? about Joe Ruley from Iowa photo - 'Binder ' pickup

Info please as to year and model of the 'Binder' pickup in the beautiful 'winter scene'.

Joe, if you are catching this; or others...could this be a 345 and possibly floor shift w/granny gear or 'three-on-the-tree'?

Thanks in advance.

Judging by the grill, it is either a 1963 or 64 model. In 63 they came with a straight 6 OHV engine or most commonly the 304 V-8. The 345 might have been an option, but in that time period, it was considered overpowered. The model would be a C series, either an 1100 or 1200. The 1100 was a good sturdy 1/2 ton with 5 bolt wheels, and the 1200 was a stout 3/4 ton with a very large center hole 6 bolt wheel. From the picture, I suspect the wheels and hubs have been changed for today"s tire sizes. The tranny choices would have been a Borg Warner automatic (not common in the PU"s), a 3 speed column shift, a 4 speed floor shift with granny gear, and a 5 speed overdrive with a strange shift pattern. If it is 4WD, it will have a divorced transfer case (short driveshaft between tranny and transfer case), with the transfer case being a NP 205, gear on gear transfer case. Neither power steering or power brakes were common, and AC was unknown.

I had a few of these trucks, and found the weak spot was the Ross manual steering gear box. My 1963 1100 came with a factory 100 K mile engine warantee. They were a tough truck. The engines were incredible, industrial quality.

Paul in MN

They also had 266 V-8's as an option. We had a '65 C-1000 with a 266. It originally had a "3 on the tree", but we converted it to a 4 speed later in its life, after we knocked the reverse idler out the side of the case when we were trying to get it out of a snow drift. We had to get the stub drive shaft to make the conversion, but it ran great for a long time after that. Unfortunately, the drain for the vent in the cowl came down through the door posts (not one of I-H's better ideas). When the bottom drain hole became full of crap and plugged up, it left the hollow square door post full of water. Both sides finally rusted out & we had to get rid of it, because the doors wanted to come open and/or fall off from the hinge side. (That became a little anoying when you were going down the road about 60 MPH.) It had a posi-track rear end and torsion front suspension w/6'box. It was a real terror in snow, even if you lost one chain off of a rear wheel. Just make sure the front end was pointed in the direction you wanted to go when you poured the power to the rear end, because which ever way the front end was pointed, that's the way you went. Turning the front wheels made no difference as long as you were still putting the power to the rear end. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)

My nieghbor had one like that and vintage had the V8 and a three speed on the floor.