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When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of their bigger advancements. The improvements came on just […]

For much of its history in agriculture and commercial truck manufacturing, International Harvester had scout diesel options. The first was a gas-start diesel developed for […]

The Most Revered Oil-Burners Ever Assembled From the farm to the highway, construction equipment to gen-sets, and emergency vehicles to the trucks we drive every […]

1961 International B-160 Diesel Demonstrator International was one of the first truck manufacturers to start pushing diesel engines in light and medium duty trucks. Back […]

Classy Tractors With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in […]

A 14-Class Truck and Tractor Pull in the Land of Lincoln Perhaps no other form of motorsport events had been hit as hard as truck […]

1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland Even if we don’t know the term, we’ve all seen badge engineering at work. Take a vehicle platform of one brand […]

The Late-August Classic is Relocated And Rejuvenated At Wagler Motorsports Park When industry giants like Dan Scheid and Jeremy Wagler team up on something, you’re […]

1949 Sheppard SD-1 Sheppard Tractors are among the rarest of the orphan tractors. We covered a ‘51 Sheppard SD-3 for you back in 2015 and […]

1965 Farmall 504 What International Harvester called the “New World of Power” launched them into their first line of six-cylinder tractors in 1958. These were […]

The 1970 Farmall 826 Gold Demonstrator Upgrade or die was the watchphrase of tractor manufacturing in the 1960s. Farming was evolving rapidly and tractors were […]

It was the 1970s and people were reeling from the shock of gas prices that had tripled in just a few short years. The effect […]

The Cub Cadet line of garden tractors debuted in 1960 as “little brothers” to International Harvester’s compact Farmall Cub series. Originally to be called Cubette—a […]

Hi-Crop, High Clearance, High-Clear, HC… whatever name the manufacturer chose for them, tractors with extra clearance for taller crops have been part of the farming […]

In the late ’40s and early ’50s, diesel-powered tractors were just starting to increase their market share against gasoline and distillate (kerosene) power tractors. It […]

Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) had his hands into just about everything with an engine. By the time he started his own engineering firm in 1931, Dr. […]

You’re forgiven if “WD-40” brought something else to mind. Before that incredibly useful product was invented, there was an equally useful product with the same […]

When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of their bigger advancements. The improvements came on just […]