A Little International Love

[Tom Geiger]

Stan’s truck from Yukon Men TV show. Cut down Traveller with a Dodge bed tacked on

[Casey]

[Brian Austin]

Large archive of IHC-related items, farm machinery as well as trucks:

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS15303

 

Ex:

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM2320

Ex:

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM88103

 

 

Search term "trucks":  https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records?&facets=CATEGORIES%3a"Wisconsin Historical Images"%2cFacetSubject%3a"Trucks"

 

Drawings:   https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records?&facets=CATEGORIES%3a"Wisconsin+Historical+Images"%2cFacetSubject%3a"Trucks"%2cCONTENT_TYPE%3a"Drawing"

Edited March 12, 2021 by Brian Austin

[7000in5th]

1965 IH Loadstar Fire Truck -  Interesting front end, didn't do much for in-town maneuverability!

[plastic trucker]

That sure looks like a FWD front end that.

[Casey]

[Brian Austin]

Fire trucks are pretty much custom-built, and builders did often "borrow" cabs from major truck builders.  Too bad there are no markings on the cab to further research.

[7000in5th]

Here is another picture, I don't have any other information.

Edited March 22, 2021 by 7000in5th

[Casey]

[NOBLNG]

1953

[7000in5th]

John Lingenfelter Scout

From Charlie Lingenfelter: “John raced a 1962 2wd International Scout with a turbocharged 4 cylinder. It was an old orange Indiana & Michigan meter reading vehicle.. I believe this picture was taken at a Milan Michigan NHRA Points Meet in the fall of 1969. Note the 7″ slicks. This Scout would pull the wheels off the ground as it left the starting line. Not bad for a U/Stock race car.”

 

David Palmeter: I had the great pleasure to work with John at IH Truck Engineering. My favorite story - to improve traction, John initially ran with the spare on the tailgate. NHRA made him take it off when they found out it was filled with concrete!

 

More here:  https://palmeter.com/trucks/

[espo]

17 hours ago, 7000in5th said:

John Lingenfelter Scout

From Charlie Lingenfelter: “John raced a 1962 2wd International Scout with a turbocharged 4 cylinder. It was an old orange Indiana & Michigan meter reading vehicle.. I believe this picture was taken at a Milan Michigan NHRA Points Meet in the fall of 1969. Note the 7″ slicks. This Scout would pull the wheels off the ground as it left the starting line. Not bad for a U/Stock race car.”

 

David Palmeter: I had the great pleasure to work with John at IH Truck Engineering. My favorite story - to improve traction, John initially ran with the spare on the tailgate. NHRA made him take it off when they found out it was filled with concrete!

 

More here:  https://palmeter.com/trucks/

Thanks for the info. The thing that strikes me as being odd was that the NHRA inspection got upset about the concrete in the spare but ran this in a stock class with a non stock turbo charger.  

[Tom Geiger]

On 3/27/2021 at 10:55 PM, NOBLNG said:

1953

I love the colors on your wagon! Here’s a few more to complete the set..

[NOBLNG]

1 hour ago, Tom Geiger said:

I love the colors on your wagon! Here’s a few more to complete the set..

Sorry, the wagon is not mine☹️, just a pic I pulled off the net. Are the ones you posted diecasts? They are nice! I have a Cooper Tires diecast Willys in those colors.

[Tom Geiger]

Yes those are all Liberty Classics 1/24 or 1/25 scale. Very detailed and nicely finished. Difficult to find without tampo logos on them. 

A perfect example of diecast in our scale that we will never see as a plastic kit!  So I buy them.

[7000in5th]

3 hours ago, espo said:

Thanks for the info. The thing that strikes me as being odd was that the NHRA inspection got upset about the concrete in the spare but ran this in a stock class with a non stock turbo charger.  

But that was John's neat trick. He convinced the Scout Chief Engineer to list, with the Automobile Manufacturers Association, the turbo (and some other goodies) as Scout stock. At that time, the NHRA used AMA specs to verify stock class cars. Learning those tricks was a great benefit to John when he opened his own shop. During a tour of his shop in 1996, he already had an LS1 months before it was introduced in the 1997 Corvette.

[Casey]

Spotted this Loadstar (?) based bucket truck a few hours ago:

[Twostepn2001]

Here is a IH "tater wagon" in Hereford, Texas. Pic was taken in late '40's.

 

Another IH truck, checking air in the tires at a truck stop in DeLeon, Texas.

 

A fleet of IH trucks at a mattress factory in San Angelo, Texas.

 

A IH truck with a load of cotton bales in Robstown, Texas.

 

[Twostepn2001]

Old IH vacuum truck near Elk City, Oklahoma.

 

Groendyke Transport IH, Beaver, Oklahoma.

 

IH hot oil truck near Seminole, Texas

 

IH livestock truck, not sure of location but think it's at the Oklahoma City stockyards.

 

IH cabover cotton module hauler truck, Eola, Texas.

 

Another IH cotton module hauler truck, Roaring Springs, Texas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by Twostepn2001

[espo]

Interesting looking extended or crew cab towing the gas tanker. 

[Twostepn2001]

[Tom Geiger]

Here’s some photos I saved of some rugged survivor Internationals. 

This one is Stan’s truck from Mountain Men.  I believe it’s a Traveller cut down with a Dodge pickup bed.

And this one was on Alaska Last Frontier. I think it was a Scout.

Edited June 27, 2021 by Tom Geiger

[7000in5th]

Anyone going to the Third Annual Harvester Homecoming? A great chance to love up on a whole bunch of IH trucks and see the place where they were conceived!

Details: https://harvesterhomecoming.com/

News: https://www.facebook.com/HarvesterHomecoming

Edited June 30, 2021 by 7000in5th