dont know much about it. I was on a motorcycle ride today and seen it in a oilfield next to other old beat down equipment. Its a international one ton? can any body identify year for me, do you guys think its worth saving i can probobly get it for the price of scrap. I was thinking about making a decent flat bed parts getter.
Look at that long hood..and that grill wow....the top already looks chopped. Put it on a pickup truck chassis... One thing I really like is how low it looks for a big truck.
Put a tilt bed on it and make a car hauler. My wife wont even let me look at big trucks, cause if I got one of those no tellin what I would haul home.
ive been looking for a long time to find something good to make a car hauler out of...needless to say im jealous
yeah i havent told my wife my plan of getting it yet. i think i will go talk to the drilling company out their monday, they usualy just scrap them when they need room.
i am excited about it now. I know a guy with strait rust free 1937 ford front fenders i think it would look good with them grafted on so i can run smaller tires and not messing up the porportions of it. the thing with that is that i would almost feel bad cutting and welding on those fenders because their so nice. Any thoughts, stupid ideal??
If you need a hauler ya might as well have a cool one and that one would fit the bill. I helped my cousin do a late thirties International as a hauler. We still used a heavy chassis(early 80's Chevy box truck) that was cheap ($75)from an impound auction and found a Jerr-Dann bed for cheap from a fire damaged rollback. His latemodel hauler has sat for the last 3 years since this one gets all the attention.
Looks like it was inspired by the nose of a '38 Buick or Olds - I had a chance to pick up one of those years ago, I should have.
I chased after a pretty nice one with a flatbed of about the same model about 15 years ago and couldn't get ahold of it. I've always felt that was one of the best looking big trucks made back then. They make a pickup with slightly smaller wheel wells but I wouldn't go mickey mousing different fenders on it. Maybe 1 or 1-1/2 ton running gear under the original frame would work and it shure would be a nice home for a Cummins out of a Dodge pickup. A couple of photos of similar trucks
Yea diamond t with that already slightly chopped look. Not to hard to graff whell well openings to make them smaller. diamond t made some good looking pickups.
Find ya a used motorhome with a 440 and 727 trans and use the whole chassis...scrap out the aluminum from the motorhome and buy beer with the coin!
Post war Diamond T 400-600 series. Long nose, same cab as the pickup and smaller trucks. Really heavy but beautiful lines. I sold one to a guy that used it to make a really nice woody a few years ago. They used armor steel in the roof panels, but watch the door posts-they rust at the seams. Get it if you can, but bring a big trailer. There is some aftermarket for parts (rubber and such) and a pretty big following in the antique truck world.
If you want to part with those front fenders give me a call. I have a 306H with the short fenders ,same as the 201 pickup. I need long fenders to fit my 12 valve Cummins
Perhaps since the original thread was posted in June, a private message would have been in order instead of bumping this back from the dead, missing photos and all.
Diamond T for sure. Hope it comes with a title. I just remembered I have a box of Diamond T gauges and speedometer in the rafters of my shop.
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