International Harvester Scout Specialists
Fixing your "it ran when it was parked" problems.
Proving your Scout isn't done yet. Restoration, repair, and revival for the trucks that built the West.
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Proving your Scout isn't done yet. Restoration, repair, and revival for the trucks that built the West.
There's something about a Scout that other trucks don't have. Maybe it's the bones — square, honest, overbuilt. Maybe it's the history. Or maybe it's the way one parked in a barn for thirty years still has more soul than anything rolling off a lot today.
High Desert Scouts is a small shop with a singular focus: bringing International Harvester Scouts back to the road and beyond. We restore, repair, and revive — whether your Scout needs a careful nut-and-bolt resurrection or just a few honest hours under the hood.
Every truck that leaves our shop is one we'd be proud to own ourselves.
From a stuck thermostat to a full ground-up restoration, every project gets the same level of care. Here's how we can help.
Nut-and-bolt rebuilds. Bodywork, drivetrain, interior, electrical — taken apart, made right, and put back together to outlast the next fifty years.
The "it ran when it was parked" cure. Engines, transmissions, brakes, cooling, fuel systems. We get tired Scouts back on the road and keep them there.
Resto-mod work that keeps the soul of a classic Scout with the reliability of a modern drivetrain. Fuel injection, suspension, comfort upgrades — your call.
International Scouts are our specialty — but we don't stop there. At High Desert Scouts, we bring that same deep expertise to early Ford Broncos, vintage Jeeps, and classic pickups, keeping these American icons on the road with mechanical repairs, drivetrain work, rust repair, and metal fabrication that brings tired bodies back to life. Our Grand Junction shop combines old-school hands-on craftsmanship with modern shop standards, so whether you're daily-driving a first-generation Bronco or restoring an early Jeep from the ground up, your truck gets the care and expertise it deserves.
High Desert Works is our general auto repair shop — the same careful hands behind our Scout restorations, turned to your daily driver. Oil changes, diagnostics, brakes, and maintenance done right: no upsell pressure, no rush jobs — plus full diesel repair on Cummins, Duramax, and Power Stroke. We service Ford, Jeep, Toyota, and Ineos Grenadier right here in Grand Junction, CO.
Full-synthetic oil changes, filters, fluids, and factory-schedule maintenance — done carefully, with an honest look over the rest of the truck while it's on the lift.
Check-engine lights, warning messages, hard-to-find drivability problems. We trace it to the actual cause instead of throwing parts at it.
Pads, rotors, calipers, and brake inspections that keep your rig stopping straight and true — whether it's a commuter or a trail rig.
Suspension, steering, cooling, charging systems, and the everyday repairs that keep you on the road. Straight answers, honest work, your rig treated like our own.
Full diesel repair — Cummins, Duramax, and Power Stroke. Diagnostics, maintenance, injectors, turbos, and more, done right, not rushed.
Your work trucks can’t sit. High Desert Works keeps local fleets on the road with scheduled maintenance, inspections, and repairs — priority scheduling, detailed service records, and one shop that knows your vehicles inside and out.
Oil changes, filters, fluids, and factory-schedule service on your timetable — we track it so you don’t have to.
Keep every truck compliant and road-legal with thorough inspections and honest repair recommendations.
Fleet customers jump the line. When a truck’s down, it gets a bay — because downtime costs you money.
Detailed history for every vehicle, every visit — maintenance records you can hand your accountant or a buyer.
They don't build them like this anymore. We make sure the ones they did keep running.
Work happening on the floor right now. Check back — these move fast once the bodywork is done.
Not every job is a full build. Here's some of the day-to-day work going out the door.
Scout IINew vent rubber and Bilstein steering stabilizer
Scout IIYellow Scout II in and out of the shop
Finished trucks from the High Desert Scouts shop, ready for a new garage. This is what’s available right now.
For sale by High Desert Scouts LLC — Grand Junction, CO. Serious buyers nationwide welcome.
Shirts, hats, hard-to-find Scout parts, and the occasional restored truck. Add to your cart right here — checkout runs through our Shopify store.
Looking for a part you don't see listed? Give the shop a call — we can usually track it down.
Whether it's a quick question, a quote, or a full project — drop a line. We answer every message ourselves, usually within a day or two.