If you are so inclined, you can go out right now and order up a Ford F-series truck that will easily come in close to $70,000 dollars, and you can easily get close to that figure with the GM twins, Ram, and Toyota isn’t far behind, either. Bear with me for saying it, but that is just stupid. It is one thing to have a truck, and I can understand having a comfortable truck. But when the pickup truck has expansive acres of leather, luxury trim packages, a sound system that would embarrass a parking lot full of kids, and enough electronic gizmos that you barely factor in the driving equation, then something is very, very wrong with the picture. Trucks used to be tools, work implements. If you had a truck, you used the damn thing, and for a sight more than towing the fifth wheel out to the coast to camp for a week.
That’s why seeing this 1973 International Harvester 1110 pickup is so refreshing. There was only one trim package: functional. Radio? It’s there, and that’s about it. Not only will you have to shift the four-speed manual for yourself, you will also have to adjust the seat for yourself, roll down the windows for yourself, and you should feel lucky that you don’t have to actuate the choke for yourself. There isn’t carpet, either…you are going to actually use this 13-letter shit spreader, so why would you want a dirt magnet? Only the finest rubber floor matting will do, because spraying out the mud and whatever else you drug into the cab is much easier than spending $20 at the car wash steam-cleaning the carpets.
Under the hood you have the venerable 258ci inline-six, sourced from American Motors. It’s a solid unit and will get the job done with little to no complaining. Besides, you aren’t going to try to set any speed records in a pickup truck that has the aerodynamic properties of a thrown brick, are you? No…even with the fresh outer paint job, the heart and soul of this International is to work, day in and day out. You keep the maintenance up, and it will start, run, drive, haul, and do what you ask of it. It will not pamper you like an overloaded King Ranch Ford, but it won’t let you down.
eBay Link: 1973 International Harvester 1110
WANT !
If I had the funds to buy that, it would be transplanted with a 401.
Why? Why not!
my service truck is a 72 1310 dually.
392 four speed.
it has 30,000 on the clock.
it is crude,loud,square and a blast to drive as long you dont mind going 54 mph because it has 4.88 gears.
i joke everytime i fire it up a prius owner cries…
these trucks could survive a nuclear assault. ..
They have everything you need and that’s it.
Beautiful.
I’d like to think a Toyota salesman bumps his head whenever something American fires up!
My daily got totaled the other night, and I’m in the market for a simple truck like this. If it were nearby, I’d own it in a heartbeat.
fantastic find! want want want!
A friend had a ’73 International duallie with a 345.
Functional.
In terms of “elimination of the unnecessary”,these trucks are works of art.
That truck ran NASCAR solid!
Damn nice old truck that won’t let you down.