scout/land rover

[andy gladish <gladish@domain.elided>]

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:26:47 -0700, Joseph M. Shaw, II wrote:

>If I'm not mistaken, most of the military Land Rovers I'm picturing in
>my mind are the old style, thus 4 cyl. 4 or 6 cyl, they were pretty
anemic power wise but just kept on going.
(IHC material follows) I think that the scouts were the US equivlent --
over engeneered where it counts and fixable with minimal tools on the
trail.

Well, Ahem, That is......
When IHC stopped trying to do a knockoff of the Jeep (Scout 80) they
came up with a great general purpose vehicle (Scout 800). HOWEVER,
putting Dana 27's front and rear on a 3500 pound vehicle is a really
poor choice. I agree that most of the early Scout is very well designed,
if you set aside the Jeep hardware. It has a way of not letting you
forget it for very long at a time, though...
Andy
61 Scout
69 lawn ornament (used to be a 1200)