Photos from the Cohort by Matt Wilda.
Related CC reading:
COAL: 1973 International 1110 – There’s A Rebel Under That Hood
Curbside Classic: 1971 International Travelall – Time Traveller
Curbside Classic: 1972 International Travelall 1210 4×4- Travel All Roads Or None At All
Nice find! I have never seen one of these as a stepside – I like it!
I don’t recall any either.
I have gone through the IH brochures for these vehicles and I cannot see where such a bed was offered. However, it seems that there are a couple that are showing up if I just do a search. This may not have been an IH option.
Here’s a snippet from the ’72 brochure showing a stepside bed:
thanks for finding that!
Wow that is an incredible find still wearing the proper hub caps and the fancy chrome rear bumper, which wasn’t very common on any of the pickups but really surprising on a step side.
Are those Travelall taillghts ? .
I’ve never seen one of these with a step side bed .
Looks pretty good shape to me .
-Nate
No they are the standard pickup and Scout II taillights, mounted in essentially an angle bracket which is how it was done from the factory on those step sides. Travelalls have two separate taillights per side and they are kind of triangular.
I was struck by just how crude that taillight setup looks. It essentially looks like they just took the standard pickup taillight from the regular bed and tacked them onto the sides of the step side bed, and then just ran some wires to the back.
Pretty much. Though I don’t think it looks that bad and in someways like it better than the common box taillight they other guys used on their step sides. There is also a tacked on bracket to use the same side marker lights as the rest of their vehicles.
Where do I place my order for one?
The only thing missing for me is the opening center section of the rear window. I don’t know if the IH ever came with it.
That’s a fine example of ‘The Other Pickup’. Seems International made fewer (proportionally) step-sides and short bed pickups than the others did, making for rare versions of trucks that were overall somewhat rare to begin with. International also offered the 3/4 ton 1210 series with the short bed, at least up until the chassis redesign in late 1974.
The Air Force bought tons of stepsides. Crew cab and singles.
I spotted this truck not too far from the former Mather and McClellan Air Force Bases, and Travis and Beale aren’t that much farther away either, so it is plausible this truck started its life at one of those bases. It looks like it got a respray at some point a long time ago; there’s some green paint on the taillight wiring, so it’s possible green isn’t this truck’s original color.
Edit: Actually, it looks like the paint on the bed looks nicer than the rest of the truck. Maybe someone replaced the bed and painted it to match the cab? Which would probably mean green actually is the original color, which I guess would disprove the theory of this originally being an Air Force truck. And that would explain the mismatched bumpers — painted in the front and chrome in the rear.
My uncle, who owned a road-construction firm in Israel, had a few of those as well as Scouts and Travelalls, all of them 4X4. He converted to “Internationalism” after a bad experience with an Israeli-assembled Jeep Wagoneer and stayed with the brand until he retired. He did a lot of defence contracts in the Sinai desert so a reliable work vehicle was a necessity. We used to borrow one of the pick-ups when my dad needed to clean the yard or transport plants and similar, and it was one of the first vehicles I drove as a teenager. It was primitive, used lots of expensive gasoline but I felt like I owned the road when I drove it. Great fun – believe it or not – driving through Tel Aviv as most car drivers kept their distance not wanting to have a contact with the oversized bumpers my uncle fitted… But when I had a date I borrowed dad’s Ford Cortina:)
The color reminds me of the old telephone company service trucks.
Did anyone notice the hole in the left front fender?
Maybe a mounting point for whip type antenna??
Filler for the auxiliary fuel tank, as discussed in the second Travelall CC. From what I can tell, Travelalls had them on the passenger side, while on the pickups they were on the driver side.
I’m not sure if the owner simply lost the cap, or if the aux tank has been removed. I didn’t look closely enough to see if there’s an actual filler neck behind the hole.