NICE ‘73 International

[BigPapa]

I was at a friends shop last night changing oil and rotating tire on my truck, son’s Mustang, and my brother’s Accord. My friend texted me to go look in his tractor barn, just don’t drool on his new “toy”....

 

[mwilson]

That’s frigin nice!! We used to be a dealer for IH and I remember the smell of the new Pick-Ups and Scouts when they arrived..

Should be a 392 in it...pretty loaded model with the clock in the dash, cruise and factory A/C..also looks like it has the factory console..

Double fuel tanks with the pull and turn selector valve..

I’m gonna say 145,000 miles where the pattern is worn off of the shifter knob...
4 speed or 5 speed???

 

[mwilson]

BTW, I wouldn’t have drooled on it but there would have been a clear danger of me driving off with it..

 

[NIsaacs]

Nice! Note the Kelsey Hayes brake controller

 

[mwilson]

A “Real” brake control!!

 

[SnoKing]

Hook a chain to the pole building and that thing would pull it over.

 

[GCroyle]

That’s sharp.

 

[JR]

Would love to hear the back story on that rig!
At a former job we had a weld truck of that vintage. In the late 90s the engine gave up the ghost and got replaced with a new 97 Chevy 3500 C&C. We took the steel flat bed off the International and put it on the Chevy. I still see that (now) old Chevy putting around from time to time. As far as I know that International is still sitting in a storage building owned by Ron. At least it was 3-4 years ago.

 

[Wayne M.]

Exquisite!!
I have a Instagram page- Binder boneyard, guy is trying to corner the market on these. This is by far the cleanest one I’ve ever seen.

 

[MartyK]

Boy, that sure is super nice.

 

[Wiredawg]

I love International trucks. In the Air Force at Keesler AFB, MS, we had 1 tons for telephone line trucks with 4spds. They were monsters and the motors had a deep throaty note.

EDIT: think I found it. https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0520-414736/1973-international-1210-travelette-crew-cab/

Super nice! Haven't seen one in ages.

Thanks for posting.

Cheers, Ron

 

[BigPapa]

Yep, I’d say that’s it. He buys and sells at the Meacum auctions all the time.

 

[GCroyle]

OK it just lost a few points with those alloy wheels and RWL tires. Wouldn't it have had steel wheels and noisy belted tires when new?

But that manly handshaker has earned extra points. I sold a Dodge M880 that I posted here years ago and collected all the parts to convert it to NP435 4 spd but work schedule changed bigtime and I sold it.

Still have all the MT conversion parts if anybody wants a sweet deal on them. The stick looks like a war club.

 

[Christopherwin]

OK it just lost a few points with those alloy wheels and RWL tires. Wouldn't it have had steel wheels and noisy belted tires when new?

But that manly handshaker has earned extra points. I sold a Dodge M880 that I posted here years ago and collected all the parts to convert it to NP435 4 spd but work schedule changed bigtime and I sold it.

Still have all the MT conversion parts if anybody wants a sweet deal on them. The stick looks like a war club.

Brings back memories, bet the original rims were 16.5 split rims. Sure most can remember these coming apart with violent force. Was out in hills one night, jammed front tire into some dirt, got stuck, road home with friends. Came back next day, pulled it out, driving home, split rim shot off like a cannonball, glad no one was in its path. Tire shops around here say, no way Jose. That 392 in that ole Binder was sure a torque machine.

 

[NIsaacs]

Brings back memories, bet the original rims were 16.5 split rims.

I think you mean 16" split rims/tube type. 16.5 is/was always a tubeless tire/wheel. .5 denotes a tubeless tapered wheel/tire bead, no bead lock on the wheel.

 

[Dl5treez]

Wow. Nice nice. My dad had one when I was a little kid, old Weyerhaeuser crummy. Never was that nice. Great trucks, too bad they rust away