History   My Scout is a 1968 Scout 800 that my dad purchased in the late 70's.  Like 1976 or something.  At that time it had some rust and only one gas tank.  He purchased it for $500.  You can hardly get a used Scout for that price now.  His entension when he bought it was to use it to plow snow.  And that is exactly what it did from 1978 till 1998.  It as 61000 orginal miles on it and it runs like a clock.  The only things that have been replaced are the fuel pump, starter, a value lifter and the cabuerator was rebuild.  Other than that the motor is all original.  It has a 3 speed transmission and a single lever transfer case, (this confuses me cause in '68 the transfer case had 2 levers). When i first started the project of restoring the Scout i realized right off that i had some serious problems. 1: its didnt have the orignal driver of passenger seats, floors, body supports or kicker panels.  All that stuff have been replaced with whatever my dad had laying around.  The second problem was that it had neither of the original gas tanks, sometime during its 20 years of plowing snow the 1 that my dad had fell out and he lost it somewhere.  My other obvious problem was RUST.  Rust and a lot of it. This is what my Scout looked like when my dad first got it.  (That is the orignal color).    HOME