HA! You guys are awesome!
Double my 34 years in a winter? Pissssah... I've been plowing snow with cubs personally since 1985....
That is the exact reason I bought my QA-42 a few years back... However, my Simplicity 555 (noticing a trend for my passion of power equipment from "the day"?) hasn't given me a reason to mount it up!
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The guy that sold his IH pickup off in favor of Chevy's really missed the boat.. I say that as an owner of 2 GM pickups ('01 S-10 LS, '74 GMC 4x4 SuperCustom [one owner if you count me and my Dad as a single owner]), and a former member of IH's (ahem... sadly... "Navistar") engineering group (Medium Duty Powertain, Mechanical). The IH stuff is built like a brick outhouse... Chevy was cheaping out even in the '70s.
I would just about kill a man to come up with a nice clean Scout, second only to my desire to own a '73-'75 K-5 Blazer (with FULL convertible roof) to match my '74 GMC pickup! Pretty blue and white twins in the garage... That would make be a happy boy!
I've already seen a Scout II dressed in the exact same colors as my GMC... It looked awesome! So... That's on the table as well!