Scout Traveler Spirit of '26 SUV
International Harvester built seventeen Scout Travelers and Traveltops for the U.S. Ski Team's run at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, ten of the Traveler and seven of the Traveltop. Every truck ran a V8, four-wheel drive, an automatic and a two-speed transfer case, wrapped in white with red and blue stripes and Ski Team decals on the fenders. The livery sold well enough that IH spun it into a retail option called Spirit of '76: a 100-inch wheelbase truck in Winter White with a Wedgwood Blue interior, a matching roll bar, a denim blue Safari soft top and Rallye wheels under bigger tires, plus a hardtop version called Patriot. Fifty years later, Scout designer Dongwon Kim redrew those same stripes onto the body lines of the new Traveler electric SUV for a one-off called Spirit of '26, swapping the old Ski Team crest for a hidden combine-harvester graphic as a wink to International Harvester's farm-equipment roots. Scout built just the one, a tribute to the anniversary rather than the start of a new line, at least for now.

