Photo: Weaver Customs
When one hears the name International Scout these days, the mind immediately flies to the Scout, the off-roader that we believe would have had no problems taking on the giants of today's segment. Yet more than anything, International was in the business of making agricultural equipment and trucks.
One of their most famous line of trucks was the C Series, made from 1961 to 1968. Styled like most other pickups of its age, with a certain allure you don’t find on today’s machines, it was manufactured in a number of variants, including the 1100 like the one we have here.
Well, true, not like the one we have here, because this is nothing like the C Series that used to roll off assembly lines.
The truck is the result of work conducted by Utah-based Weaver Customs. These guys say they found the truck sitting abandoned in a field in Cheyenne in 2016, and decided a rescue would be in order, so they took it home and started tinkering with it.
What resulted is a truck with a beat-down look, but that’s just a deception. It is roaming the roads as the parts hauler for the shop, spinning the one-off custom solid wheels under the power of a 5.9-liter Cummins engine, in its turn handled by means of a manual transmission. The numbers of the hardware are impressive: 650 horsepower and 1,200 ft/lb of torque.
Despite its exterior look, the would-be sleeper has its share of creature comforts, including bucket seats, a Kicker audio system, and Dakota Digital gauges.
The truck seems to be very fit for the task, with the garage saying the Grunt (that’s the nickname the truck got) more than earns its keep and is often referred to as the Employee of the Month. For now, there seems to be no talk of the truck going out on the open market.
Well, true, not like the one we have here, because this is nothing like the C Series that used to roll off assembly lines.
The truck is the result of work conducted by Utah-based Weaver Customs. These guys say they found the truck sitting abandoned in a field in Cheyenne in 2016, and decided a rescue would be in order, so they took it home and started tinkering with it.
What resulted is a truck with a beat-down look, but that’s just a deception. It is roaming the roads as the parts hauler for the shop, spinning the one-off custom solid wheels under the power of a 5.9-liter Cummins engine, in its turn handled by means of a manual transmission. The numbers of the hardware are impressive: 650 horsepower and 1,200 ft/lb of torque.
Despite its exterior look, the would-be sleeper has its share of creature comforts, including bucket seats, a Kicker audio system, and Dakota Digital gauges.
The truck seems to be very fit for the task, with the garage saying the Grunt (that’s the nickname the truck got) more than earns its keep and is often referred to as the Employee of the Month. For now, there seems to be no talk of the truck going out on the open market.
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