My dad and his truck, picture taken in 1974.

International pickups were tough. they used to say "they aren't much for pretty, but they're hell for stout!" The weakness with them seems to be rust.

1974 was just about the end of the line for those trucks. The 1974 models gained a new grille, hood, fenders & series identification (the old 1210 was redesignated 200).

Attached is a 1974 ad I scanned back in 2001 out of an old Mechanics Illustrated.

Love your truck! I've always had a thing for International trucks. There seems to be many available on PEI., especially the '50s & '60s models and bigger farm trucks.

I almost bought a baby blue Scout with fibreglass front fenders in the '80s ... love those utes! 

I went to the Truck & Tractor Pull at B.C. Place Stadium in 1983, The Blue Ox was there :)

1975 200 series 4x4 test vehicle (392 auto):

Another shot of the 1975 ½-ton with the Port-A-Cap that you pictured earlier:

I think the thing that intimidated buyers was the fact that they had to visit a truck-only dealership and deal with salespeople who were all about big rigs. Personally I think they made the toughest pickups at the time. I knew a few people that worked for International Harvester in Burlington, Ontario back in the day. Every year they would get a new company vehicle right at the very start of the new model year. That would pretty much mean a new Scout II. I remember riding with a best friend's brother in law in his new orange 1977 Scout II Ralley with a dual exhaust 345, Borg-Warner T-18 4-speed, traction lock 3.54 gears. As I recall it had balls.

Dad used to occasionally borrow a pickup from an associate, a '68 1010 series with a small V8 & 3-in-the-tree. It was the last of the previous styled generation that ran from 1957½ through 1968. That truck was then replaced with a 1974. Years ago I used to work at the movers for the summer. Usually I was in a 1974 International Fleetstar A 1910 series tractor with a torquey 450 c.i.d straight six gas engine with a 5-speed and a 2-speed rear axle. I even managed to drive the thing somehow despite no Class A license. Manual steering! The Fleetstar A used the same cab as your 1974 pickup together with a large tilting fiberglass hood. They were made mid-1969 through 1977 and were powered by the old 406, 450 & 501 cube straight sixes derived from Diamond-T, and were often used to power the old R-series trucks that were produced from 1950 through 1967. The Fleetstar A also was powered by a 549 gas V8 or various diesel engines. Imagine how much it would cost to run a gas-powered truck like that today!

At any rate, thanks for the neat pictures there, Big Banger!

Prior to the Scout II Ralley & even the Johnnie Reb 1010 pickups there was another limited edition, the 1970 Scout Commanche. I have not seen it mentioned anywhere, but decades ago I used to have an ad for one in an Outdoor Life magazine from 1970. The Scout Commanche was based on the last of the 1^st generation Scouts. They were painted solid white with stripes on the lower bodyside and top of hood & fenders in a sort of Adobe pattern, done like lace paint of the era. The stripes were ginger in colour. Wheels were chromed reverse and the tires were Goodyear Polyglas GT if I remember correctly. Geez, if I still had that magazine I could have scanned it and thus have the only reference to that model I have ever heard of. Too bad.