I bought my son an International Scout when he was in high school. If you don't know what a Scout is, it's a forerunner of the present day SUVs. It was
two, not four, wheel drive with a manual transmission and a Nissan diesel. I thought
that there was no way in hell that kid can hurt this International truck.
WRONG
The diesel quickly went south three times so I found a used Nissan diesel salvaged from
a forklift. That engine lasted maybe six months. The kid was really a careful
driver and he drove so slow it would drive me nuts. He wasn’t the problem.
I found a Chevy 3/4 ton panel truck that had been rear
ended with a 350 V8 and a truck Hydramatic.
This combination proved to be magic. It was bullet proof and went like a scalded assed ape. We never had problems from
that day forward. We had the Scout for maybe twelve years with no
problems.
It is one of the many vehicles that I wish I still had.
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