I hated it when International stopped building trucks. They didn't help themselves at all when they tried to break into the auto truck crazyness in this country and thats what the bulk or most all veicles we build in this class but a heavy weight car. No american manufacturer today builds a decent small pickup or to be more specific work truck. I remember when I got out of the service and was sent on an errand to pick up 27 square of shingles and the stuff to install. Thinking that was 27 bundles I went after them with my favorite heavy 3/4 ton Internationa pick-up. While two pallets of shingles plus later, a couple of buckets of tar a bunch of rolls of felt paper was the load. Try and do that today with a 3/4 ton pick-up. Don't get me wrong, I would have had to think about it for a few seconds or so if a good looking girl would have been hitchhiking where other wise she would have been in the truck in a heart beat, but I drove away at 55 for my 17 mile journey home.

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