Well now, it’s not everyday I see an old International COE sittin’ around, but I did today!
I didn’t have time to talk to the owners, I used up all my time taking to a man about his Range Rover. But it obviously has a homemade bed and some sort of stacks.
Not sure if those smoke stacks actually connect to the muffler/s.
And I don’t think suspension travel was on their mind when they made that little flatbed.
It’s funny to see the R series cab like this. IHC simply mounted it on a new step-up base and made the short high hood to fit. The R cab was used for quite some time in medium duty IHC trucks, long after it had been fazed out in the light line.
Well, I can only hope to see her on the road instead of just sitting in a corner one of these days. So long COE.
Neat find. I think the copper, cream and green paint job works.
I don’t think it’s driven much. Probably a show piece, or advertising…maybe a sign on the back at some point?
There’s no wipers, either; and in the Pacific Northwest, that would be a problem.
Nice. Love an old flatbed.
Bring it to my house and I promise to get rid of my Saturn collection.
Aint seen a cabover Inter this old in a long long time The was a 5-6 ton version like this on the road carting pears to the cannery in Shepparton Victoria when I picked down there just one of the old trucks numerous growers keep alive for such tasks.
The face on this truck keeps reminding me of someone; I just can’t quite bring it up though. Love these tall-boys!
I like the round-cornered but rather angular styling of this cabover; it has lots of commonality with the standard trucks. The curved windshield that was well ahead of its time in 1950 when this cab was introduced does a lot to soften the angularity too.
Perhaps JustPassinThru is right, and this will be a static display at a fruit stand or similar business.
That’s a lot of truck to have only single rear wheels. It looks like it may actually be a duallie, but with no tires mounted on the inner wheels.
I, of course, want it. As long as someone else is doing the repairs and maintenance. It would be a shame to see it reduced to static billboard status.