{"id":1608,"date":"2016-02-11T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2016-02-11T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T04:30:41","slug":"the-scout-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2016\/02\/11\/the-scout-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scout that Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know International Harvester was toying with a new design for the Scout in the late &#8217;70s, and the pictures I&#8217;ve seen of it turned my stomach in disgust. <a href=\"http:\/\/truckyeah.jalopnik.com\/have-a-look-at-the-1980s-international-scout-that-never-1758491270\">Today I stumbled upon this article, which contained pictures of a prototype<\/a> I&#8217;d never seen before:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1609\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype.jpg?resize=800%2C450\" alt=\"prototype\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not as ugly as the SSV, but about as bland as a cheese sandwich. Still, if I squint, I can see the Scout II windshield; it looks like they stuck an Astro van nose on the front and just sketched in the rest. And they took the Hoffmeister kink out of the rear window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1610\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype2.jpg?resize=800%2C450\" alt=\"prototype2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prototype2.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know International Harvester was toying with a new design for the Scout in the late &#8217;70s, and the pictures I&#8217;ve seen of it turned my stomach in disgust. Today I stumbled upon this article, which contained pictures of a prototype I&#8217;d never seen before: Not as ugly as the SSV, but about as bland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-pW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}