Dad bought a new '73 Scout we held on to for 47 years til he passed away & had to let it go. My 07 FJ Cruiser was a good sub but now the magic's back!
FJ Cruiser filled the need for 51 years of missing Scout
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Nice, it amazing how the FJ has been able to hold it value. I love the design of the doors on the FJs.
I feel you - my dad bought a '77 SSII brand new (and being my frugal dad of course ordered it with the 4 cylinder tractor engine) BUT that's the car I learned to drive in, the car I drove to high school - until the alternator held on with bailing wire and rust killed it, and the car I still miss.
I've been filling that void with Xterras, which in many ways were the spiritual successor of the Scout, on the "everything you need an nothing you don't" path, AND don't tend to rust out. My current one just turned 100k (still have the first, my youngest daughter is driving it) and I'll keep right on driving my Xterra until one or the other of my Scout reservations are in my driveway.
I've been filling that void with Xterras, which in many ways were the spiritual successor of the Scout, on the "everything you need an nothing you don't" path, AND don't tend to rust out. My current one just turned 100k (still have the first, my youngest daughter is driving it) and I'll keep right on driving my Xterra until one or the other of my Scout reservations are in my driveway.
I don’t think anything ever really took the place of Scoutsie, but my parents had a Saturn VUE that they said was sort of like a distant relative in that it was a no-frills and no-nonsense li’l SUV that wasn’t ostentatious or gas-guzzling, it just did the business and rode up a bit higher (a benefit to artificial knee-havers like my dad).
I went to look at an FJ Cruiser for someone else. I don’t remember the year, but I remember being shocked by how little interior room there was relative to the entire vehicle size. Maybe that was a model year anomaly? I’m 5’3” and there wasn’t much clearance for my head in the back seat. Darn, I wish I remembered what year that was. They looked a little bit like Scouts and I was bummed that the interior was submarine-ish because from the outside they were really cool.
I went to look at an FJ Cruiser for someone else. I don’t remember the year, but I remember being shocked by how little interior room there was relative to the entire vehicle size. Maybe that was a model year anomaly? I’m 5’3” and there wasn’t much clearance for my head in the back seat. Darn, I wish I remembered what year that was. They looked a little bit like Scouts and I was bummed that the interior was submarine-ish because from the outside they were really cool.
My parents were shocked to find that I had discovered our Scout's roof could easily be removed. My high school friends and I made roof-off road trips across California and the Southwest that summer of '79... probably not much chance of that feature making it back into production but, one can always dream...
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