Junkyard Find: 1967 International Harvester 1100B Pickup
Living in Denver, I see plenty of International Harvester Scouts in local wrecking yards. IHC pickups and SUVs show up as well, including this ’72 pickup, this ’71 Travelall, this ’71 pickup, and now today’s non-rusty ’67 pickup.
As long as a pickup can still haul stuff, it pays its keep… but newer, more fuel-efficient trucks keep entering the Cheap Work Truck Food Chain, pushing trucks like this clattery, fuel-swilling, not-so-collectible old pickup off to the junkyard as soon as it breaks something expensive.
The half-ton 1100B came standard with a 241-cubic-inch pushrod straight-six, but this one has an optional V-8 (or a later V-8 upgrade). If it’s a factory-installed engine, it’s a 266-cubic-inch model making 155 Illinois horses.
Just the thing for listening to Loretta Lynn’s biggest hit of ’67.
Great for commuting!
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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Where would you buy something like this brand new back in the day? Would you go to the farm implement dealer? Large truck dealer? Did IH have a little lot full of trucks tucked in among big dealers on the Automile?
Someone should snatch those T3 headlights before this hits the crusher...