Ok, so Fort Wayne, Indiana isn’t technically Detroit, but the Scout — in all of its incarnations —  is one of the four most significant proto-SUVs ever to travel American pavement (Wagoneer, Blazer, Scout, Travelall), the latter two of which were born of International Harvester. This ‘79 Scout II sports the important Rallye package, whose middle-English spelling referred to a 12th century practice of foisting mediocre horses on the dim-witted public by “paynting strypes” to make them look “rallye, rallye gud.” Chaucer later admitted he’d made the whole thing up in his posthumously released sequel, Canterbury Fail. This specimen not only has the 1970s version of exclusive alcantara seating (i.e., plaid), but a recent paint job that probably exceeded factory spec by a factor of 10.

[via Detroit ‘79]