The last time we saw an IHC vehicle in this series was all the way back in 2020, when we admired a 1959 Metro-Mite step van at the Denver U-Pull-&-Pay. Today, we’re returning to the very same boneyard and one of the very last full-size IHC pickups ever built.
The International Harvester Corp. began selling light trucks in 1907 and continued building them until the final 1980 Scouts rolled off the line.
IHC had a pickup version of the Scout known as the Terra, which stayed in production until the end. However, this small truck wasn’t a direct sales competitor against the full-size pickups from Chevrolet/GMC, Ford and Dodge.
IHC did offer sales rivals to those huge-selling Detroit pickups, which were the Ford F-Series, Dodge D-Series and Chevrolet/GMC C/K-series from the 1960s forward. These were the International C Series through 1968, and its D-Series successor for 1969 through 1975…