I promise you that I did not get my hopes up too high when I found this truck the other day. I was convinced that I would open the eBay listing only to find someone had swapped the chassis from a 1973-87 Chevy truck under this classic 1957 International-Harvester A120. It was sure it would be OK to look at but completely soulless under the surface. BOY WAS I WRONG!
This thing is amazing and we have never seen another one. You are looking at a legit 1957 factory four wheel drive truck. Not only that one that still has the correct factory inline six engine, four sticks coming through the floor, and an eight foot step side bed. The last element to add is the fact that this is a three quarter ton truck. Not a half ton or a one-ton, someone bought this one with specific needs in mind and they got one dandy of a truck in 1957. Thankfully someone had the whole thing concours level restored in the not too distant past and it still has the appearance of a rig that was but at the International-Harvester factory last week.
I’m not going to lie, the fact that there is a shifter, a hand brake, and then two sticks for the transfer case coming up through the center of the cab is one of my favorite elements of the truck. We believe that the sticks are used to engage low range in the transfer case. The other option would be the ability to de-couple one of the axles but we’re thinking it is about the gear range. Maybe one of you out there knows.
The truck comes with the proper small tires and hubcaps and it also comes with a set of 33-inch off-road style tires that look totally bad ass on the correctly painted factory wheels. We like the truck both ways but the taller and more modern tires do have a tough look to them. Don’t you think so?
Yes, the nose of the truck is a little awkward. The marker lights being mounted above the headlights give the nose a surprised or at least an eyebrow-raising appearance. It is still cool but the later designs of this body style were a little clearer in that respect.
We’re in love. Oh, and we need about $50,000.
eBay Link: 1957 International-Harvester A120 factory 4×4
Listing is incorrect, not an 8′ bed. Rims are 16″ which is verified by seeing close up of tire showing the size. Now look at “bait” pic showing in the embedded Youtube video within ebay listing. So by scale, 6 rim widths would need to fit on top of bed for it to be 8′. Approx 4.5 rim widths will fit on top of bed so has to be closer to 6′.
Regardless, very cool unicorn of a truck. Would own!!
Besides the obvious transmission shift lever and hand brake the other two sticks are for two/four wheel drive and Hi/Low range. Jeeps were also done this way at that time.