{"id":258,"date":"2008-01-16T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:49","slug":"4h-ih-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/4h-ih-scout.html","title":{"rendered":"4H IH Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Oak_Mount_Float_and_IH_Scout.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/b\/b5\/Oak_Mount_Float_and_IH_Scout.jpg\/600px-Oak_Mount_Float_and_IH_Scout.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The float aside, that bright red truck is the focus here (also seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:4H_kids_in_an_IH_Scout_by_Mobil_Station.jpg\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:4H_kids_in_an_IH_Scout.jpg\">here<\/a>)  The owner of this truck was a forward thinker: the shiny,  new truck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Oak_Mount_Float_and_IH_Scout.jpg\">seen here<\/a> was from the first year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/Off+road+cars+and+trucks\/articles\/5\/International+Harvester+Scout\">International Harvester made the Scout,<\/a> its answer to the Jeep.  At the time, tractor manufacturers weren&#8217;t specifically tractor manufacturers: they made all kinds of motorized stuff beneficial to farmers.  IH saw a need for a heavy-duty farm vehicle that Willis&#8217; Jeep was fulfilling, and came up with the Scout.  Ford eventually followed with its Bronco, but the gas-conservation of the 70s mostly killed off these smaller versions of what we&#8217;d call an SUV.  You may not know, but <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/cars\/down-on-the-street\/1980-international-harvester-scout-ii-328828.php\">IH made the Scout until 1980<\/a>: that&#8217;s almost 20 years on the road.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-4928671443861784478?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The float aside, that bright red truck is the focus here (also seen here, and here) The owner of this truck was a forward thinker: the shiny, new truck seen here was from the first year International Harvester made the Scout, its answer to the Jeep. At the time, tractor manufacturers weren&#8217;t specifically tractor manufacturers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,50,300,172,522,43,521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}