TMCP #384: Sean Barber; Anything Scout and New Legend 4×4 – The Business of Providing Parts and Building Cool (and Niche) Off Road Rigs!

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Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I had the privilege of doing something rare; an interview with a local shop! I traveled across Ames to do a rare live interview with Sean Barber, owner of Anything Scout and New Legend 4x4. Believe it or not, but in the small college town of Ames, IA lives one of the premier businesses in the world of International Scout parts, supplies, and custom builders. This interview tells their story of specializing in the niche of Scouts - and of going ALL IN on the business of choosing the custom route for them vs factory restorations.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 384.
0:04.1	This week, a horse of a different color, well, actually a scout of a different color.
0:08.4	Our guest is Mr. Sean Barber, owner of a business here in Ames, Iowa of all places, called Anything Scout.
0:15.3	Actually owns two businesses.
0:17.0	The first is Anything Scout.
0:18.5	The second is called New Legend 4x4.
0:23.8	Now, it may be tough to believe, but in the little college town of Ames, where Scholastics and software startups reigns supreme, lies one of the coolest and rarest
0:31.3	businesses dedicated to, you guessed it, the International Scout. Well, at least that's how it started.
0:37.1	And what went from a company that just provided factory replacement parts
0:40.7	and that did service work where they could get it,
0:43.3	transitioned immensely when they decided to start building the scouts
0:47.3	they wanted for themselves and a new company even came out of it.
0:51.8	And Bernie, in your edited interview, go 1239 to 1255 in your edited interview.
0:57.8	In 2012, we had decided, like, we're going to change, for our small world, we're going to
1:03.5	change the paradigm of scouts and go, like, we're not going to rebuild any old engines
1:08.0	anymore.
1:08.9	We're going all in on modern technology. And that
1:12.5	angered a lot of people.
1:16.0	This is
1:16.8	the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:20.3	Brought to you by National Parks Depot.
1:22.9	This is the weekly show
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