The real beauty of the Steve Mags channel is that prior to watching this video, I never gave 40's-50's International Harvester trucks a second thought. After the video....I'm fascinated by them.
“Everybody seemed to survive just fine” great line which could be applied to so many things , I had many siblings yet my parents never even owned a car seat for children.
Yes very true with many things today. Seems like everything is in a big brother “nanny state”.. but, I will say that for the exception of seat belts. I’m a trucker and seen accidents where people were ejected from roll overs and killed. So for the most yes I’d agree, for the exception of seatbelts.
Morning Steve, I was getting ready to fire up my Bridgeport at work, seen this video & had to comment, probably 35 years ago I bought a 1948 KBR8 out of a scrap yard, it was supposed to run, I had it shipped to a yard where I could work on it, it had a 372 Red Diamond, I dropped the oil pan, installed a new oil pump, gave it a major tune up, truck ran great. It had a home made wrecker body....sadly to say when I quit wrenching heavy truck, it was sold to a guy out west.....great video Steve!!! Be safe!!! God Bless!!
Before I watch the rest of this I have to say something; that intro with the weed-whacker brought back a lot of nostalgia/memories! I used to mow lawns for money as a kid/teen in the early 2000's. My dad told me he found another lawn I could add to my route, but he'd have to drive me there and I'd have to use the property's equipment. It was a big lot at the end of a cul-de-sac, with weeds up to the waist all around the fences and buildings. The mower he had me use was a rear driven self propelled behemoth for a 13 year old, but it was doable. Then he handed me the weed-whacker, the same as you're using to clear around the cars that are as old as it is! I knew what it was luckily, because we found one in the rafters of our old garage. Two hours of whackin' it and an hour of clean up and he gave me 15 bucks. Safe to say I just stuck to my block after that lol.
No matter what the vehicle, you can make it very interesting with a wealth of knowledge and incredibly an old magazine article. You present so well all of the information. Hats off to you.
Hi Dan Heiking, I truly enjoy "giving cars (and trucks) a voice". If I could, I'd sit back and just listen. Every one has a thousand stories to tell. But they aren't talking! So I try to do a little bit of it for them. THANKS for watching and writing, Steve Magnante
Thanks for the International video! My dad and grandpa had both of those models. Dad hauled furniture all over the country with both the KBS-8 and the R200. Great trucks!!
the switch (pull knob) on the side of the shifter is for an air=shifted 2-speed axle which allowed split shifting or just higher road speed when lightly loaded . My Dad drove both models KB & R as snowplow/dump sanders for Hwy Dept on 24 hr call up and I got to play in them in the garage!!
While air shift does exist for 2 speed axles this one is electric. Typically they are split shifted, so a 5 speed trans and 2 speed axle gave you 10 gears. I drove many of these, 50,000 pounds and an underpowered gas engine you couldn't tolerate the RPM drop between shifts of just the transmissions.
Great video again Steve excellent research and facts. The braking systems of the late 60 Medium duty trucks is a fascinating topic Hydra Boosted Master cylinders were just being introduced by GM but they also offered a variety of vacuum assist boosters and early air brakes The problem was the Gas engines idle camshafts didnt produce a lot of vacuum at idle So like lightening in a bottle the plan was to use many tanks/receivers. The flaw was the interconnecting tubing and fittings and the valves They would leak all the vacuum they stored! We had a small fleet of R200 s we used to collect scrap with, we pioneered an early roll off using dump truck boxes. I just saw you video on Macks It was great or “Heavy Haul” tractor we pulled the tin scow with was a B 61 Thermodyne Mack She would pull a house down! Keep up the great work your videos are really fascinating
Hello Philip Petays, if you like Diamond T trucks you'll "dig" the 2-part video I did on a mid-1930's Diamond T 6-wheel truck and its frame mounted chain driven scoop shovel. Look for it in the Play List for this Junkyard Crawl video series. The videos appeared live about a month or two ago. I hope you enjoy them, Steve Magnante
Hello Stephen youtubin, I am not much of a clean freak. Tidy? Yes but when I do the Junkyard Crawl, I know I'm going to crawl and get dirt on my shirt (hey that rhymes....). My hope is that some day the shirt will become "self aware" with soil and go do the videos for me. I'll toss it my glasses and sit back while it goes off and makes these videos. That's my hope anyway. Plus, as I used to say to my Mom when she'd say: "clean your room!", I'd say "Why? It's just gonna get dirty again...". THANKS for writing, Steve Magnante
Th R series were the ones I remember seeing on the road for what seemed like forever, garbage trucks & dump trucks and so on. As a kid I even had with my Aurora HO race set an R series tow truck. I even got to drive one once in my twenties. The township in lived in at the time had an ex Illinois state snow plow that they used for plowing snow along with a newer one and during the extraordinary winter of 1978 - 79 they had to keep the trucks out almost 24/7 for a two week stretch to keep the town from being isolated from the next towns that had grocery stores. The township was using anybody that could drive because the two regular employees couldn't keep up alone.
Hydrovac is not air brakes! The single chamber Master cyl (connected to the pedal) hydraulically actuates a single chamber slave cylinder (under the drivers seat) that has vacuum assist. The slave under the passenger seat runs into T's that splits hydraulic pressure to all four wheels. Modern fork lifts still sometimes use the exact same setup (I speak as someone who's rebuild a KB7 brake system and you have to go to Napa and look at the forklift catalog to find brake parts for these)
Hydrovac is not air brakes, its hydraulic. It's sort of like vacuum assist on a car, except there is a master and slave cylinder. The engine vacuum acts on the slave cylinder, giving it more boost than if it was just acting on the master.
That is NOT a flat head black diamond engine. They are both red diamond overhead valve engines. I have 3 R series trucks. One with the 501 red diamond is a R-185 from 1968. They did not stop making the R series in 56. I assure you. ---Doozer
Note to self, dont open that door on the heater box of that R series and stick your finger in there! 🤣 My dad used to haul a bulldozer with a R series international, when I was about 11 years old I rode with him and the heater box has a little door on it you can open up, as a curious boy i opened it and stuck my finger in there and it took the hide off the end of my finger, there was a metal squirrel cage blower fan in there! I'll never be able to look at one of those trucks without remembering that!
Those engines are actually overhead valve, they just have a very shallow valve cover. They are both likely Red Diamond engines, inspite of what their current color may be. Black Diamond engines were light line engines.
Great look into how we lived before everything got too scary.😂. I'm from Alaska and grew up driving old stuff like that. You pay better attention when you know you might die...
As a Truck driver I enjoyed this episode, However as a Classic Car , Street Rod enthusiast who grew up in the shadow of G.M. Tweedy plant in South Gate Ca, I am more interested in the moss Green colored 1967 Chevelle next to the International Dump Truck. subscribed.
Steve great video but that is a not a black diamond because all black diamonds are overhead valve I’m a little rusty on IH motors but I believe they are red diamonds because the r200 has a 2 barrel carb and split exhaust manifold/dual exhaust They are definitely not a green, silver or blue diamond they might be a FAB but I can’t remember when they were built
The K series in this video is a refrigerated van. The hole in front of the box is for the refrigeration unit. The rack on top of the cab is for driver or tech to access the unit. The rear brakes shown are “S” cam brakes. The left side chamber is a 30/30 unit, half of it for the parking brake. The right side appears to be an OEM unit. Not sure if that has a parking brake chamber on it.
They still make International trucks. They're the biggest name in the medium duty sector. I was a tech at an International dealership in the early 2000s.
Man I like those old international trucks! I also had build some of them trucks in 1/24 scale when I was a teenager in the 70s. Great looking trucks! Sad seeing them rotting away to the elements! Thanks for the history lesson Steve!👌😎👍
In my youth I was shipped off to a private school in New York where we were allowed to have paying jobs on campus. I waited tables in the dining room and I worked on a service crew that did small maintenance jobs on the property. They had an International KB-8 dump truck just like that dump truck. Had to park it on a hill since the 6 volt battery didn’t hold a charge very long and the brakes were less than good so you had to get way ahead of where you were going if you wanted to stop where you planned. Had a ton of fun driving that thing picking up leafs and spreading cinders when it snowed. Wouldn’t give up that experience for anything.
Although you weren't asking me, I will answer your question.😁 In comments about another video, several people asked the same question. Steve responded that he found the pointer to be too short for pointing out certain things. So he went back to using a stick.😁
Definitely not fast I believe the r200 in the video has a 250hp red diamond 501 lots of torque but no top speed. compared to a cummins 180 it was a very competitive engine in the trucking industry
considering there were no real highways in that era, there was no real need to go much over 50 mph. I drove some early Macks and while they couldn't get out of their own way (by today's standard) they could certainly move a mountain at a snail's pace.
The International TransStar Cabovers were the best looking of the bunch. My brother had a 75 Kenworth Cabover red and white but it looked doggy compared to the CornBinder!
I remember (when I was a youngster in the '60s-'70s), my folks had an old IH 2-ton farm truck. I know that it looked like that R-series. But I don't know what year it might have been. I do recall that it had a V8, backed by a "4 & 2" (4spd, with low/high sides) trans. And I recall that it had bucket seats. It had somewhere around a 12ft (maybe 12-1/2ft) grain bed, with very short bed sides.😁
The cab on a R model is the same all the way down to a half ton pickup I had one 25 years ago I put on a Chevy blazer frame was a fun truck it’s still around to this day ! They also made a cab over R model as well
Having owned a few Aussie Cabover Internationals (ACCO 1610A The A meant 1973) and earlier late 60's I enjoyed the ownership experience despite their being underpowered compared to more modern diesel offerings. Design wise though the venerable 345 and 392 gas engines running on Propane (LPG) were an incredibly well balanced ownership experience and for what I used mine they were a great thing. ACCO is an acronym FYI denoting Australian C-line Cab Over meaning their manufacture on the C assembly line but id suggest on a US design chassis. That R Model would make a great project! BTW, I believe you may have captured a seldom seen Massachusetts Sasquatch in the background mid nesting ritual denoted by its distinct blue coverall plumage :-)
Yes, IHC became Navistar around 1986. In the past few years, VW bought them. At one time, a lot of municipalities bought them for their fleet, but then they started to lose ground to the likes of Freightliner, KW, Peterbilt, Mack and others. When the diesel particulate mandate came around in 2007, Navistar took out an ad in trucking magazines touting how they didn't need the DPF and all of that. Well, they were in reality living on EPA credits that they had earned. When those ran out, the Navistar engines had trouble meeting the standard and they were forced to go to Cummins, their competitor to supply engines and even today, you can buy a Navistar truck with a Cummins engine.
Obviously I could be wrong about this... But, weren't the lug bolts/nuts on those old IH trucks reverse-threaded (meaning that when changing a tire, you had to turn the lug wrench opposite of what we are now used to, in order to loosen them)??
IH had been supplying the KB's to the US government at the start of WW2 for the military. They shipped a bunch to Russia as part of the lend/ lease program during the war and Russia copied them. China then copied them and built their copy up into the 1980's
4:33 The International 'farmer on a tractor' logo first appeared on the R series trucks in 1953. The R series ran from 1953 to 1954. The S series was introduced in model year 1955. The 'farmer on a tractor' logo appeared in literature around 1945.
Well Steve, technically the brake on the K series is similar to a car with the vaccum booster. Air assisted hydraulic uses a different chamber on the end. Oh, maybe I'm typing early, I'll wait until you're further in to correct myself in case it has an air compressor.... aah air chambers, Ok I stand corrected so it works backward to what I was thinking then.... the other has the system I'm used to
Of course you know there is always someone watching these videos having a vision of how one of these occasionally forgotten vehicle makes and models would make a unique rod and has been driving past a specimen every day on the way to work…
Interest in take on the logo. I worked for them in the early 70s. I always thought of it as the I for ih over the h. That Hydro vac should be essentially power brakes using vacuum assist just like nowadays but those pots in the back have me confused. That manual did say assist over hydraulic.
Being in late 30s in nc.i remember my dad and neighbors all had atleast 1 international truck used for farming. The older boys(13-16) would work harder to get to move the truck from pt. A to B 😅
Not many people know this factoid, but I-H also produced refrigerators in the 1950's as well. My grandma had one, with the script logo font (like 'Chevrolet' of the early 50's). It was probably due to the emerging 'Frigidaire' market produced by General Motors. What were they thinking??
OK Steve, while sitting in the left side of that Dodge pickup, riding to Horn Lake, your book could’ve been on old trucks. I know this by looking at what you’ve shown in this video. Both trucks are most likely previous to 1950. Both are air brake, which surprises me, while they both have flathead hot water sixes. The K series doesn’t have park style air brake chambers, and the size of what it does have it very large in diameter compared to what I expected after not seeing hydraulic type, or air over hydraulic. The R series has an older Rolock spring brake chamber on the passenger side, and a more modern 3030 spring brake chamber at the driver side. Again, still surprising to see air brake on a truck of that age, and flathead. My first repair job bigger than a bicycle flat tire, or LOF in a tractor, was to replace the rocker cover gasket on a 53 Red Diamond engine in our truck with a bed dump hoist. I was 11. I then learned about using thread for holding the gasket to that long cover. Ultra gasket sealer wasn’t in the works yet. And, I flipped the hood off the side to the ground for better access, another lesson.
I just went to see one of these that is on a hiking trail abandoned in the city i live in. It has the black diamond engine just like this. I got to take an up close look and that tin on top really does look like a valve cover. The spark plugs go into the other side of the engine quite a ways down. the head is quite thick and the manifold come out of the head. Is this actually a flathead? I'm going back to the trail with tools to pull off that cover and see if I see rockers.
The real beauty of the Steve Mags channel is that prior to watching this video, I never gave 40's-50's International Harvester trucks a second thought. After the video....I'm fascinated by them.
Yes. Me too.
And no DEF fluid!!!
Not a farm vehicle but I drove an International Harvestor Scout when I was in the Army 66-68. Loved it’s off-road capability
“Everybody seemed to survive just fine” great line which could be applied to so many things , I had many siblings yet my parents never even owned a car seat for children.
Yes very true with many things today. Seems like everything is in a big brother “nanny state”.. but, I will say that for the exception of seat belts. I’m a trucker and seen accidents where people were ejected from roll overs and killed. So for the most yes I’d agree, for the exception of seatbelts.
1984 is gone forget about big brother. Welcome to the 90s where the government is YOUR MOTHER. - Scatterbrain
@@carmudgeon7478yeah well the car industry believed that safety did not sell and that ain't cool
We must have Party approved correct thinking about these things
@@samholdsworth420 "cool" is not the government's job. Neither is forcing on us "safety devices" we don't want. (I'm talking to you, airbags)
That's amazing on that IH logo explanation.
A continuation of the Lowery "Shell" oil and later on, the Avanti scripts. A very smart guy who took simple forms and made them icons.
I’m learning new stuff all the time, keep them coming Steve.
Morning Steve, I was getting ready to fire up my Bridgeport at work, seen this video & had to comment, probably 35 years ago I bought a 1948 KBR8 out of a scrap yard, it was supposed to run, I had it shipped to a yard where I could work on it, it had a 372 Red Diamond, I dropped the oil pan, installed a new oil pump, gave it a major tune up, truck ran great. It had a home made wrecker body....sadly to say when I quit wrenching heavy truck, it was sold to a guy out west.....great video Steve!!! Be safe!!! God Bless!!
Before I watch the rest of this I have to say something; that intro with the weed-whacker brought back a lot of nostalgia/memories! I used to mow lawns for money as a kid/teen in the early 2000's. My dad told me he found another lawn I could add to my route, but he'd have to drive me there and I'd have to use the property's equipment. It was a big lot at the end of a cul-de-sac, with weeds up to the waist all around the fences and buildings. The mower he had me use was a rear driven self propelled behemoth for a 13 year old, but it was doable. Then he handed me the weed-whacker, the same as you're using to clear around the cars that are as old as it is! I knew what it was luckily, because we found one in the rafters of our old garage. Two hours of whackin' it and an hour of clean up and he gave me 15 bucks. Safe to say I just stuck to my block after that lol.
always watching you at bedtime your videos are so soothing
The intro theme song is a nice touch, good videos Steve!!!!
No matter what the vehicle, you can make it very interesting with a wealth of knowledge and incredibly an old magazine article. You present so well all of the information. Hats off to you.
Hi Dan Heiking, I truly enjoy "giving cars (and trucks) a voice". If I could, I'd sit back and just listen. Every one has a thousand stories to tell. But they aren't talking! So I try to do a little bit of it for them. THANKS for watching and writing, Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante Thanks Steve, that new introduction is great. Perfect music to your vigorous weed cutting. Keep that one for a while.
Absolutely love your stuff Steve! Can't wait to see what's coming up next!
Thanks for the International video! My dad and grandpa had both of those models. Dad hauled furniture all over the country with both the KBS-8 and the R200. Great trucks!!
Thankyou for doing trucks steve.. great videos.
Now I can’t unsee “the man driving a tractor”, thanks Steve
the switch (pull knob) on the side of the shifter is for an air=shifted 2-speed axle which allowed split shifting or just higher road speed when lightly loaded . My Dad drove both models KB & R as snowplow/dump sanders for Hwy Dept on 24 hr call
up and I got to play in them in the garage!!
While air shift does exist for 2 speed axles this one is electric. Typically they are split shifted, so a 5 speed trans and 2 speed axle gave you 10 gears. I drove many of these, 50,000 pounds and an underpowered gas engine you couldn't tolerate the RPM drop between shifts of just the transmissions.
Great video again Steve excellent research and facts. The braking systems of the late 60 Medium duty trucks is a fascinating topic Hydra Boosted Master cylinders were just being introduced by GM but they also offered a variety of vacuum assist boosters and early air brakes The problem was the Gas engines idle camshafts didnt produce a lot of vacuum at idle So like lightening in a bottle the plan was to use many tanks/receivers. The flaw was the interconnecting tubing and fittings and the valves They would leak all the vacuum they stored! We had a small fleet of R200 s we used to collect scrap with, we pioneered an early roll off using dump truck boxes. I just saw you video on Macks It was great or “Heavy Haul” tractor we pulled the tin scow with was a B 61 Thermodyne Mack She would pull a house down! Keep up the great work your videos are really fascinating
very interesting again, if you ever come across an old Reo truck please give us a rundown on the history of that line.
Hello Philip Petays, if you like Diamond T trucks you'll "dig" the 2-part video I did on a mid-1930's Diamond T 6-wheel truck and its frame mounted chain driven scoop shovel. Look for it in the Play List for this Junkyard Crawl video series. The videos appeared live about a month or two ago. I hope you enjoy them, Steve Magnante
More International stuff please! Love em! 👍
Steve sure does love that shirt.
Hello Stephen youtubin, I am not much of a clean freak. Tidy? Yes but when I do the Junkyard Crawl, I know I'm going to crawl and get dirt on my shirt (hey that rhymes....). My hope is that some day the shirt will become "self aware" with soil and go do the videos for me. I'll toss it my glasses and sit back while it goes off and makes these videos. That's my hope anyway. Plus, as I used to say to my Mom when she'd say: "clean your room!", I'd say "Why? It's just gonna get dirty again...". THANKS for writing, Steve Magnante
Never knew the meaning behind the updated logo. Pretty neat.
Th R series were the ones I remember seeing on the road for what seemed like forever, garbage trucks & dump trucks and so on. As a kid I even had with my Aurora HO race set an R series tow truck. I even got to drive one once in my twenties. The township in lived in at the time had an ex Illinois state snow plow that they used for plowing snow along with a newer one and during the extraordinary winter of 1978 - 79 they had to keep the trucks out almost 24/7 for a two week stretch to keep the town from being isolated from the next towns that had grocery stores. The township was using anybody that could drive because the two regular employees couldn't keep up alone.
So nice to see that the owners of this salvage yard did not crush these gems when scrap metal prices were high.
Thanks for looking at these big trucks. Grandad drove OTR for CW Transport back in the day, the old man as well so it's in our blood.
I'm always learning something from you Steve. Thank you.
Those rims would look pretty cool in brushed aluminum
Great comparison. I was a mechanic at an IH dealership for 20 years you got this pretty good Steve. We’ll done.
You're amazing Steve all the knowledge some cool stuff good job thank you
Hydrovac is not air brakes! The single chamber Master cyl (connected to the pedal) hydraulically actuates a single chamber slave cylinder (under the drivers seat) that has vacuum assist. The slave under the passenger seat runs into T's that splits hydraulic pressure to all four wheels.
Modern fork lifts still sometimes use the exact same setup (I speak as someone who's rebuild a KB7 brake system and you have to go to Napa and look at the forklift catalog to find brake parts for these)
I said the same thing till I saw the brake cans on the rear end. Those are NOT juice brakes, although they may have been on the front end.
Hydrovac is not air brakes, its hydraulic. It's sort of like vacuum assist on a car, except there is a master and slave cylinder. The engine vacuum acts on the slave cylinder, giving it more boost than if it was just acting on the master.
Air over oil design
NO, NOT AIR OVER OIL. Vacuum assist
@@gman77gas incorrect.
That is NOT a flat head black diamond engine. They are both red diamond overhead valve engines. I have 3 R series trucks. One with the 501 red diamond is a R-185 from 1968. They did not stop making the R series in 56. I assure you. ---Doozer
....makes me want to do a full brake job on an IH with over and under wheel cylinders.. Steve sure has a way of bringing back a lot of memories!
Enjoyed it Steve, that was an interesting fact about the emblem , man on a tractor, I never knew that . Thanks
I used to think , who cares about all these stupid facts about old cars . Now I love these episodes . Love watching them everyday
I did not know that the emblem ih was 2 tires and the farmer head! Thanks man
Note to self, dont open that door on the heater box of that R series and stick your finger in there! 🤣 My dad used to haul a bulldozer with a R series international, when I was about 11 years old I rode with him and the heater box has a little door on it you can open up, as a curious boy i opened it and stuck my finger in there and it took the hide off the end of my finger, there was a metal squirrel cage blower fan in there! I'll never be able to look at one of those trucks without remembering that!
Kudos to your videographer on your videos.
I never knew that about the International Harvester logo. Now I won't be able to un-see it. 😊
Just imagine if Mr. Loewy had designed a logo for a motorboat company?!!
Thanks Steve ,learn something new every video
Hey Steve you didn’t mention the button and the vacuum tube on the shifter………it’s for the high and low 2 speed rear axle
Those engines are actually overhead valve, they just have a very shallow valve cover. They are both likely Red Diamond engines, inspite of what their current color may be.
Black Diamond engines were light line engines.
They are not BD series,I had in the past 2 BD240s and a 264.The bigger gas engines were RDs.
Great look into how we lived before everything got too scary.😂. I'm from Alaska and grew up driving old stuff like that. You pay better attention when you know you might die...
Very cool, I still have a few unbuilt 4300 trucks!!!!
As a Truck driver I enjoyed this episode, However as a Classic Car , Street Rod enthusiast who grew up in the shadow of G.M. Tweedy plant in South Gate Ca, I am more interested in the moss Green colored 1967 Chevelle next to the International Dump Truck. subscribed.
When I was a kid in the 60s our school buses used the R 200 . I remember that hood and fenders.
Steve great video but that is a not a black diamond because all black diamonds are overhead valve I’m a little rusty on IH motors but I believe they are red diamonds because the r200 has a 2 barrel carb and split exhaust manifold/dual exhaust
They are definitely not a green, silver or blue diamond they might be a FAB but I can’t remember when they were built
Those are Red Diamond engines and they are overhead valve.
I love the channel!!! Never know what you gonna see!!!!
The K series in this video is a refrigerated van. The hole in front of the box is for the refrigeration unit. The rack on top of the cab is for driver or tech to access the unit. The rear brakes shown are “S” cam brakes. The left side chamber is a 30/30 unit, half of it for the parking brake. The right side appears to be an OEM unit. Not sure if that has a parking brake chamber on it.
They still make International trucks. They're the biggest name in the medium duty sector. I was a tech at an International dealership in the early 2000s.
I have a 55 IH 1/2 ton sitting on my dad’s farm, really cool to see the similarities with the big truck.
Hey Steve love your channel also love the Massachusetts x-ray
Incredibly interesting stuff! Thank you.
Man I like those old international trucks! I also had build some of them trucks in 1/24 scale when I was a teenager in the 70s. Great looking trucks! Sad seeing them rotting away to the elements! Thanks for the history lesson Steve!👌😎👍
👍 seems everyone loves IH but no one talks about them , as far as anything bigger than pick em ups & tractors 🤷♂️ 😆 .. 🤗 good vid , ✌️🤙
the engines are ether 450 or 501 overhead valve , blocks are the same stroke is different.
In my youth I was shipped off to a private school in New York where we were allowed to have paying jobs on campus. I waited tables in the dining room and I worked on a service crew that did small maintenance jobs on the property. They had an International KB-8 dump truck just like that dump truck. Had to park it on a hill since the 6 volt battery didn’t hold a charge very long and the brakes were less than good so you had to get way ahead of where you were going if you wanted to stop where you planned. Had a ton of fun driving that thing picking up leafs and spreading cinders when it snowed. Wouldn’t give up that experience for anything.
Hey Steve, I seen you pointing with a branch there, what happened to the pointer you got ?
Although you weren't asking me, I will answer your question.😁 In comments about another video, several people asked the same question. Steve responded that he found the pointer to be too short for pointing out certain things. So he went back to using a stick.😁
Steve, you forgot to tell us what those knobs on the shifter are for. Love your videos.
I love the looks of the "K" series cab. Would make a great looking car-hauler.
Imagine how slow these trucks were by today's standards. Fully loaded, I'll bet top speed was under 60 mph. Those things were built like tanks though.
I own a scout 80 that originally had the 152 ci slant 4. It would go 55. But the little engine was screaming to do it. It had a 4.27 rear axle in it.
Definitely not fast I believe the r200 in the video has a 250hp red diamond 501 lots of torque but no top speed. compared to a cummins 180 it was a very competitive engine in the trucking industry
considering there were no real highways in that era, there was no real need to go much over 50 mph. I drove some early Macks and while they couldn't get out of their own way (by today's standard) they could certainly move a mountain at a snail's pace.
My grandfather had an International heating oil truck. Think Model T speeds.
@@seed_drill7135 I bet it pulled like a train at 25 mph.
another cool history lesson! Steve do a short video of all the creepy crawlies you run into making your videos!
I live in the quad cities and international or IH was home base so to speak for many years here, scouts were everywhere at one time
Steve: I still own an IH truck with a chain driven conveyor mounted on it. Great truck.
The International TransStar Cabovers were the best looking of the bunch. My brother had a 75 Kenworth Cabover red and white but it looked doggy compared to the CornBinder!
I remember (when I was a youngster in the '60s-'70s), my folks had an old IH 2-ton farm truck. I know that it looked like that R-series. But I don't know what year it might have been. I do recall that it had a V8, backed by a "4 & 2" (4spd, with low/high sides) trans. And I recall that it had bucket seats. It had somewhere around a 12ft (maybe 12-1/2ft) grain bed, with very short bed sides.😁
The cab on a R model is the same all the way down to a half ton pickup I had one 25 years ago I put on a Chevy blazer frame was a fun truck it’s still around to this day ! They also made a cab over R model as well
Very interesting and informative 👍 great job Steve🇺🇲
Didn't know Lowey designed the IH trademark. Great fan of his. He also designed the Avanti and the lazy S Studebaker trademark and h
Having owned a few Aussie Cabover Internationals (ACCO 1610A The A meant 1973) and earlier late 60's I enjoyed the ownership experience despite their being underpowered compared to more modern diesel offerings.
Design wise though the venerable 345 and 392 gas engines running on Propane (LPG) were an incredibly well balanced ownership experience and for what I used mine they were a great thing.
ACCO is an acronym FYI denoting Australian C-line Cab Over meaning their manufacture on the C assembly line but id suggest on a US design chassis.
That R Model would make a great project!
BTW, I believe you may have captured a seldom seen Massachusetts Sasquatch in the background mid nesting ritual denoted by its distinct blue coverall plumage :-)
Steves knowledge comes through again. Never knew about the I.H. logo. neat . How does the governor actually control the carb ?
Thx Steve. 😁👍
We just finished restoring and old 1961 R 200 dump truck! Wasn't easy finding parts!
I couldn't help but keep focusing on the 67 Chevelle in the background.
That was good. Keep on crawling!
I bet those were stunning when new
Show the Ford Courier in background. Had on back in early 1980's. A beater, but never failed!
What a beautiful time ❤️
Yes, IHC became Navistar around 1986. In the past few years, VW bought them. At one time, a lot of municipalities bought them for their fleet, but then they started to lose ground to the likes of Freightliner, KW, Peterbilt, Mack and others.
When the diesel particulate mandate came around in 2007, Navistar took out an ad in trucking magazines touting how they didn't need the DPF and all of that. Well, they were in reality living on EPA credits that they had earned. When those ran out, the Navistar engines had trouble meeting the standard and they were forced to go to Cummins, their competitor to supply engines and even today, you can buy a Navistar truck with a Cummins engine.
I learned a lot. I love your video Steve. Do you have an idea what an R 200 with a diesel would cost new in the mid 1960s? Just cab and chassis.
Obviously I could be wrong about this... But, weren't the lug bolts/nuts on those old IH trucks reverse-threaded (meaning that when changing a tire, you had to turn the lug wrench opposite of what we are now used to, in order to loosen them)??
Great video!
Cool Corn-binders, but is that a 67 Chevelle in the background?
that poison ivy breaks me out just seeing it on the video .
IH had been supplying the KB's to the US government at the start of WW2 for the military. They shipped a bunch to Russia as part of the lend/ lease program during the war and Russia copied them. China then copied them and built their copy up into the 1980's
4:33 The International 'farmer on a tractor' logo first appeared on the R series trucks in 1953. The R series ran from 1953 to 1954. The S series was introduced in model year 1955. The 'farmer on a tractor' logo appeared in literature around 1945.
Well Steve, technically the brake on the K series is similar to a car with the vaccum booster. Air assisted hydraulic uses a different chamber on the end. Oh, maybe I'm typing early, I'll wait until you're further in to correct myself in case it has an air compressor.... aah air chambers, Ok I stand corrected so it works backward to what I was thinking then.... the other has the system I'm used to
Of course you know there is always someone watching these videos having a vision of how one of these occasionally forgotten vehicle makes and models would make a unique rod and has been driving past a specimen every day on the way to work…
You should make a musical montage of you galloping over cars to get away from all the wasp/ hornet nests you must find-
Wow, great info, great trucks!!!
Interest in take on the logo. I worked for them in the early 70s. I always thought of it as the I for ih over the h. That Hydro vac should be essentially power brakes using vacuum assist just like nowadays but those pots in the back have me confused. That manual did say assist over hydraulic.
@ the 4:14 minute mark is that a 67 Tempest in the back ground?!
Steve's funny. Someone sends him a pointer but he still likes to just use his hands or a stick lol.
Did I see a split exhaust manifold on that later model box truck? I bet it make a wonderful exhaust note in its day.
Being in late 30s in nc.i remember my dad and neighbors all had atleast 1 international truck used for farming. The older boys(13-16) would work harder to get to move the truck from pt. A to B 😅
Not many people know this factoid, but I-H also produced refrigerators in the 1950's as well. My grandma had one, with the script logo font (like 'Chevrolet' of the early 50's). It was probably due to the emerging 'Frigidaire' market produced by General Motors. What were they thinking??
Remington made filing cabinets and Smith and Wesson makes the tie-bar holddowns for GM roller can engines.
OK Steve, while sitting in the left side of that Dodge pickup, riding to Horn Lake, your book could’ve been on old trucks. I know this by looking at what you’ve shown in this video.
Both trucks are most likely previous to 1950. Both are air brake, which surprises me, while they both have flathead hot water sixes.
The K series doesn’t have park style air brake chambers, and the size of what it does have it very large in diameter compared to what I expected after not seeing hydraulic type, or air over hydraulic.
The R series has an older Rolock spring brake chamber on the passenger side, and a more modern 3030 spring brake chamber at the driver side. Again, still surprising to see air brake on a truck of that age, and flathead.
My first repair job bigger than a bicycle flat tire, or LOF in a tractor, was to replace the rocker cover gasket on a 53 Red Diamond engine in our truck with a bed dump hoist. I was 11. I then learned about using thread for holding the gasket to that long cover. Ultra gasket sealer wasn’t in the works yet. And, I flipped the hood off the side to the ground for better access, another lesson.
And I truly appreciate your knowledge!
I knew I had heard that voice before , ten plus years ago at Barret Jackson . What are you doing in New England ?
I just went to see one of these that is on a hiking trail abandoned in the city i live in. It has the black diamond engine just like this. I got to take an up close look and that tin on top really does look like a valve cover. The spark plugs go into the other side of the engine quite a ways down. the head is quite thick and the manifold come out of the head. Is this actually a flathead? I'm going back to the trail with tools to pull off that cover and see if I see rockers.
Do they come with that matching Chevelle?
My friend's Cord has an opening windshield like that
I wish i still had my 65 Scout with 196 4 cylinder 4.10 gears and all wheel drive.