International Harvester Corporation of Chicago began selling light trucks in 1907continuing to the last IHC Scout Terrace were built as models from 1980International pickup truck production continued until 1975, with post-war models including the K/KB series, L-Series, R-Series, S-Series, A/B series, C-Series And D-Series. Today Jewel of a car graveyard is a C-series half-ton, found in a self-service cemetery in northeastern Colorado recently.
International Harvester was dismantled and reorganized in the 1980s, but you can still find International trucks created by Navistar International (now owned by Volkswagen Group) up to the present day.
The International C-series truck (including the Travel everything proto SUV and Carrycot The crew cab pickup was built for the 1961 through 1964 model years, and IHC was proud advertising that it “had not become soft” just like the competition.
Because it’s “designed by truckers to do truck work,” the C Series could be purchased with human-sized V8 enginesThis one, however, has the base 240-cubic-inch pushrod inline-six, with its 141 hp and 224 lb-ft.
The transmission is a manual for three on the floorA three-speed automatic transmission was availablejust like four-wheel drive.
You couldn’t get air conditioning in the ’63 C-Series, but you did Get enviably simple heating/ventilation/defrost controls.
You had to pay extra for the heater. It wasn’t until the early 1970s that heaters became standard equipment in American cars and light trucks (due to regulations requiring a windshield defroster that blew warm air).
I still find IHC pickups at junkyards in Colorado, plus many Scouts.