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thats what my friend called it. I had never seen one: 1960 IH Scout with a slant 4 engine, half of an IH V-8 engine. Dist cap was for a V-8 but half of the holes for plug wires were capped over.
 
I worked for an equipment dealer who was a IH truck dealer when the Scouts first came out. Our shop truck was a half cab 3 speed 4 cylinder it even had sliding windows instead of roll ups. It was geared was too high,it would barley put itself up hill in 3rd.(but it would run 60 in 2nd)
 
Marilyn's college roomate's husband had an International half ton ( I think) with a slant four. I saw it forty years ago and haven't seen another.
 
I've never heard 'em called a "sidewinder", but I've seen a lot of 'em, a grossly overweight and underpowered, but nearly indestructible 4 cylinder.

They were made in 152 and 196 CID versions, half of a 304 or 392. But WHY???

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Well it was sort of popular around the early 1960's when you had your first tilt at smaller and more economical. The era that spawned the Falcon, the Corvair, the Valiant, the aluminium blocks from GM (that became Rovers in UK)

And when Pontiac also had a similar lopped V8 to make a 4, with a transaxle. Don't ask me what it was sold as.
 
And IIRC the Buick block of that GM aluminium engine was the basis of the Repco-Brabham Formula 1 winner of the era
 

Up until IH introduced the Scout, your only other choice was a Willy's Jeep. IH brought out the Scout, couple of years later Ford introduced the Bronco, and then everybody jumped on the bandwagon.
 
The leaning tower of power is what we usually called it and the Dodge slant 6. As to why - as said by another person its a lot easier to cut off a bank of cylinders than redesign an engine. Plus they were extremely tough being half a heavy truck engine. Chevy did the same with the 4.3 V6 by cutting 2 cylinders out of a 350 V8. Ford kind of did the same with their 3.8 by borrowing heavily from their 302.
 
Sidewinder was only used in referance to the John Deere 114 and 116 hay baler. Engines like that were called a slant and in IHC case a slant 4, Chrysler a slant 6. Now never had a Scout but that was about all I ever heard of them having in them when they were new. The bigger engines came later. Think I was 16 when they first came out. Would have liked to have one.
 
The Pontiac version of the cut in half V-* was put in the Tempest and Lemans. They were real odd balls with front engine but rear rear mounted trans axles. They were avilable in several HO ratings and One of them was half of the Hi-Perf GTO engine. Had 11-1 pistons, 4 barrel carb and a big cam. My sister had one of those in a 61 Tempest and it was impressive when you put it to the wood.
 
Another thing is that the smaller slant 4 engine could be machined and assembled on the same production lines and with most of the same tooling as the V-8s. International did not have the high production volumes as the bigger companies, so not having to invest another $50 million or more on a new engine production line for a low volume product was probably a big consideration.
 
Toyota 2TC 1600 and 3TC 1800 were 1/2 of a Chrysler Hemi reverse engineered to be vertical. The Mercedies 300SL had a "real nice" slant 6. Jim
 
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