Front Seats are out

Today I spent 3  hours trying to get the bolts out in order to take the front seats out. Man who would have known that a 33 year old trucks bolts would be rusted. LOL. Anyways, I was able to soak them with PB Blaster and I finally was able to get out 3 bolts on the passenger side and 2 bolts on the drivers side. Had to grind off the others but it's now done.

Also took out the seat belts. Now those were the easiest bolts to remove. Why? Not sure but they are also out.

Next on the block will be to remove the rusted floor pans.

Time to take the Carpet Out

I just spent 2.5 hours ripping the old nasty shag carpet of the passenger area of the Midas Scout.

This picture is after I removed the Shifters. Carpet still in.







It's amazing what you find under the carpet. A receipt from 1983 where the previous owner purchased some wax.

Here's the Drivers side floor pan. Notice on the left side there's a hole. 














We the good news is the floor pans are shoot but everything else under the carpet is in good shape.

Yes it will take some work but the floors well be nice and new when I'm done.

Update: Tailgate

 Well it's been awhile since my last update.

Last weekend Tyler and Justin helped out by cleaning out the interior. They cleaned the dash, Shifters, side walls, Vacuumed the 70's shag carpet (this is NOT going to stay in here) Fixed the seat belts, They did a wonderful job.

Now this weekend I was trying to get the tail gate open. For some reason (maybe because it's 33 years old) the tail gate just wouldn't come done.

I took apart the tail gate latch to see if it was even working. Looked good so my guess was it just hasn't been open in years.

I used this stuff called PB Blaster. Man does that stuff work good. It's kind of like WD-40. Let is sit for about 4 hours. Hit the button....nothing. Got out what I call the "PERSUADER" (large screw driver) to see if I could move the latch. Nothing. Then all the sudden I hear it.... a click. Hit the button again and yup the tail gate released. Not I can get back there without climbing over the gate.

I think I'll take her down to the shop and gut the interior... Well not all the way, just take off the headliner, side panels, and door panels. 

Also need to look at the DUAL sunroofs. Yup DUAL... I think that's a 70's thing too.

Scout is at home now

Well I finally took delivery of my 1979 International Scout II with the Midas Conversion.

Look what I found

Look what I found today. This is a 1979 International Scout II Midas brochure.
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This is what my new Scout will look like one day

Finally :)

Today I finally received a call from a Auto Transporter that is willing to ship my Scout. Looks like I will be receiving this on Wednesday. So exited

Tyler and Justin are very excited to start this new project. That's what Fathers and sons do...