[AT] New old truck

Thu Mar 12 20:46:57 PDT 2020

It's an arm and a leg to re-plate one that has been un-plated for several
years here too. All excise taxes, wheel taxes  etc. but I found a way
around it and have used it a few times. Title processing is reasonable and
if you just sell it everything starts over clean. Nothing due to the state.
Scott owns a few things now. Any vehicles and trailers all go to him anyway
so I am slowly transferring stuff into his name now. Most of my stuff is
old and of fairly low value so they don't really care about it.
I once had to have a police check of a title for an old trailer I bought
for $200. When the officer stopped out he just signed the paper. He said
"We don't care what you do with a $200 trailer..."  :-)  In KY they don't
even plate small trailers. Here they plate any trailer you haul stuff on
but do not plate tow-able tools like cement or mortar mixers or log
splitters, trenchers, limb chippers etc. a couple of the things they do
where Scott works is underground boring and pipe bursting. The
state questioned the boxes / racks where they haul the stems they use but
finally decided that since they were only used on those machines and they
were not hauling pipe it was OK to not plate those machines. I don't know
why they even questioned them, it's not like there are not hundreds of
those things on the road. Bureaucratic silliness I guess.

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:58 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> I found Rock Auto has a lot of old stuff available.   Fooled me.    I was
> looking at their catalog last night and found kingpin and bushings for the
> old 66 C60  And at reasonable prices...  I ordered a lot of suspension
> parts for my 98 Chevy C85 from them last year.  The biggest gripe I have
> with Rock Auto is that sometimes on a larger order it will come from 3 or
> more warehouses and there is a shipping and handling charge for each one.
> They have some warehouse liquidation buys that are really cheap and high
> quality...  Here is a link to that IHC water pump
> https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/international,1973,1210,5.6l+345cid+v8,1409756,cooling+system,water+pump,2208
>   I have on old 75 3/4 ton 4x4 IHC that had a 304 but I had a 345 in a 1
> ton and swapped them.  I also swapped the power steering box to the 3/4
> also..
>
> Here in OK if we don't tag a vehicle in 2 years it costs over $300 to tag
> it.  It used to be $0.25/day up to the price of the tag then double tag for
> the penalty and they only went back 2 years.   For an old truck or car, it
> would run no more than $100.  Then the state got broke and greedy and it
> went to over $300 depending on what tag agency figures it...  `We can put a
> black sticker on the tag that means it will not be used and no penalty will
> accrue.   I have a bunch of old trucks that have black tags because the
> mandatory insurance law would just break the budget.  It is $27.50 for a
> black tag sticker.  To insure a 2 ton or larger farm truck is about $50/yr
> on a farm fleet use.  In OK every vehicle on the road must be insured.  In
> Arkansas, a farmer can buy a liability policy for about $300/yr that covers
> him driving any vehicle he gets into.  OK is run by the oil patch and the
> insurance lobby, so we don't have a chance to save on insurance....
>
> Rambling again....
> Cecil
> On 3/12/2020 2:23 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>
> Gee, imagine any of us "rambling"...  :-)  I always have a soft spot for
> old trucks. I have an old 1965 IHC 1600 Load Star that I don't really have
> any reason to own. My tandem axle trailer or even just one of the pickups
> is all I need most of the time. If I need something heavy hauled son Scott
> can bring something home from a small trailer up through stages of
> goose-necks and his take-home ton work truck through heavy tag behind a
> single axle dump, a tri-axle dump on up to a very long trailer semi. I do
> work very hard to not abuse the privilege and to mostly deal with my own
> stuff as much as I can.
> I have not plated the IHC lately but try to keep it viable. All that it
> really needed was tires and I found a set of 6 (2 steering and 4 lug type)
> that someone had bought new for an old truck and then blew up the engine
> after only putting a few hundred miles on the tires. You can still see the
> mold marks on the face of the tread. I hope to get those installed this
> summer and some little stuff. Oh, yeah, it also needs a passenger side
> running board (or a step ladder). It has a very good twin cylinder hoist
> and a good step plate floor in the bed. I hauled a lot of grain with it
> before I retired and occasionally a load of stone.  I would love to have a
> two speed axle for it, it is geared quite low. It's just a 4 speed (first
> is granny gear) and it sounds wound out pretty high at 55 MPH in 4th. I
> can't justify a 2 speed so I'll just keep good oil in it and change it
> often. It won't get many miles on it.
> Speaking of rambling...
> Son Scott just bought an old IHC pickup last Saturday. It is a 1973 4x4
> with a 345. Quite a bit of body rust but not a lot of dents and the frame
> looks very good. I believe it was last plated about 3 years ago. Under the
> hood looked good and original, not butchered up. He got it started and said
> that it was only making the noises it was supposed to but the water pump
> was froze. Probably not a big problem. Stuff is fairly well available for
> the 345's.
>
>
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:50 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I went to an auction yesterday.  I should have bought the 6600 JD
>> combine that sold for $2000, but I didn't want to sleep with the cats in
>> the barn..   Also picked up a 32ft Field cultivator/spring tooth.  If I
>> take off the wigs I have a 12ft one and a lot of spare parts!!
>>
>> I went after the 66 Chevrolet C60 w/ 20 ft bed & hoist air tag axle,
>> Shurco tarp and Westfield drill fill auger.  For $2000 I figured the bed
>> & hoist was worth that.  My drill fill auger needs a new auger and it is
>> over $500.
>>
>> The truck looks like it has a 366 engine.  OEM would have been a 348 or
>> 409 I think..  This has the valve covers of the 366 & 427 but only a 2
>> bbl carb so I would guess 366.  It has a very worn 5 speed transmission
>> and a 2 speed axle that shifts ok.  The cab is not in bad shape for a
>> 66.  If I can swap the power steering gear from a 67 or 68 model I have
>> here, then I can change to the smaller steering wheel and maybe fit
>> behind the wheel. Either that or lose 100 lbs.  I was looking at
>> shortening the steering column as it can move forward under the dash If
>> I shorten the steering tube and re-cut the splines on the steering
>> shaft. I have a 18ft tilt bed hoist I would like to put on this one.  I
>> have a 427 & 5speed in another truck that would give it a little more
>> power.  The 366 did not seem to really have a lot of zip to it, but this
>> truck has only been used about 50 miles a year for the last 10 years.
>> If all else fails I can hop up a 350 with 10:1 compression and
>> propane......
>>
>> It is a lot of work, but I have this soft spot for the 60-66 Chevrolet
>> trucks.  I rebuilt a lot of engines in those years for hopped up farm
>> trucks.  I had a 52GMC 2 ton with a 16ft bed & hoist that would haul 300
>> bushel at 70mph.  Back then we did not have the traffic on the highways
>> we do now...
>>
>> Just rambling......
>>
>> Cecil
>>
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