This cheerful Super Beetle is sporting a very vintage racing stripe, the likes I haven’t seen in a very long time. Remember Baja Beetles? It was an option package for ’72 Super Beetles; silver paint, nice alloys, and a similar stripe along its flanks. They used to be common in CA, but haven’t seen one in ages.
There’s more than a VW and a pink flamingo here. An old International pickup without a bed; Eric or someone will peg its vintage.
A Mustang GT is hiding behind it and that S10.
And out front is an eclectic pair. The tasty Accord coupe is of a desirable vintage; these are some of the best of that long line of Accords. A true CC-worthy mailbox post too.
And here’s perhaps the cream of the crop, a very cheerfully painted Cornbinder 1310 double cab truck. I’ve seen this around town for many years; I suspect it will outlive me. You just don’t let one of these fall apart.
Not surprisingly, the owner(s) of this collection prefers stick shifts. It looks like the truck got converted to one, as it still has the automatic shifter quadrant on the column.
This is a hard-working no-nonsense truck. And across the street is the home of the Bacon Nation food cart, which has set up shop just a few blocks down the street from our house. Haven’t tried it yet, but I hear it’s good.
L or R series Inter it has the same rear profile as my AL110 flat deck, the Dak Dak still wears a Super Beetle tag on the side, quite an interesting pile of CCs I bet the Honda is the daily beater.
Agree. It’s a ’51 or later Binder… the ’50 (first year for the Comfo-vision cab) had internal door hinges, a one-year-only feature. Without seeing the grill, I don’t know of a way to tell if it’s an L (’50-’52) or R Series.
Comfo-vision? Such fifties marketing for mundane, solid Binders? Comfo-vision includes the Sweepsight windshield! (link here) Worthy of Bruce McCall.
The glass is over 34% more transparent than last year’s!
And since you can interchange the front end sheet metal even seeing the grille doesn’t guarantee the year the rest of the truck was made. With IH’s not being as common you do see them from time to time with front end sheet metal that does not jive with the data plate and Line Set Ticket tied to the cab/frame serial number.
The super beetle brings back memories. I could get nostalgic for one until I remember how bad they really were. Fun times though. Good car for when you’re young.
Tell us more about this Bacon Nation. I’d be a vegetarian if it weren’t for bacon.
Try veggie bacon it’s pretty good
Pretty good don’t cut it when referring to bacon…
Where “pretty good” means “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike bacon.”
That double cab Cornbinder is sure a thing of beauty, and the interior is MINT.
Is that a straight 8 crank used as a mailbox post or just a 6? Can’t quite make it out from the picture.
I think I counted 8. Looks too long to be a sixer anyway.
I have not seen a crankshaft mailbox post in a long time. I always wanted one.
I remember some of the Cornbinders having a saddle tank in the front wheelwell. Is my memory shot, or does anyone else recall seeing this? And while I’m rattling, why didn’t these or the Dodge plus space cabs sell when they were introduced? Some approached birthday status on flooring when new in the late 70’s.
My AL110 had the fuel tank up under the side of the cab but that was Aussie built it also had a 2 piece windscreen instead of the single piece like US models
Your memory’s just fine. Look at any IH pickup made from 1961-68, and you’ll see the filler cap right behind the front fender. Optional dual tank had the filler on the passenger side. Plenty of them have the telltale streak of rust coming down; makes ’em easy to spot.
I’d say the reason most extended cab full-size trucks (and crew cabs, while we’re at it) didn’t become popular until the late 80’s/early 90’s was that most were still used for work, or at least perceived as being work vehicles, which meant a full 8′ bed. An extended cab meant one of two equally undesirable outcomes (for most people): either give up on bed length or add to the already semi-like driving characteristics by adding another 18″ of length and WB. Remember, full-sized BOF V8-powered full-size cars were still readily available from the Big Three, so there was no reason to buy a pickup as a family AND trailer hauler. The discontinuation of the Caprice and Crown Vic is almost simultaneous with the introduction of the F-150 SuperCrew and Avalanche.
Compact pickup trucks, OTOH, were always in demand as extended cabs since even the longer bed (somewhere around 7′) was too small to do “real work” anyway. The Jeep Comanche could have been kept alive for at least another 5 years if it had an extended cab, even with the introduction of the Club Cab Dakota. Why compacts didn’t have full crew cabs until the 2000 Nissan Frontier is anyone’s guess–especially since Toyota, Nissan et al. had been offering them in the rest of the world since, what, the mid-70’s?
The MJ Comanche was still doomed.
Between duplicating the Dakota post Chrysler buyout and sharing a platform with the XJ Cherokee and a somewhat shared parts bin/supply chain with the YJ Wrangler as well as competing for line slots at Toledo it was DOA. IIRC a well optioned XJ Cherokee went for $26-30k in current dollars.
It really isn’t in the front wheel well that is just where the filler is. This one has fillers in both front fenders since it is a Travelette, IH’s name for the crew cab body style. The regular pickup with this body style had it’s fuel tank filler in the cab corner but the tank is in the same under cab position on this, but the extra door meant they used the Travelall aux tank filler location for the main tank filler. On regular cab pickups and this Travelette the aux tank filler is in the driver’s side fender but again the tank itself is under the cab.
It’s always nice to see an open-minded car enthusiast — these guys obviously are not biased in their vehicular selection.
I had a 90 Accord LX Coupe – white, 5-Speed – lasted a long time. I’m not sure the one pictured is an EX though – an EX would have body colored bumpers. Maybe an EX with DX bumpers?
I really like that International. The inside view reminds me of many hours inside of a Travelall owned by my best friend’s family. Surely those triple buckets are not original issue?
Internationals and Dodges were the only crew cabs I can remember from the 60s-early 70s. They were always full of work crews for utility and pipeline companies and such. Never in anyone’s driveway.
Considering Chevy didn’t make them until 1973 and Ford didn’t make them at their own factories ’til 1980, plus their availability as only standard/”Custom” trim levels on 3/4 and one-ton models, that’s hardly surprising.
That bucket seat and console is a factory IH set up, though the fact that it is red and the dash and steering column aren’t means that it was swapped in there. See my comment below on the center console.
Wow, really? I always thought that pseudo-bench seats were more of a late 80’s/early 90’s thing. If you had told me that IH never made a three-piece “bench” seat, two buckets and a flip-down console, I would have believed you.
Two- or three-piece benches with a console seat are always best, IMO. A good place to put an elbow, or the assorted junk that accumulates in a DD, or a water bottle, while making a reasonably comfortable place to seat three/six in a pinch. Even old buckets-with-a-small-fixed-console (like the one in the bottom right corner here: http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/ford/81fp/bilder/6.jpg) , despite looking pretty comfy, always seemed a little wasteful to me. And don’t even get me started on modern flow-through consoles on current full-size pickups and SUVS…
As I noted below the center part is specifically not for seating. There is no seat belt in that position and the 1973 and later versions specifically note that it is not a seat by embossing it into the console lid. I have now idea why IH decided to not consider it a seat, other than the fact that the area you would put your bottom is only very thinly padded plywood. I know my daughter wanted to sit there in my Travelall when she was younger. It is a quite large storage area with a latch and it a lock was even available. It does install as an assembly that bolts in using the same 4 bolt holes as the standard bench.
When some neighbors in Iowa City bought a crew-cab Dodge with a giant camper on the back in around 1963 or 1964, I was very impressed. What a rig; it just seemed so enormous at the time. Of course I was jealous too, when they headed off for the whole summer across the West.
I remember when a crew-cab truck was such a rare thing to see, and today, almost every truck has 4 doors. It used to only be reserved to the most serious of trucks before, seldom seen for personal use, outside of hauling a huge camper or boat. Duallys used to be rare to, today there are a bunch of them out there.
So what do you guys think his marital status is?
It takes a really special woman to put up with guys like us 🙂 .
The grille makes that Travelette a 72 or 73 and since it doesn’t have the custom exterior trim and that seat is obviously swapped in I’d need to see the serial number or data plate to pin it down to one year or another. If that seat was factory the fact that it doesn’t have “this is not a seat” embossed into the console lid would mean that it was a 72. I can see how people would think that it was intended to be a seat since the arm rest is as padded and almost as big as the actual seat backs. However the lid to that console is plywood with a very minimal amount of padding.
Looks like the IH is painted in Forest Service light green.
The Super Beetle is a ’73-’75 based on the windshield (curved instead of flat) and “elephant foot” taillights. I don’t know how to tell those three years apart from each other, though.
The Accord is a ’92-’93. Sadly, the ’90-’93 Accord has become quite rare in my area (New England) due to rust. I don’t remember the EX coming with black bumpers or door handles, though – are you sure that isn’t an LX or DX?
Oops, a zoom in shows that it is a DX.
CC effect! Granted I live in Eugene but still I saw that International loping through the Whit a few days ago and wished I had my good camera on me. No matter; Paul got it first. Sounded as good as it looked, old farmer-looking man driving it.
I’ve yet to see the Bacon Nation cart anywhere but I’ll keep an eye and nose out for it. mmmm Bacon!
I’ve seen this truck around for years, and have actually shot it before.
The Bacon Nation truck sets up on the corner of 28th and Friendly; my neck of the woods.
I want to know what’s undercover in the garages.
I though Baja Beetles were the versions with the underside of the front and rear overhand cut out.
Usually yes. But this was an option package for new VWs.
The fog lights I could do without, but those factory styled wheels look pretty sharp!
That’s the Baja Champion SE, the first of VW’s cheesy 1970’s special editions.
It was supposed to commemorate the success of VWs in the Baja races. Only 1,000 of those were made.
A lot of them were cheesy (was it the “Big Beetle” that was yellow with the black trunk lid) but this Baja looks pretty good to me, especially the wheels and silver-blue paint.
Check out that Astro! If the Astro was not such a death trap I would consider picking one up at some point. So, that leaves the Aerostar which I think is safer despite that fluke IIHS discovered.
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/vehicle/v/ford/aerostar
Weird how it is a two door garage, but the curb cut exists for only one. I like how there is a copious amount of laissez faire in these photos between parking on the sidewalk too close to an intersection, and a number of vehicles at one house.
A great assortment, but that Cornbinder is the best of the bunch. I love the red seats!