quasi Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2024 12:02PM
That truck on the right is killing me. It's a 1970's International Harvester
and my parents bought one the same color new in 1970. When trucks were trucks
and not giant, fancy cars with tiny cargo boxes in back. My folks were way ahead
of the curve, though; in a time when they were rare, our truck was a four door
"crew cab" though otherwise it was pretty bare bones by the rest of
today's standards. They put a camper in the bed and it was a great vacation
mobile.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 09, 2024 09:33AM
All we got in Australia, from my memory, were Bedford trucks. Common on farms
or for serious delivery guys. Army trucks got left in Europe and Africa after
WWII so very few of those made it back. Imports came from the UK like Leyland
buses were here but Fords and Binders were rare until the 70's when imports were
cheaper
quasi Report This Comment Date: May 09, 2024 10:10AM
I don't know when they stopped but I know there was a manufacturing operation
for International Harvester light trucks in Australia postwar and through the
50's into the 60's. Crocodile Dundee's bush truck is a 60's era Australian
International. By the 60's, Aussie Internationals had their own design that was
very different than their American cousins, at least as far as the body work, I
think the mechanicals were mostly the same and, at least in the earlier years,
the engines were a corporate design that was manufactured in Australia.
International stopped building light trucks everywhere in 1975 and the Scout,
their Jeep competitor, ended production in 1980; since then they've only built
medium and heavy duty trucks and I know those were available in Oz for some time
and might still be. My dad worked for IH from 1956 to 1970, hence my interest in
them.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 09, 2024 10:45AM
Q~Man, I remember the IH grill on TV and such but never saw them in real life
(on the road). Maybe it was a Victorian thing (pulse) or possibly the banana
benders had them, as a proud New South Welshman (that's the only State in
Australia that matters) I can't recall them. I took this rare OC in the State of
South Australia...
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 09, 2024 10:49AM
