Here's my '67 Scout. I bought from the Post Office so its steering wheel was on the right. Had lots of fun with it, especially when the hard top was off.
1967 Scout, retired Post Office truck
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The USPS Scouts were a breed of their own, with special serial numbers and equipment not available in regular production Scouts. Was it an automatic? I ask because there were a few postal contract Scouts with manual transmissions to cope with hills and such. An even smaller number had four-wheel drive. I have never run into survivors in either category, so if this one had a manual trans from stiock, it would help my research to have the VIN.
Sorry I don't have the VIN any longer, I sold Scout around 1980. It was an automatic and in the records that came with it the gear shift lever had been replaced many times. It snapped off for me one very cold winter night. I drove quite a while using a vise grip on the stub of the lever until I could find a replacement - just one of many "adventures" with Scout!
