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Actuall pictures of the old truck I am looking at.

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JD Seller

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Here are actual pictures of the old IH 190 cab over I am looking at. It was a fire truck for years then a local farmer bought it and installed a new Grain bed on it. It sold at auction and the buy has never came an got it.
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Cab looks exactly like the fire truck I mentioned in my comment to your previous post. I think you'd have fun with it. I know I did with mine as a fire truck. Nice, clean old trucks are hard to find. I have a '63 GMC 4000 fire truck now that I am trying to decide if I should sell or make it into something more usable for my farm. It has 8,000 original miles on it.
 
Should add that clean old truck are hard to find in MN, as most have rusted away by now. May be more plentiful in other areas.
 
I think you will like the truck I liked mine. They handle nice the only draw to mine was 55 to 60 MPH was tops but it held at that speed loaded or empty. But mine had the RD 450 inline 6 and an 8 speed Roadranger.
 
If there is anyone who can keep it going, it would be you. Indulge yourself some purchases don't always have to make good business cents!!!!! gobble
 
Well real interesting.. Hard to find a good on. IH did a number on the front springs to make it ride good the front springs are 5 ft long. Always had to rearch them ever now and than and actually added a few leafs now and then. Had one that had the v8 549 would pass anything but the filling station. Always had trouble keeping the old wheels lined up on the front. Hope you get it bought. The TRUE fire truck engine had dual ignition .
 
If it was a fire truck it may have two starters on it and two distributors. This was in case it wouldn't start they could switch over to the other starter or ignition systems. I'm not sure what fire trucks all had that but many of them did.
 
John B,
You're right.I worked at HOWE FIRE APPARATUS CO. in Anderson,In. They had dual systems on some of their trucks, the biggest ones they made were air port assigned.They had a cannon type sprayer on top for spraying foam,with remote operating from cab.HUGE TRUCK.
LOU
 
What is the temperature inside a cabover while sitting in a grain line waiting to dump about say.... mid July ?

I never had a cabover but always guessed they may be a little toasty in the summer .

That is a nice looking truck !
 
I drove a '38 Ford cabover picking up bales in a field one time when I was a kid- seemed strange at the time that the 70 year old owner was bucking bales and not driving the truck- I soon found out why. Hot day, you're sitting right next to the flathead Ford V8 with NO COVER, and to top it off, carb had a leak. Believe it or not, he had a little soup can with a wire bail on it, hung under the gas drip. He told me not to let it get too full, just take it off the hook and throw the gas out the window once in awhile.

The shift linkage was so loose you just kind of stirred around with the gearshift lever until you found a gear you liked. I actually got it up to 35 MPH on the way home, and he was thrilled. Called me several times after that to "come help in the hay", but I was always busy. . .
 
Nice lookin truck. Like I said before at big truck auctions (was a used truck dealer) the buyers sort of shyed away from those models and they didnt bring as much, but its your money and your choice so if you want it go for it..

John T
 
Dad tried to fry eggs on the storage area pan behind the set on our IHC cab over on the way to Missouri from ohio one summer..They would
turn white,but to much vibration to cook.
 
We had one just like that one. Before we bought it, it was a tanker truck, milk tank. Dad put a flat bed on it to haul hay a long distance in the winter when we ran out.

I'll never forget the brakes on it. Sometimes it would lock up all the wheels and sometimes you could stand on the peddle and nothing. With a load of hay, I would start grabbing gears, get on the horn and have nightmares.
George
George
 
JD,

that's a good looking truck. I know our grain truck driver would like it on account of the automatic and small size (wife is the grain truck driver).

-paul
 
you"re not driving it home yet? what keeping you,,lol.. cool, would love to have it in my collection of goodies,,, regardless of not have a/c, they did it without back then...courious, how much is it asking, if you want to state..bob
 
The IH 478/549 big gas engines could be set to run two distributors easily.Each end of the engine had a distributor hole,and if only one was used the other hole had a plug in it.The camshaft had the worm drive on each end.
 
The bed is a Omaha Standard bed with a good scissors hoist. The bed is like new.

I went over just a little while ago and flashed the guy a pile of Benjamins. He is having to "think" some. I told him to not "think" too long. The Bennies may not stay in the pile. LOL

I DO NOT NEED the truck. I really do not need any grain truck but it is different.

It is the "BIG" engine. 549 rated at 230 HP at 3200 and 256 HP at 3400 according to the door post.

Question IH truck guys. The serial number is on the left door panel. On the right door panel there is a brass tag that has IHC 30696 on it. The tag appears to be a factory tag. Any one got any ideas what the tag on the right would be?
 
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