The Best Diesel Engines: Top 10 Of All-Time

From the farm to the highway, construction equipment to gen-sets, and emergency vehicles to the trucks we drive every day, diesels have built—and continue to build—America. Even beyond our…

Tractor Talk

In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit…

The 60 Year Demonstration

International was one of the first truck manufacturers to start pushing diesel engines in light and medium duty trucks. Back in the March 2018 issue, we told you about the 1963-68…

1949 Sheppard SD-2

With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in the March 2016 issue. The super low production SD-1 was presented in…

1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland

Even if we don’t know the term, we’ve all seen badge engineering at work. Take a vehicle platform of one brand name, change it up a little, add new paint and a different badge and call it…

Sheppard Tractors: One of Three

Sheppard Tractors are among the rarest of the orphan tractors. We covered a ‘51 Sheppard SD-3 for you back in 2015 and you can see the story online at…

The Third Kind of Binder

here are a lot of rough and rusty old trucks dying in the weeds. They come in three kinds. The first kind are beyond reasonable help and will eventually return to the earth. The second kind…

AMERICA’S FIRST LIGHT TRUCK DIESEL

Scattered around the country are a small number of ’63-68 model year IH light trucks with factoryinstalled IH D301 diesels. Collectors of these rare trucks would be rich if they had a dollar…

DT466 Diesel Engine: The Navistar International Legend

Legend! That’s a powerful word that might be used a little too often these days. When it comes to the DT466 diesel, though, it fits. Especially, when you consider it came from users in the…

Tractor Talk: Gold Standard

Upgrade or die was the watchphrase of tractor manufacturing in the 1960s. Farming was evolving rapidly and tractors were coming along for the ride. The International Harvester 06…

First of the Breed: 941 Farmall MD Diesel

When International Harvester debuted its new Raymond Loewy-designed Letter Series tractors in 1939, it was one of their bigger advancements. The improvements came on just about every…

1978 IH 584 Utility

No matter how hot the horsepower race got with the big tractors, a good deal of any tractor company’s business were the smaller utility tractors. Good products in this category always…

Ford’s First Diesel Pickup Engine

It was the 1970s and people were reeling from the shock of gas prices that had tripled in just a few short years. The effect was profound: a national 55 mph speed limit,…