Get Autoblog in your Google feed 54 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 17 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 41 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 04 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 49 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 09 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 36 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 12 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 45 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 14 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 39 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 15 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 51 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 19 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 34 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 06 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 31 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 03 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 38 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 08 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 43 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 21 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 99 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 23 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 25 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 27 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 29 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 07 – 1962 IHC C-Series pickup truck in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin Chicago’s International Harvester Corporation began selling light trucks in 1907 , continuing until the last IHC Scout Terras were built as 1980 models . International pickup production ran through 1975, with postwar models including the K/KB-Series , L-Series , R-Series , S-Series , A/B-Series , C-Series and D-Series . Today’s Junkyard Gem is a C-Series half-ton, found in a northeastern Colorado self-service boneyard recently.
International Harvester was dismantled and reorganized during the 1980s, but you can still buy International trucks made by Navistar International (now owned by Volkswagen Group ) to this day.
The International C-Series truck (which included the Travelall proto-SUV and Travelette crew-cab pickup) was built for the 1961 through 1964 model years, and IHC was proud to advertise that it “hadn’t gone soft” like the competition.
Since it was “designed by truck men to do a truck job,” the C-Series could be purchased with “man-sized” V8 engines . This one has the base 240-cubic-inch pushrod straight-six, though, with its 141 horsepower and 224 pound feet.
The transmission is a three-on-the-floor manual . A three-speed automatic transmission was available , as was four-wheel-drive.
You couldn’t get air conditioning in the ’63 C-Series, but you did get enviably simple heater/vent/defroster controls.
You had to pay extra for the heater. It took until the early 1970s for heaters to be standard equipment in U.S.-market cars and light trucks (due to regulations requiring a windshield defroster that blew heated air).
I still find IHC pickups in Colorado car graveyards, plus many Scouts .
