Hodgdon acquires Accurate and Ramshot

[Petrol & Powder]

I agree we will be fine. We've been down this path before.

The manufacturers will not spend millions of dollars to increase production capacity to meet a very short lived increase in demand. They would never recoup that outlay of cash for enormous capital projects (more buildings, land, equipment, etc.) The current shortages are due to the election cycle (we've been down this road before) and will subside after the election.

 

[CZ93X62]

Ah, Cornbinders. Nice in my part of the country, where nothing rusts unless you live near the ocean. The most interesting part of IH vehicles to me growing up was the daughter of the local IH dealer that I went to school with, a couple years behind me and a friend of my middle sister. Beyond cute, and she knew it unfortunately. She wasn't about to be caught dating an Orange Grove Kid like me, so zero traction whatsoever--like wet ice on Teflon.

There were quite a few IH pickups and wagons in use locally by the citrus growers, and the first shop I worked in did the service on them. They didn't ever "break", and were at least as reliable as all of the Ford/GM/Dodge trucks that I worked on for the 10 years or so that I turned wrenches.

I am a Truck Person. Cars are nice in their own way, but are largely useless to me. Since I started driving in 1971, there has only been about 16-18 months of that time when a car was my principal vehicle--otherwise, it has been a pickup or an SUV. The fun doesn't start until the pavement ends.

 

[RicinYakima]

Last new truck my father bought was a 1957 IH 3/4 ton. Bed height was 32 inches. Easy loader. Bed rusted off in about five year and was sold to neighbor who put wood flat bed on it.

 

[Edward R Southgate]

Buddy of mine owned over a dozen Scouts in the late 80's , said it took all of them to keep running the one that he actually drove .

 

[RicinYakima]

International built engine blocks and frames, everything else was sub-contracted out. It is like when I was playing with Hudson cars, if you knew who made the parts, it was easy.

 

[L Ross]

When we got married our car was a 65 Olds F-85 with passenger side damage we bought for 150 bucks. We took that car camping on our honeymoon.

For our first anniversary, my father-in-law told us to take his IH Travel-all on our trip to Michigan's U.P.. He was an IH dealer and ran their service dept. while his jocular partner was the sales end of the business. That Travel-all was powered by a 392 V-8 that was bigger than the engine in the IH straight truck I drove for the sod farm I had worked at. The Travel-all was certainly roomy, I think bigger than a Suburban, but it was the biggest gas hog I have ever had to buy fuel for. I think it got 8 mpg.

 

[fiver]

I had a 68 that was kind of a darker purple color, the kid's called it Petunia because it looked like a Pig.
we used to run it around the back roads here all the time and is was about the easiest thing to drive around the dirt mountains ever.
just stick it in 3rd. gear and sit there letting the engine do the work.
I remember one time trying to figure out why it was struggling a bit going up one 30 degree 2 track road with about 8 of us in it, I finally figured out I was in 4th. and not second gear.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

My family had a 2WD 66 IH pickup that I "got" to drive. Straight-six, 1 barrel carb, 3 on the three, 10 ply tires (I think they were 16.5" wheels?) and a Rockwell 4.10 rear. The drive train was bulletproof but the body was an absolute disaster. It had about 300K on it and would start and run in any weather.
Internationals were simple machines.

 

[fiver]

if it was 3/4 ton 16.5 was a possibility.

the 1-ton pickup trucks still had split rims up to around 68-69.
the 64 1 ton I had was quite the rattle trap, I even put little flip latches on the doors to keep them from rattling open.
it had a 392 someone dropped in it just before they promptly broke the rear end gears [and sold it to me super cheap] not to fear the rear end out of the 3/4 ton 73 pickup went right in it's place, and the straight axle out of the 71 1/2 ton went right under the front.

shoulda welded the doors shut and just cut the roof off that one.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

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shoulda welded the doors shut and just cut the roof off that one.

Based on my personal experience, the doors would likely rattle open even if you had welded them shut.

 

[Edward R Southgate]

International built engine blocks and frames, everything else was sub-contracted out. It is like when I was playing with Hudson cars, if you knew who made the parts, it was easy.

Like Mail Jeeps . No two alike . Have to visually match the part you take off to the picture reference in a book . Too complicated and way too much variation in parts to put on a computer .

 

[Petrol & Powder]

There was at least one year in the 1970's when AMC used 3 different suppliers for some Jeep parts during one model year. You had to know the year and the MONTH the vehicle was made in order to get to correct part.