Junkyard Find: 1972 International Harvester Scout II

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Junkyard Find: 1972 International Harvester Scout II

01 - 1972 International Harvester Scout II Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin Here in Colorado, Scouts are all over the place, which means that Denver-area wrecking yards get a steady stream of worn-out or abandoned examples. So far in this series, we've seen this '70, this '71, this '73, and this '74, and I've skipped over a bunch of totally-stripped Scouts that weren't worth photographing. Today's find has donated a lot of parts to the local Scout ecosystem, but still intact enough to be of interest.
07 - 1972 International Harvester Scout II Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin The IHC V8 was a heavy, farm-equipment-grade brute. There's probably some easy way to tell a 304 from a 345 at a glance, but I don't know what it is.
08 - 1972 International Harvester Scout II Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin The smog sticker says it's a 345, but owners of these trucks have always been notorious engine-swappers. Hey, why is there a California catalyst sticker on a '72? This junkyard goes by VIN records when determining model year, so I suspect that some VIN-swapping magic was performed by a previous owner and we're really looking at a late-70s Scout.
06 - 1972 International Harvester Scout II Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin IHC made a Rallye version of the Scout II, but this looks like a homegrown decal job.
09 - 1972 International Harvester Scout II Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin It's not incredibly rusty, but there's no reason to restore a truck like this when you can buy nicer runners for reasonable prices in Colorado.