Re: [ihc] Galvanized Scouts

[Howard R Pletcher <n9ads@xxxxxxxx>]

Galvanized Scout bodies are something I have heard little about.  I know
of one--an early 800 that had been a Road Test Department truck with a
test Perkins Diesel engine intended for export use.  An engineer I know
bought it when Road Test disposed of it.  My understanding is galvanizing
was something that could be ordered for export units;I don't think you
could order it added to your Scout in normal production--unless you were
ordering 4,000 Scouts as Uncle Sam did.  The Postal Scouts were built
before I started and this is the first I've heard that they were
galvanized.  But this was really a special order, they even had their own
serial number sequence separate from the regular production Scouts.  

I don't think there are many, if any, galvanized Scouts running around
the States besides the Postal Scouts.

Too bad galvanized wasn't offered on the Scout II.  It would have solved
a lot of problems.

Howard


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:19:18 -0700 bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)
writes:
>  
> How many 800's are out there with GALVANIZED bodies ?? Was this 
> something unique to the Postals ??