Re: Favorite IH truck?

Posted by Buzzman72 on January 31, 2004 at 08:06:34 from (67.241.15.130):

In Reply to: Favorite IH truck? posted by 26Red on January 30, 2004 at 10:21:45:

First, I'd suggest you visit www.oldihc.org . Next, I'd recommend you check eBaymotors, under "Commercial Trucks" and "Other" categories, as well as "International Harvester" under the "passenger vehicle" category (don't know why it's there, but there's no listing under "Trucks". After the first time at eBaymotors, just go back daily, and under the categories, check out "new today" so you don't have to sort thru all the same stuff you looked at yesterday.

Right now, I have both a '51 L-112 and a '52 L-112 pickup. Being partial to the L-series ('50-'52), I'm considering the idea of a LC-160 thru 180 series, known as a 'snubnose' when I was a kid because of the semi-COE construction (not unlike the later BC-series, the forerunner of the Loadstar), while still retaining the L-series cab.

My idea, borrowed from the streetrod community, would be to set the sheetmetal over the running gear of a late-model ton cutaway van, and power it with an IH 345 or 392 and a 5-speed (once upon a time, there were a lot of potential donor schoolbuses out there for the engine and tranny). My fantasy would be to build an oversize "pickup" bed, and set the truck up with a hidden gooseneck/removable 5th wheel setup, as well as a class III/IV receiver hitch just for multipurpose flexibility.

But that's just my personal idea. My family's farm equipment repair business used a '44 K-5 16' flatbed with a GRD-214 flathead 6 as a tractor hauler, and I never particularly liked it...it'd run all day, but it was a slow trip when you came to a hill and you had 2 H's or M's on board...so I'd recommend later-model power, and probably later brakes to go with the power.

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