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I love working on LBCs and have enough of them in the barn waiting on restoration to keep me busy until I’m 120. About a year ago my son and I decided on a Jeep ‘CJ’ project which is really a Wrangler backdated to look like a mid 70s CJ. That project is moving along nicely since I now have a place to work on it and once finished it will free me up to work on LBCs. Well, that changed on Tuesday with another 4wd to restore. We found a running 345ci 1975 IH Scout 2 for $700 that’s not a rust bucket to resurrect into a driver. It was originally a close match to Iris Blue, then Orange, and now the pink-beige you see pictured. It will end up as a restomod, but we are unsure at this point of how far we will go. Call me crazy.
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Do love an Intersmashinal! Well done and those puppies are getting collectable enough that you will never go wrong at that price!
 

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Not crazy at all, just in deep.

I figure I've got one more slot in my shop, and it's saved for some sort of classic 4x4. They're all good fun.
 
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Intersmashinal. Yup, used that term.
But usually "Cornbinder".

Several shops I ran....we did work on Cornbinders, big and small....down to old pickups.

One thing that always shall I remember.

Call up to order parts.
The IH Dealers asks for year.Got it.
VIN. Got it.
Model. Got it.
Month of production. Got it.
Day of production. Got it.

Now, bring the old part in to match it up.

Got an executive with IH once to admit the problem. Probably just before he retired.

Getting ready for the year's production run.

Expediters are assigned to obtain a certain number of units from outside sources.

Let's say, brakes.

Expediter goes to GM, needs 15,000 sets for this particular model run.
They can provide 9,000. I'll take 'em.

Couple months into the run, gets a panicked call, running low on brakes....oh, carp....runs off to Ford.
Ford can give him 3,000. I'll take 'em.

Couple months later, another call.
Off to Dodge. They can give you 2,000 units...and I'll take them.

Close to the end of the run, another call....off to Kelsey Hayes for the last 1,000....and nobody kept records....and you could have four (or even more) different manufacturers of parts for your year, make and model......and I gave up.
 

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Looks good just the way it is. A wash and buff and it will be better than new !
 

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It's a disease isn't it? I'm still knee deep in the '53 Plymouth and probably will be for at least another year, but still see cars that get my attention and make me think "I wonder if I should stop and look into this one?"

Scouts, Broncos and Jeepsters are the new "cool cars" for the hipster generation. It's like the kids that grew up in SUVs like the idea of having an old one.
 

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Nah, you're not crazy. Dumb as a post, mebbe. But not crazy....
 

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Scouts, Broncos and Jeepsters are the new "cool cars" for the hipster generation. It's like the kids that grew up in SUVs like the idea of having an old one.

There is a commercial currently running with a young couple driving a first gen bronco. And It is amazing to me how many posters in fashion stores have models in and around classic cars - not cars - that has always been thus but classics
 
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Nah, you're not crazy. Dumb as a post, mebbe. But not crazy....

I think you nailed it! My son and I just sprayed the interior of the Jeep with bedliner (Raptor) and it looks great...gives me hope for the Scout project. BTW, the Raptor bedliner kit gives a finished product that’s as good as or better than the professional job I had done on my pick em up truck. Once we get the Scout driving, stopping and steering we’ll make a decision about the rest of it. Merry Christmas everyone!
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I have had to thin out my stable of "awaiting restoration" cars. I calculated that I would be 150 years old when I completed them. I'll probably be tired of doing car work when I'm that age.
 

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Got a kick out of this post! Appears we are all afflicted with the same disease! One good thing about the Scout, Rut, the top is off so you can enjoy those impassable back road's that you just didn't want to take your Spridget down sans top.

Kurt
 
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