Mom's '74 Scout

[ihscoutmatt]

January of last year my parents picked up a '74 Scout II for my mom she had had a '72 as a daily driver for a few years and had wanted another ever since we found what we thought to be a nice starting point 304/3spd/d20 very nice looking body






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[ihscoutmatt]

According to the previous owners son it had been restored around '94 and driven very little since so first thing was to get it running which wasn't really that bad it had a newer holly 2300 on it that got a rebuild and I had a Prestolite distributor in my shed from an '80 so with a new cap and rotor we added electronic ignition new plugs and wires fuel pump, lines and poly tank we were up and running

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[ihscoutmatt]

Not many pics going through the process but all new suspension and brakes tires and wheels

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[wrkshop]

How do you like the fiberglass?

 

[ihscoutmatt]

How do you like the fiberglass?

This is a steel body

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[Mater]

Love your scouts. You gotta save one for me!

 

[ihscoutmatt]

Love your scouts. You gotta save one for me!

Thanks, more pics of this one coming when I get a chance it's turned into a full blown frame off build

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[Mater]

Call me. 870405 5229.

 

[ihscoutmatt]

Call me. 870405 5229.

Will do I'm at my parents house now I'll give you a call when I leave

 

[wrkshop]

How do you like the fiberglass?

I guess it is. It looked like the end cap and rear quarters were seamless. Nice looking rig.

 

[ihscoutmatt]

I guess it is. It looked like the end cap and rear quarters were seamless. Nice looking rig.

Lol yeah they actually did a good job filling the seams

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[Mater]

Will do I'm at my parents house now I'll give you a call when I leave

Got your message. I'll call you Friday after 3:30pm.

 

[BigRigg]

Looks really good matt! I like the paint.

 

[Arkansas Dave]

cool ride Matt that is a nice Scout II.

Arkansas Dave

 

[ihscoutmatt]

Alright so catching up, the p/o did a wonderful job of hiding rust, bondo and really crappy patch jobs

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[ihscoutmatt]

You can see in the second pic that the front fender is starting to shed its bondo and is nearly rusted in half rockers are full of bondo the front floors were patched and held together with a combination of bondo, seam sealer and silicone so after alot of thought and weighing pros and cons we decided to swap tubs luckily I still had my '77 SSII body it had rusty quarters but but nice floors, rockers, body mounts, windshield frame and a passenger side fender

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[ihscoutmatt]

This pretty well gets us to now, tub still off in the process of swapping rear quarters firewall is painted and while we've got easy access to it we decided to go ahead and swap the 3spd for the t18 we pulled last summer the frame will get cleaned up and painted the t18 and d20 are resealed and painted and the motor will be cleaned and detailed

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[ihscoutmatt]

Got a little more done today t18 painted and mounted and the frame wire wheeled and painted

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[Mater]

Got a little more done today t18 painted and mounted and the frame wire wheeled and painted
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Nice! What type of paint did you use on the frame?

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[ihscoutmatt]

Rustoleum professional, so far it seems to have done really good

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