International Navistar

[chessie4905]

Looks like Volkswagen is buying it.
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0XKurMqX?s=i3&pd=03quVOhQ

[CrabbyMilton]

Could see that one coming for  a long time. So I guess new skoolies will have the VW logo at some point. VW and FORD are partnering on some vehicles so I could see a merger at some point too.

[luvrbus]

Navistar just sign a new 20 year pack with the City of Tulsa to remain there ,I did a lot of work at the plant when Navistar (Am Tran) moved to Tulsa in 1999

[buswarrior]

Nope, you don't see mercedes emblem on freightliner/western star, you don't see Man on kenworth/peterbilt, you won't see VW on International...

The colonists aren't smart enough to know that they are being oppressed all over again...

It has been allowed by successive governments...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[TomC]

My uncle had an International Scout-I think about a '67 year. It had the V-8 cut in half 4 cylinder. It was (and still is) the only 4x4 I have seen with 4 gear shifts. One was the normal 3spd stick, then there was the direct/overdrive splitter, then there was the high/low range shifter, then there was the 2wheel/4wheel in and out. Good Luck, TomC

[chessie4905]

My opinion on Scouts was that they were on the crude side rough riding truck like vehicles. Which is what they were designed for.They were pretty durable though. Some are real fanatics about them still.

[DoubleEagle]

My uncle had an International Scout-I think about a '67 year. It had the V-8 cut in half 4 cylinder. It was (and still is) the only 4x4 I have seen with 4 gear shifts. One was the normal 3spd stick, then there was the direct/overdrive splitter, then there was the high/low range shifter, then there was the 2wheel/4wheel in and out. Good Luck, TomC

There is at least one other with multiple sticks, the Land Rover Series vehicles with two ranges and overdrive. The overdrive could be used on every gear. I drove a Scout that the military had back in the sixties. My biggest complaint was that it had no interior finishing and it made a lot of noise that would have your ears ringing for many hours after getting out. Like driving in a metal barrel.

[Jim Blackwood]

I had the big scout, the International Travelall and that thing was a hoss. Unfortunately rust was a real issue and I went through 3 bodies over a 20 year period and eventually bailed. By that point I had the 8 lug axles, disc front brakes and open knuckles, a 700r4 automatic and ND208 (i think) t-case behind the 392 with port fuel injection, 35" tires with 4.11 gears and was getting a solid 15mpg. Posi front and rear. Same engine as was in my first one with shaved heads, and I had 1000lbs of steel around the thing in bumpers and running boards so that little import cars couldn't drive underneath. (because they did try) Lincoln Town Car seats. I do miss that truck. It was quick off the mark. But, the rust would get to the body seams and eventually it would collapse down around the frame. After the third body (from texas) I threw in the towel, parted it out, and bought a Lincoln Blackwood. Hey, what else was I to do when they put my name on it? Rust hasn't been a problem with it. But it ain't no Travelall.

Jim

[David Anderson]

Just saw on the local news that Navistar is building a big plant on the southside of San Antonio on U.S 281.  900,000 square feet.  It's not too far away from the Toyota truck mfg plant

https://news.navistar.com/2020-06-25-Navistar-Virtually-Breaks-Ground-On-San-Antonio-Manufacturing-Facility-Slated-To-Begin-Vehicle-Production-Early-2022

[CrabbyMilton]

I like to imagine and play the what if game. CHRYSLER should have bought NAVISTAR back about 30-35 years ago. For some reason IH built some of the best and durable trucks and bus chassis but the SCOUT, TRAVELALL, and. pickups rusted into nothing. such a mesh would have complemented each legacy companies. IH with the medium and heavy trucks and DODGE RAM and JEEP with lighter to medium trucks and iconic SUV's

[chessie4905]

Then they would now be owned by Fiat.

[Jim Blackwood]

I was pretty disappointed when they merged with Case and became Navistar, but the light line was gone by then anyway. Although heavy for anything smaller than a box van or school bus, the SV series engine was very good. I had the one built the year before they put humps in the exhaust ports for the air injection. Best heads they ever had. Came with sodium filled exhaust valves and valve rotators. May have been heavy but it made a lot of power with a hot cam and higher compression, and that high nickle block would last forever in a light line vehicle. One of the very few engines used in passenger cars with a gear driven cam.

Jim

[luvrbus]

I was pretty disappointed when they merged with Case and became Navistar, but the light line was gone by then anyway. Although heavy for anything smaller than a box van or school bus, the SV series engine was very good. I had the one built the year before they put humps in the exhaust ports for the air injection. Best heads they ever had. Came with sodium filled exhaust valves and valve rotators. May have been heavy but it made a lot of power with a hot cam and higher compression, and that high nickle block would last forever in a light line vehicle. One of the very few engines used in passenger cars with a gear driven cam.

Jim

[luvrbus]

Case never owned stock in Navistar they just merged the farming machinery ,Navistar was owned by several holding co's Case did own the IH name though,I was still working for Tenneco which owned Case when that deal went down 

[Jim Blackwood]

That was when the logo changed.

Jim