12.79@110 MPH is a decent quarter mile for anything that wears plates and sees decent use. Seeing that figure out of a sixty-something year old International flatbed truck is something else altogether. Australia got International pickups, in full RHD setup and all, so the shape of the rig should be familiar to old Binder fans, but from what we can find, the styling of this particular era of International wasn’t shared with the American truck, so feel free to help identify what year range this truck would fall into. Whatever the case, an old farm truck with clean flatbed/headache bar setup, on steel wheels, hanging with Falcon utes and R33 Skylines on the quarter makes us smile…and wonder just what lump is providing the forward motion. We need more trucks like this: all work and all play. One minute it’s parked at the entrance to the track, with the owner selling watermelons, the next it’s showing you taillights by the 330′ mark. What do you say?
this truck is bad for business, the track will just end up banning it because the cars that it takes out will be so embarrassed they won’t come back to the track again, hiding in shame… ha
IH power! too cool seeing an old truck like that run well… in great shape too
I’m pretty sure that is actually a Dodge, not an International. Down here the two manufacturers shared the truck cab in the 60’s and 70’s due to low market volume. There were some minor cosmetic differences in the body – lights, grille, badgeware etc. The Dodges came with a range of Chrysler 6 and 8 cylinder powerplants – 225 slants, 273, 318 and 360 V8’s – over the years. The Inters had a range of Inter engines including diesels.Obviously that thing is not exactly stock under the bonnet (hood to you).