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TramwayGuy 
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 1:08pm |
 1968 International 1200 4WD with 345 V8, pop-up Alaskan Camper, owned by a friend of mine from New Hampshire. He got it in Arizona.
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ACinSC
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 1:54pm |
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Nice truck ! Haven't seen any International pick-ups in a long time . Thanks for sharing
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 4:53pm |
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Do you have more pictures?
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Darwin W. Kurtz
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 6:06pm |
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Wow, that's a neat truck
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 6:25pm |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 9:20pm |
 Rare day to see cool stuff like that. Thanks!
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 9:35pm |
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had a red one and a blue just like that the blue one was a 67 it my first pickup bought it when i was 14 for fifty bucks couldnt afford a battery so i allays parked on a hill for a month i had a denny insted of an alternator so it would run the ignition andthe philco radio out of a ford that looked like it was installed with a cutting torch among other things. i guess thats why i always liked c w mcalls song classified ad
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Darwin W. Kurtz
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Posted: 13 Apr 2023 at 10:14pm |
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A Ford part on an International......they always said to use genuine IH parts from your IH dealer! I had an early 70's red one a few years ago that I thought I would restore but didn't and someone came by and needed an old truck just to drive and since I hadn't much in it I let them have it.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2023 at 8:44am |
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I used to have an Alaskan camper. Neat campers.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2023 at 4:58pm |
My grandpa had one the same year/color. When he passed away my brother bought it as he needed a vehicle as he was turning 16.
I had a 1972 that was painted Burnished Gold (a funky brown) from the factory, my nickname for the truck was "The Brown Streak".
My dad had several 1970s Travelalls, a 1975 200 4X4- the thing was a beast, 1958 A120 4X4 long box step side and still had the livestock racks for the sides. After he semi-retired from farming he fixed up a 1958 Golden Jubilee.
Later after the '68 was no longer drivable, my brother bought a 1972 Camper Special that was loaded to the gills, 392 engine, bucket seats, AM/FM radio, A/C, etc... Found out Winnebago bought it and used it for their advertising for the pickup campers. The factory is about 25 miles from where we lived so it made sense as to why it was in the area. Even found an ad in, I think Popular Science, that featured that truck.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2023 at 8:33pm |
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saw a net old truck at an IH dealer today, was a restored 1955 IH 2 ton flatbed, had sid boards on it stating: RED TOYS for GOOD 'OL BOYS
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Posted: 15 Apr 2023 at 5:31am |
 TramwayGuy wrote:
owned by a friend of mine from New Hampshire. He got it in Arizona. |
Always like to see old I-H trucks.
Though, I do feel sorry for the truck; left in Arizona, it would still look that good in a couple hundred years; it won't fare so well in the North-East.
Another typical sad Kentucky story = way back in the good ol' days, my back-fence neighbor's father had a 4x4 I-H 3/4-ton about the same model as that one; except, his was a darker blue and stood up off the ground quite a bit more.
Back then, it was just another old truck, except that for around here it was unique in that it was 4x4; as rough steep and muddy as it always has been, surprisingly, it was quite rare for anyone to own a 4x4 = extra expense that nobody could afford.
Being teenagers, we drove the wheels off that thing; whether it was possum hunting in some back cornfield in the middle of the night, or watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the local drive-in for the forty-seventh time (they played it almost every week for years).
I would have (and still would) cut my little finger off to have that truck.
Alas, one of the local money men actually had money to buy it whereas I never would have, so he bought it to use on his farm.
As time passed, just a few years ago, it ended up sitting in the front lot at one of the local junkyards --- still very much driveable.
I saved cans, picked up Walnuts, babysat, and took to stealing, but never could manage the $800 asking price.
Then, a couple years ago, scrap got really high and the crushers started making their rounds from yard to yard, and that perfectly good driveable I-H 4x4 truck got smushed to smithereens right along with all the rest.
It makes me even sicker than I already am to think about it; it is worse than when they shot Ol' Yeller.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2023 at 7:10am |
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Hmm, well to each their own I suppose. I’ll grant that truck looks pretty neat in a nostalgic way. We owned a 3/4 ton 2 wd ‘70. About the biggest pile of crap to ever roll on a highway. Oh, lots of memories to be sure, most due to hilarious circumstances that came about from its crappiness.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2023 at 8:10am |
yep...im with Tbone.. I had a 1969 Chuby 20 .. 2 wheel drive with a straight 6 motor and wide ratio 4 speed.. thought i was in 7th heaven... Real nice old truck... Rode like a lumber wagon and top speed maybe 70 ?...
Now i got a 1/2 ton truck, pulls a bigger load, 4 times the HP and double the gas mileage and could cruse down the road over 80 MPH for hours on end... and rides smoother than a Caddy....... but still remember that old LUMBER WAGON !!
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Posted: 15 Apr 2023 at 12:08pm |
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I had 2 IH pickups, 68 fwd half ton, 304 and 3 speed, then had a 74 half ton, 345 and auto trans, both very good but a little crude at times.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 15 Apr 2023 at 2:57pm |
Could fit 6 or seven high school kids easily across the huge bench seat. Second one in from the left drove. That blew people’s minds in oncoming traffic when the person on the left would wave with both hands out the window! 
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Posted: 15 Apr 2023 at 9:22pm |
steve(ill) wrote:
yep...im with Tbone.. I had a 1969 Chuby 20 .. 2 wheel drive with a straight 6 motor and wide ratio 4 speed.. thought i was in 7th heaven... Real nice old truck... Rode like a lumber wagon and top speed maybe 70 ?...
Now i got a 1/2 ton truck, pulls a bigger load, 4 times the HP and double the gas mileage and could cruse down the road over 80 MPH for hours on end... and rides smoother than a Caddy....... but still remember that old LUMBER WAGON !! |
That's comparing the past, to now. In 1969, someone would say exactly the same thing about my '24 TT or even my '29 Ford A pickup.
I wouldn't trade my '70 Kaiser-Jeep Jeepster Commando for ANYTHING new. It isn't going to be comfortable blasting down the interstate at 80mph, nor would I be comfortable in sub-zero or 100F temps, but I'm still not getting rid of it.
If I had a chance to add a 4wd TravelAll to my collection, I most certainly would... and all the old idiocyncracies would be welcomed with glee...  |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2023 at 1:46pm |
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One of my fuel customers had a 1955 4 door he bought it new along with a speed boat. The family would take it to Lake of the Ozarks in the summer. It was blue 1/2 ton.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2023 at 3:14am |
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went to an auction a few years ago, there were several IH pickups on the auction, 2-drs, 4-drs, long/short boxes, 6 & 8 cyl engines. not bad shaped ones too. a couple were rust buckets, they all brought big money on the auction. none of them ran at the time.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2023 at 9:25am |
I got the IH disease several years back. I like the 1974/75 d-200 models. 345 and 392 4 speeds and automatics... much prfer the 4 speed. I have completely restored 2 of them and sold them late last year on BAT. Had a reserve of 25,000.00 on both and they brought well past that. Still have 2 setting in the shop along with a 1975 Scout traveler. Current project is a 1946 KB. The cab is painted fenders are close to being ready to put on. Overhauled the Green Diamond 214 engine running into an issue finding the correct bottom radiator hose. Like I said i have IHC disease BAD. Nice looking one here.
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