UPDATE – This 1967 International Scout 800 Sportop is for sale again a year-and-a-half since it was featured here on Barn Finds. It appears to have been cleaned up quite a bit and it has big wheels and possibly other upgrades and improvements, but you’ll have to get in touch with the seller to get the full scoop. It can be found here on craigslist in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, and the seller is asking $22,000 or best offer. Here is the original listing, and thanks to T.J. for the tip!
This is what it looked like in September of 2022. I hate to admit it, but I like the former smaller, more factory-looking wheels better, but that’s just me.
FROM 09/13/2022 – When most of us think about convertibles, we may not think about trucks, which I think of when I think of an International Scout. The company tried to make them more car-like than rough-and-ready 4x4s but they were still, for the most part, trucks. This 1967 International Scout 800 Sportop is listed here on eBay in Beloit, Wisconsin and the seller is asking an eye-watering $18,000.
That price, though. As a reference, Hagerty is at $9,200 for a #4 fair condition example and $21,600 for a #3 good condition Scout. This one is far from being a #4 so I’m not sure where the seller came up with that asking price. And, I have to mention the photos, although I had hoped to never go down that road again. They are really not good other than the first photo. They’re mostly cut-off and close-ups and they don’t show the vehicle as a whole. If anyone can clue me in on why sellers continue to cut off photos like this, please let me know so I can sleep at night.
The good part is that most of the photos do show a nice-looking Scout 800. And, the Sportop version is unique with a removable fiberglass top and/or soft top, and with the rear Continental Kit spare tire and that unique split bumper. Another unusual thing about this listing is that the seller mentions that this is a propane-powered vehicle, or it can be or it was or it will be or… but then they never mention it again. The only thing I can see relating to that is what is shown under the rear bumper in the photos above. I really like this vehicle but it’s a major head-scratcher.
There is a fair amount of body rust, however, despite how most of the exterior photos appear to show a solid body. The seller does show a few photos of the rust areas which is nice to see. These aren’t complicated, curvaceous body panels so cutting and welding should be a fairly easy task. The interior looks pretty good for the most part.
The seller didn’t provide a VIN which is somewhat unusual for an eBay auction, but the engine appears to be International’s 152-cu.in. slant-four which would have had just under 100 horsepower when new. They don’t say anything at all about the mechanical condition but it looks clean and hopefully it’ll run again. What’s your top dollar for this one?
Odd ducks these, driven by one of the Lee sisters…
Certainly not an IH Scout expert but I expect this is a rare model with the weird factory top and the oem continental kit. Been around a while and I have never seen one with these options.
Seller has three IH models listed for sale.
Interesting verbiage on how “titles were lost in a move, but are clean and can be applied for” yadda, yadda… that’s probably why the VIN is not listed. Maybe they are afraid somebody might do some sleuthing of their own?
This seems like an exercise by an amateur seller (on vehicles). Just like throwing pasta on a wall.
If it was only 100 hp on gas it will be down to 80hp or less on propane
What’s a slant 4 half of a 304 engine I guess? Ugly looking big head but rare I guess
Just like Pontiac did with the “Trophy 4”. Half of a 389.
Why ask $18k for a $2000 Scout? Because the seller sees resto-modded ones going for $70k.
Just like 70k first gen Bronco’s, overpriced turds
Worked for IHC back in 72-74, never did sell any parts for that particular model, the 800 did exist but never saw one with that top on it.
Very cool 👍
imagine it’s legit, even the weird rear bumper, spare & top.
These are hard to switch hrd top to rag. May B it’s Y this particular
model was developed (My bronk of that era is easy, the jeepster near impossible). May B it just on or off (no rag top)?
800/80 are Y I bought the bronk (when IH ‘went out of business’ as I couldn’t get 1 of those)
This yes is a SPORTTOP, LOTS OF RUST, ITS ONLY A FIBERGLASS TOP, NOT A REAL SOFTTOP CONVERTABLE
I OWN A REAL SPORTTOP CONVERTIBLE.
THEY WERE BUILT END OF 1966 TO 1968, SPECIAL ORDER ONES LIKE MINE CAME WITH A 266V8,4SP.
This one NEEDS MAJOR RESTORATION..
Our family had one of these from 1978-1981. Traded it in on a ’69 Bronco in ’81 and never regretted it. The 152 was gutless – we had to put the transfer case in 2 Lo to get up our driveway and to pull out onto the main road from our street. Dad ditched the funky bumperettes at some point – never did find out what happened to them. I remember them laying around in the side yard for awhile.
Have we all gone gearhead nuts? I would pay $22 to haul it away, certainly not 22k. For reasons beyond me to understand, although I speculate these circus atmosphere vintage auto auctions are to blame for driving up the prices on these old heaps, especially Scouts and Broncos. In my day you would only see these
underpowered tin cans in State Parks and used by Rangers. The government invested because they were cheap, cheap, cheap. Today, folks are fishing to get thousands and thousands. But in reality they are still underpowered old heaps and would require 40k to be brought up to modern day drivable condition. This one wins 1st prize for ugly duckling of them all!
jv – smashpalace
This yes is a SPORTTOP, LOTS OF RUST, ITS ONLY A FIBERGLASS TOP, NOT A REAL SOFTTOP CONVERTABLE
I OWN A REAL SPORTTOP CONVERTIBLE.
THEY WERE BUILT END OF 1966 TO 1968, SPECIAL ORDER ONES LIKE MINE CAME WITH A 266V8,4SP.
This one NEEDS MAJOR RESTORATION..
$22k for this heap of crap, $5500 for that pile of unusable Mustang parts in the other listing, I know there’s a flood of stupid money out there these days but this is really stretching the taffy.
I owned a sport top in about 72? It had this top, spare, the 4 cylinder, and a fairly rare 4 speed. Pretty slow on the highway, great off road. Didn’t keep it too long. I had a number of these old scouts when I lived in Gunnison, Colo.
but never a Scout II.
6 mo later I still like it – the top sez ‘sporty box’ a contradiction but for an ol truck restorer like me I like these jeeps (all em even off shore, altho not as multipurpose as ours till late 70s).
Thnx 4 bringin it back~
$1000.00 at best for a pile of junk that need everything…