WATERBURY, CT – It cost only $500 and, as Mike Semanoff of Waterbury succinctly declared, “It was worth a shot.”  Semanoff was talking last month about the 1972 International Harvester Scout II that he’s owned for approximately eight years and driven cross-country three times, visiting 42 states. He regards his purchase as a risk, and would have preferred buying an old Jeep instead of a long mothballed Scout. “You never know what you’re going to have ’cause these things, they rust bad,” he said, “but it turned out to be very good. We basically pushed it across the street, …