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Endurance

1977 EMD 16-645E6 Anybody here think their truck will still be in service 111 years from now? Here’s a 118 year old tugboat that remained […]

SOS Styling, Modern Day Work Ethic

A Duramax and Allison-Swapped 4100 Series Chevrolet It was supposed to just be a work truck, but for Phil Prinster—a man that’s made his old […]

The Scout: International Harvester

Two Surviving Prototype Scout Diesels The International Scout was diesel before diesel was cool. Diesels were nothing new for International Harvester, in their truck lines […]

Gray Marine 6-71 General Motors Series

The Gray Marine 6-71 in the Higgins Boat When we talk about a great or historic engine, sometimes we need to talk more about what […]

4 HOT ROD DIESELS

Diesel Hot Rods That Pack A Punch Among this list are some of the craziest looking builds that may look worn or small, but pack […]

3 CLASSY DIESEL CARS

American Muscle Showcasing American Diesel Muscle cars are some of the most iconic cars in the automotive community because of their history and mind-blowing performance. […]

5 POWER-HUNGRY CLASSIC CHEVY TRUCKS

Kicking Ass With Some Class! These diesel Chevy trucks have quite a few years under their belt, however, they’re still performing as if they’re right […]

THE TWO FACES OF THE IH TD-6 CRAWLER

Classy & Powerful Diesel Tractors The 1950s was the last decade in which the small crawler was a player in the agricultural tillage industry. To […]

VINATGE SMOKE

A 1950 Cat D315 Caterpillar was on a roll before World War II and rapidly dominating the crawler market. The war sped that roll up […]

5 CLASSY & POWERFUL FORDS

America’s Original Brand Featuring Vintage Power The modern diesel trucks are some of the coolest vehicles seen on the road, however, the older diesels still […]

TRACTOR TALK

1969 MASSY-FERGUSON 1130 The early 1960s marked the beginning of the large scale application of turbocharging to diesels in the tractor world. Massey-Ferguson’s (MF) first […]

FOUR-STROKE FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks-Morse 36A Engines Fairbanks-Morse was a well-established engine manufacturer when they started the development of their first four-stroke, high-speed diesel in 1932. The term “high-speed” […]

THE FIRST TURBO TRACTOR ALLIS-CHALMERS D-19

The turbo diesel is so commonplace today that naturally aspirated diesels stand out. Go back nearly 60 years and the opposite was true. In 1961, […]

Tractor Talk: 1999 Massey Ferguson 271

1999 Massey Ferguson 271 In every walk of life there are people who work in the background and just get stuff done. Nothing about them […]
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Jimmy Screamin’ at Ollie: 1963 Oliver 1900 GM 4x4

The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing […]
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The 450hp Duramax-Powered '58 Chevy Apache

When we first spotted Bill Cielo’s ’58 Chevy pickup at a local dyno event, we literally ran over to see if it was diesel powered. […]
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The Hundred Series: 1958 Oliver 770 Diesel Tractor

By the late 1950s, Oliver was still a major player in the tractor market, but more and more, bigger players were overshadowing the manufacturer. Oliver […]
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Django: The 1962 Ford F-100 Unibody Pickup

In the world of custom trucks every detail counts, and the more unique those details are the better. Randy Weaver, owner of Weaver Customs in […]
If you are not a “red tractor” person, you may be confused with the interchanging of “International Harvester” and “McCormick-Deering” in this story. The McCormick-Deering tractors were a products built by International Harvester. International Harvester was formed by the merger of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the Deering Harvester Company in 1902, both of which were developing internal combustion engines and tractors at the time of their merger. Both were prestigious companies with lots of name recognition, so McCormick-Deering was a name that worked to bring fans of both to the company, plus settle a monopoly issue with the government over keeping two separate companies. By the end of the 1930s, the McCormick-Deering badged tractors became fewer and International Harvester or McCormick branded tractor began becoming more prevalent. By the late 1950s, in the USA at least, the McCormick branded tractors were also gone.

The First WD-40: 1935 McCormick-Deering WD-40

You’re forgiven if “WD-40” brought something else to mind. Before that incredibly useful product was invented, there was an equally useful product with the same […]
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