Monthly Archives: April 2011

          There are plenty of folks on AM radio talking about the broken economy, or sports, or world events. Here in Portland, OR we need a few good AM music stations. If you have a 1979 International Scout … Continue reading →

The new winch bumpers have been fabricated and are ready to ship. This old Travelette looks much better with the new winch bumper installed:

Having acquired a low mileage inline 6 motor, my attention turned to finding a suitable truck to run it in. This morning I made an offer on a 1955 International Harvester pickup with a bad motor in it. If the … Continue reading →

The junkyard solution of the day is this Hi-Lift jack holder. In the back of a Scout II Terra there is no obvious place to mount your Hi-Lift jack. While using a speed bump like a ramp I noticed my … Continue reading →

One of my Scouts had an intermittent miss a couple of weeks ago, which tracked back to a burnt distributor cap. All of the 8 cylinder Scouts that have Holley distributors use the same cap, the predecessor to which can … Continue reading →

The 1979 Scout II was delivered last month, and was purchased from a fellow in Eastern Oregon. On the East side of the Cascade mountains the Scouts have very little rust, and can be in restorable shape. Now that she … Continue reading →