Tag: international harvester

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 diesel options. The first was a gas-start diesel developed for tractors […]

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 […]

Last Scream of the Jimmy In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit Diesel […]

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 […]

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 […]

A 1955 International Harvester That Scoots here are a lot of rough and rusty old trucks dying in the weeds. They come in three kinds. […]

1963-68 IH C1100-1300 Diesels Scattered around the country are a small number of ’63-68 model year IH light trucks with factoryinstalled IH D301 diesels. Collectors […]

THE INTERNATIONAL/NAVISTAR DT466 Legend! That’s a powerful word that might be used a little too often these days. When it comes to the DT466 diesel, […]

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 […]

You Get More in a New 84 No matter how hot the horsepower race got with the big tractors, a good deal of any tractor […]

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 […]

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 […]

David Brown is not a well known name in the United States tractor scene, but our neighbors north of the border are very familiar with […]

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 […]