Chicago’s Worldwide Harvester Company started promoting mild vans in 1907, persevering with till the final IHC Scout Terras had been constructed as 1980 models. Worldwide pickup manufacturing ran by way of 1975, with postwar fashions together with the K/KB-Series, L-Series, R-Series, S-Series, A/B-Series, C-Series and D-Series. In the present day’s Junkyard Gem is a C-Collection half-ton, present in a northeastern Colorado self-service boneyard just lately.
Worldwide Harvester was dismantled and reorganized through the Nineteen Eighties, however you’ll be able to nonetheless purchase International trucks made by Navistar International (now owned by Volkswagen Group) to at the present time.
The International C-Series truck (which included the Travelall proto-SUV and Travelette crew-cab pickup) was constructed for the 1961 by way of 1964 mannequin years, and IHC was proud to advertise that it “hadn’t gone soft” just like the competitors.
Because it was “designed by truck males to do a truck job,” the C-Collection could be purchased with “man-sized” V8 engines. This one has the bottom 240-cubic-inch pushrod straight-six, although, with its 141 horsepower and 224 pound toes.
The transmission is a three-on-the-floor manual. A 3-speed automated transmission was available, as was four-wheel-drive.
You could not get air-con within the ’63 C-Collection, however you did get enviably easy heater/vent/defroster controls.
You needed to pay additional for the heater. It took till the early Seventies for heaters to be customary tools in U.S.-market vehicles and light-weight vans (resulting from laws requiring a windshield defroster that blew heated air).
I still find IHC pickups in Colorado automotive graveyards, plus many Scouts.