{"id":3238,"date":"2022-07-28T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2022-07-28T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T23:30:45","slug":"texas-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2022\/07\/28\/texas-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our way down Congress Street in Austin last week, I was looking up at the beautiful neon signage when Finley said, “Look, there’s a Scout.” She was right: a red Scout II sat out on the street with the words\u00a0Hotel San Jose on the side; apprently it’s pretty famous there but hasn’t moved much lately by the looks of the dried leaves on the front seats. I posted a picture on Instagram and one of the local Scout owners I follow liked it and asked if I was in town on Monday; she was going to be at a car meetup<\/a> and would put the word out to the other Scout friends in town.<\/p>\n

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Sheepishly, I parked our rental Buick around back; lined up in front of the bar were a ’65 Chevy pickup, a ’70 Ford pickup, Lydia’s beautiful Scout II<\/a>, an absolutely evil-looking early 70’s Nova, a ’56 or ’57 Belair sedan, and a mid 60’s Ranchero. After I grabbed a beer, I got to talking with Lydia and she told me about how she found her Scout; presently a couple of Scout 800’s rolled in, followed by a third she’d never seen before, and then a huge lifted Traveler. I met a bunch of new folks\u2014atxscout800<\/a>, seatruckn<\/a>, and a couple of other folks not on the ‘Gram.<\/p>\n

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