IIs. Hopefully more videos to come on these.
Thank you!!!
Super sick video would love to see more of these!
Thank you!!
Good stuff! Love seeing these Binders get saved!
Thank you! Found out tonight that this is one of 21 Scout II Midas "Green" packages built! Glad we went for it!
Yea baby😎😎😎
Nice video!
12:29 The station wagon with what appears to be a sliding or removable panel on the roof on top above the cargo part of the wagon, is it an early 60s Studebaker?
Dang man a scout has been my dream truck since I was a little kid, one day maybe. Congrats on the find guys enjoyed the content!
Glad you enjoyed it!
If it has a dana 300 T case don't let anyone talk you out of it.
2:26 The one carwith the "tire," formed trunk lid, an Imperial?????
Great video, Chris! This is one of the best videos I’ve seen lately. I’m an IH guy through and through, (ask Eric) but I love anything automotive. My brother was a Mustang guy. 70 coupe was his first car. In 86 he was ready to buy his first new car. Hmmmm? Red 86 GT or black SVO. What a fun night of test driving mustangs and scaring old car salesmen! I wanted him to choose the SVO. He chose the GT. It was a blast of a car. I love hearing you nerd out on the 80’s stangs. Your passion is infectious. Welcome to the IH ‘club’.
I “rescued” a Midas Traveler from a junkyard j Charlotte about 20 years ago. It had been in a pretty severe front end crash that had bent the frame and the tub, but I was at least able to salvage the Midas parts and a few other things. I think it was a 78 model and had been in the yard since 1980. It only had 40K on it, but someone didn’t cover the engine, so it was toast. It was the same color blue with the shadow stripes as the one in this video No sunroofs, spotlights, clock or console, but fortunately did have the family cruiser third row seat. Glad you’re saving these.
Such cool stories! Very much appreciate you following and sharing your family's mustang stories, and Binder stories! 'the chase' is 75% of the fun, so can understand how much you enjoying grabbing parts in that Charlotte junkyard. Thank you for following, and make sure to follow the daily updates on instagram!
@@LottsOfVintage Love this video and it hits home for me. I have a 1978 Scout II Traveler with a Midas package. The four captain's chairs have been redone in a similar plaid, but the headliner on my top is original.
$10k new? ROFLMAO.
Congratulations. You bought scrap metal that a scrapyard would never buy crushed even if anybody would haul it because its a "compact" and half fiberglass, plastic, rubber and "plaid" by weight.
And its "super complete" except the entire interior besides the shifter and "plaid". No column - which is why you're steering it "direct" and maybe no steering gear, drag link etc. No instrument panel. Probably no wiring. No air cleaner means the 345 is full of rust and even if not "froze" will certainly need bored. Which is "problematic" with 345s and their "thin wall casting" blocks. They're basically throwaway engines which is why IH stuck to 304s in medium duty trucks and the GOOD Scouts and IH pickups. 304s also generally run circles around 345s anyway. To make the 345 seem "sporty" the other optional engine back then and one that makes a TRULY RARE SCOUT IS THE NISSAN 6-CYLINDER TURBODIESEL.
All your "edition" shit is truly hilarious especially given the "rarity" of those so-called "editions" is 100% based upon them being worthless turd polish and nobody but "select dealers" being stupid enough to order them for "stock" and THEN they were usually "loaners" for "big rig" drivers waiting for their OTR truck or possibly farmers waiting for their straight truck to be serviced. Probably the former because those "editions" are dead inline with the IH Transtar tacky factor circa the late 1970s when IH wasn't even barely holding on.
They also got handed to parts departments and salesmen as "company trucks" and many Scouts of that "vintage" never LEFT the dealer lot. I did my tech school "internship" at an International Trucks dealership in Lincoln, NE and ALL our "shop trucks" were Scouts. Including a Nissan turbodiesel w/manual trans and a "sporty" Scout "wagon" like that blue pile with a 345 4-barrel and GM TH350 trans. It would run pretty good and even "bark" the tires going into 2nd gear but despite being "one owner" - the dealership - and "low miles" - I think around 75,000 in 1993 - and only ever driven on pavement in the city it was pretty much a rattletrap POS. And it had the "hard top" with solid side windows instead of those joke sliders.
The Nissan diesel Scout was a "pickup" and it was a little tank. It'd start in any weather with the glow plugs and we'd put fuel in it about once a month whether it needed it or not. It was the "service truck" that went out to check out, repair or jump start/thaw out "dead" OTR trucks and with a compressor and gas-powered generator/jump "pack" in the back along with a kerosene space heater it could "rescue" damn near any "big rig" whether dead on the road or on the lot. Many times it pulled semi tractors and straight trucks into the shop from the lot and once or twice towed one a few miles on the streets of Lincoln, NE.
There is nothing "rare" about bullshit "editions" that first and foremost don't even have options that match the "package" name.
Midas was a king that turned everything he touched into gold. WTF does that have to do with that horrendous green "plaid" interior or the "his and hers sunroofs" or "spotlights" for "rear seat passengers" that were nothing but misplaced "map lights" out of Transtar semi tractors?
Absolutely nothing. Which is probably the "green plaid" is the "rarest" interior nightmare available in a "Midas edition".
I'd also be VERY surprised if those "editions" were actually "factory equipment" and not the work of some "conversion" outfit trying to cash in on the "custom" truck and van "craze" of the late 70s too late.
Sure as shit they don't remotely fit IH's "no frills work trucks" image and that's evidenced by their "rarity".