{"id":1787,"date":"2017-12-30T18:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2017-12-30T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:22:37","slug":"nine-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2017\/12\/30\/nine-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In between Scouts, nine years ago, I went up to White Marsh to look over a Scout on Craigslist. What I found was a rough example with a lot of rust, bondo, and primer. It was a non-runner, up on a trailer, and the victim of questionable aftermarket mods, the best of which was a chain steering wheel and skull shifter knob. I snapped a picture and left.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"chain wheel, death's head knob\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/2265740252\/in\/album-72157612462974114\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2188\/2265740252_2faf915941_z.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"chain wheel, death's head knob\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when a Scout showed up on Craigslist this week with the same shift knob. A little comparison shows it&#8217;s the same Scout with a new steering wheel. The rest of it looks exactly the same: rust, bondo and primer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1788\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-9.09.33-PM.png?resize=1024%2C652\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-9.09.33-PM.png?resize=1024%2C652&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-9.09.33-PM.png?resize=471%2C300&amp;ssl=1 471w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-9.09.33-PM.png?resize=768%2C489&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/00G0G_2Tqn2yof6tQ_1200x900.jpg?resize=1024%2C576\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/00G0G_2Tqn2yof6tQ_1200x900.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/00G0G_2Tqn2yof6tQ_1200x900.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/00G0G_2Tqn2yof6tQ_1200x900.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/00G0G_2Tqn2yof6tQ_1200x900.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t buy it then and I wouldn&#8217;t buy it now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In between Scouts, nine years ago, I went up to White Marsh to look over a Scout on Craigslist. What I found was a rough example with a lot of rust, bondo, and primer. It was a non-runner, up on a trailer, and the victim of questionable aftermarket mods, the best of which was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}