Cyrus Hall McCormick and William Deering (the founders of International Harvester) and Ted Ornas (the designer of the Scout and the Travelall) are probably rolling over in their graves to see what has happened to their once great name. An iconic ‘Merican brand now being slogged by an effete, woke, western European conglomerate of vehicle manufacturers who build effete, woke “automobiles”.
One of my biggest “vehicle” regrets was selling my Travelall in high school. Four people could easily sleep in the back on camping trips. It would haul as many 4×8 sheets of plywood and 2x4s as you could stack in the back – and it was a bunch, I once built a 8×8 shed with just one load (‘course the roof rack was hollering ‘uncle’).
The ’61 Scout 80 was “too cool” and too small for me back then, but I’d love to have one now.
Any form of wealth redistribution by civil government is shear folly. SC Repub party lacks any principles but Dems are far worse. This all goes back to We the People that have put these clowns into power.
Squishy123 (the original) February 20, 2026 at 5:23 pm
Well the House budget has spoken, not a single dime more to Scout Motors. So Scout can figure out where to find $150,000,000 for the project overrun. I still say they’ll never produce a single vehicle at this plant. EV consumer sales are in the toilet. Might as well start revamping the assembly line for buses and garbage trucks.
This is what ends up happening when you have crony capitalism/central planning vs. free markets. They could have just just gave Scout/VW tax breaks and built the road infrastructure and left it at that….but noooooo. Instead, they have to redistribute taxpayer money and subsidize this BS. It’s gonna end up like the nuclear plant debacle for similar reasons.
All so some SC pols can try to wet their beaks via campaign donations and board seats(Nikki Haley) while abandoning any sense of free market principles.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick and William Deering (the founders of International Harvester) and Ted Ornas (the designer of the Scout and the Travelall) are probably rolling over in their graves to see what has happened to their once great name. An iconic ‘Merican brand now being slogged by an effete, woke, western European conglomerate of vehicle manufacturers who build effete, woke “automobiles”.
One of my biggest “vehicle” regrets was selling my Travelall in high school. Four people could easily sleep in the back on camping trips. It would haul as many 4×8 sheets of plywood and 2x4s as you could stack in the back – and it was a bunch, I once built a 8×8 shed with just one load (‘course the roof rack was hollering ‘uncle’).
The ’61 Scout 80 was “too cool” and too small for me back then, but I’d love to have one now.
Any form of wealth redistribution by civil government is shear folly. SC Repub party lacks any principles but Dems are far worse. This all goes back to We the People that have put these clowns into power.
Well the House budget has spoken, not a single dime more to Scout Motors. So Scout can figure out where to find $150,000,000 for the project overrun. I still say they’ll never produce a single vehicle at this plant. EV consumer sales are in the toilet. Might as well start revamping the assembly line for buses and garbage trucks.
This is what ends up happening when you have crony capitalism/central planning vs. free markets. They could have just just gave Scout/VW tax breaks and built the road infrastructure and left it at that….but noooooo. Instead, they have to redistribute taxpayer money and subsidize this BS. It’s gonna end up like the nuclear plant debacle for similar reasons.
All so some SC pols can try to wet their beaks via campaign donations and board seats(Nikki Haley) while abandoning any sense of free market principles.