Galvanized Scout bodies are something I have heard little about. I know
of one--an early 800 that had been a Road Test Department truck with a
test Perkins Diesel engine intended for export use. An engineer I know
bought it when Road Test disposed of it. My understanding is galvanizing
was something that could be ordered for export units;I don't think you
could order it added to your Scout in normal production--unless you were
ordering 4,000 Scouts as Uncle Sam did. The Postal Scouts were built
before I started and this is the first I've heard that they were
galvanized. But this was really a special order, they even had their own
serial number sequence separate from the regular production Scouts.
I don't think there are many, if any, galvanized Scouts running around
the States besides the Postal Scouts.
Too bad galvanized wasn't offered on the Scout II. It would have solved
a lot of problems.
Howard
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:19:18 -0700 bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)
writes:
>
> How many 800's are out there with GALVANIZED bodies ?? Was this
> something unique to the Postals ??