Driven by the popularity of the Jeep marque and in particular the CJ, International Harvester set in the late 50s to design a capable competitor. Leveraging their knowledge and expertise from more than a half century of building tractors and trucks, IH built the Scout. It was a stout, boxy truck that quickly became wildly popular, and really stayed that way throughout its entire production run with over 500,000 produced in total.

The Scout II, which is what this for-sale-example is, was manufactured from April 1971 through 1980. It didn’t change a ton through those 9 years, but the best way to tell them apart is the configuration of the front grille. Early Scout IIs had three horizontal bars between the headlights and chrome rings around the headlights, and in 1973 switched to 14 vertical bars between the headlights, a split in the middle, seven bars on each side surrounded by chrome trim pieces and an "International" model plate low on the left side. The grilles stayed pretty similar until the 1980 MY, when it was designed with a one-piece ABS plastic grill with square headlights colored in either black or silver.

International Harvester got out of the passenger vehicle business in 1980, but recently there’s been some speculation that Volkswagen may bring the Scout name back to life after acquiring the trademark from International Harvester. If and when it happens, it’ll be an all-electric SUV.