Chicago’s International Harvester Corporation begins selling light trucks in 1907continue until the end IHC Scout Terras built like 1980 modelsInternational pickup truck production continued through 1975, with post-war models including K/KB Series, L Series, R Series, S Series, Series A/B, C Series And D Series. Today Scrapyard Gems is a half-ton C-Series, found in a self-service burial site in northeastern Colorado recently.
International Harvester was dismantled and reorganized in the 1980s, but you can still buy International Trucks made by Navistar International (Currently owned by Volkswagen Group) until today.
The International C-Series Trucks (include Travel all SUV prototype and Tourism The double cab pickup truck was produced for model years 1961 through 1964 and IHC is proud to advertised that it “doesn’t get soft at all” like a contest
Because it was “designed by truckers to do truck work,” the C-Series can be purchased with a “human-sized” V8 engine. However, this car has a 240 cubic inch pushrod inline-six engine that makes 141 horsepower and 224 pound feet of torque.
The transmission is a three-on-the-floor instructions. Three-speed automatic transmission availablelike a four wheel drive car.
You can’t get air conditioning in the ’63 C-Series, but you do Get enviably simple heating/ventilation/heating controls.
You have to pay extra for heaters. It wasn’t until the early 1970s that heaters became standard equipment on cars and light trucks in the United States (due to regulations requiring heated windshield defrosters).
I still found IHC pickup in Colorado car graveyards, plus many Scouts.
