Papa's Last Scout.. HEY I can hope can't I??

Last weekend we packed up the kids, made a lunch, grabbed some snacks, and some cash and headed off down the road to pick up this new beast.. :) In case your wondering this is a 1963 IHC scout with a plow on the front :) Finally we have a way to plow our own driveway again!! Papa has been looking for a '4 banger scout' to drive to work and back and with the plow on the front the truck will come in useful at home too :) Apparently the engine in this little guy can get pretty good fuel mileage if you do it just right and I know Papa is looking forward to the challenge. He's actually in pretty good shape.. you can see the back fender is bent and there is a bit of rust (but he is 48 years old so a little rust is really good considering.) The boards on the top was the previous owners idea of fixing a small leak by the drivers side door, he had tin on top of the boards.. Papa took them off as soon as we got home. It does need a bit of work but Papa had it driving around within 2 hours of getting it off the trailer.. the clutch is shot but Papa says it's not a big deal. $100 part and a few hours in the shop. Good thing Papa is a mechanic at heart :) I can't even IMAGINE what we'd do with all these old rigs if he wasn't! (Actually I can (though Papa would NOT agree)... my cousin Steph once told me to "stick a rag in the gas tank, light it and RUN!!!" )

I got sick, some sort of sinus thing that's been plaguing me for months, on Thursday and told Papa "I'm going to be sick the whole way there." And I was, my poor ears could NOT pop!! Between that and the morning sickness.. We had to stop in EVERY town on the way down and finally got some mints to help with the morning sickness about 3/4 of the way there. They helped a LOT and by the time we got there I thought maybe this could be fun after all. Thankfully none of the kids got sick. We got him loaded with no troubles and headed back. We drove about 11 hours total.

Thankfully we did not have to stop at every town on the way back but we did have to stop about 30 minutes in to rearrange the truck on the trailer as the weight was on the back and making it go squirrely when ever we went over 80 ish. Even then we ended up going about 90 all the way home. We had planned on stopping at a cool park somewhere and letting the kids run around but it ended up raining almost the whole way there and most of the way back. Actually the rain stopped right as it got dark. We had not brought rain gear so we didn't stop. We did stop for supper and ate subs in a little place on the way. But even without too many delays we still didn't get home until after 1am. Baby J thought it was MORNING!!! and we had a little trouble convincing him it was NOT so we ended up getting to bed around 1:30am. The kids slept the last several hours in the truck on the way home but I saw about 50 deer on the way there and back and that prohibits sleep for me.

The next day was Sunday and Papa drooled on and crawled over every inch of him for several hours in the afternoon. Even took him for a little spin. Then we packed the kids up and took them to the local park.. with fries and let them play for a bit. After they were hot and sweaty and worn out.. we took them out for ice cream :)

We are thinking of a name for him.. Our Travelall is Polly, and all the other IHC have names so it's a given that we'd name this one too. It needs to be a male name that is short. Also something that we'd never use for a child.. He's the same color as a truck we had in Wa. named Alfred... So I thought maybe Al, but Papa says he's not naming his little scout after that stinking Chevy.. (I have to admit it was a TERRIBLE truck..I believe Auntie R still refers to it as "Rat crap" as it was hers before it was ours.) So then I thought maybe Burt.. but we're still looking. So if you have any ideas.. feel free to post them. We have a Leo, Clifford,  Jake, Molly, Polly, Scotty, and an Ambly so far.  The last IHC I posted about that he got for free isn't named either.. and neither is the med duty IHC his bosses gave him. So we need a few names :)