Rust issues aside they’re mechanically bulletproof. Doors like to sag and the door hardware is poorly made. They ride rough and are stiffly sprung. The AMC 6 is a good engine and much better at pulling one than the slant 196 4 cylinder (1/2 of a 392 V8)
Friend of mine I graduated high school with invited me up to his home in Wyoming in 1997.
He had several Scouts and he took my then new wife and I in one to some really remote badlands and it was unstoppable.
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Two 1975 455 Grandvilles &
'79 455 Trans Am
‘69 Camaro SS 396/375 (owned since ‘88)
‘22 Toyota Sequoia V8
‘23 Lexus LS500 awd
‘95 Ford F-super duty 4wd 7.3 p-stroke
& countless Jeeps & off road vehicles. 
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