All you want to know about the International Harvester's Scout

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An ambitious title:  International Scout Encyclopedia
By veteran journalist and 4x4 historian Jim Allen plus Scout expert and collector John Glancy. 

The Scout is/was a relatively everyday car in the US & Canada. In Europe the Scout acquired some fame as a classic import. In use by beach resort entrepeneurs, artists and other scattered individuals who loved the imposing presence of the car and didn't need to mind too much about its massive fuel consumption in view of european gas prices. 

With a foreword by the late Rod Phillips, the International Scout Encyclopedia chronicles the history of all the favorite Scout models, from the very first to the last one to leave the factory and some the public never saw. When the Scout was introduced for 1961, four-wheel drive was relatively new to the majority of the motoring public and the term "sport utility vehicle" had not been coined. International Harvester Company, best known for building durable trucks and farm equipment, was entering a market where the only serious competitor Jeep had several years start on everyone else. Over the next two decades until it was discontinued in October 1980, IH was to prove that the Scout was more than worthy of standing side by side with the big boys. The Scout had helped make four-wheel drive more mainstream by offering a recreational off roader and a daily driver in the same vehicle.
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