So I was looking into a 56 2D Chieftan for $3,800, and of course it was sold but this guy told me about a 41 international pickup for a bit less ($3,000) 6 cylinder 233 green diamond,4 speed transmission,all stainless steel grille,99% rust free. Picture actually looks better than I thought. I am really jonesing for another old car and I have Tax money burning a hole. But I never really considered a Truck. Any thoughts? That SS grille is supposedly worth a little bit and it is a last year before the war vehicle, which I always find cool.
hale yea! you'll never regret buying it. they remind me of the same year ford from the front and you won't pull up to another one at every show. pool.
Those KB trucks are sweet if you ask me!Like the early 50,s Stude cars they are a design ahead of the time....
Cool, get it they make neat rigs. I have a 1946 K-2, a 1947 KB-1, and a 1949 KB-2. It probley has a 214 Green Diamond the 233's where in the K-5 and larger.
Do it. I have a k-5 and drive the crap outa it during the summer. Though mine does not look nearly that good and have a dump box on the back.
I have been debating what could be done with this sweetheart. It's right by my place but it's a big mutha: Powerband
I've gotta couple of those KBs, I really dig-em! I'm gonna do one o mine gasser style when I get my current project done! I'd like to think of it as my poor mans WILLYS!!! Chad
Powerband. Mine's a KB-5 as well, and I'm just using the cab and center of the grill shell. Fenders too long, and opening is too big to use the fenders. If I had a motor and tranny as it looks like you do, I'd probably have used them just to be different. You have a great truck to work with. Count yourself lucky.
Those ol' Binders are starting to show up. They make great drivers and are not common as bellybuttons! Where in Missouri are you?
My KB-6 I got almost a year ago. Looks much better dry. Possibly the most solid old vehicle I've ever got. A little rust here and there...but its all together. Cabs too big and "new" to go fenderless (Unless its a RATROD...haha...nah), too strangely laid out to swap onto an normal truck frame, too solid to carve up, too clunky as it is to do anything with. Maybe someone with an KB-fetish would be interested?
I was always more of a Scout fan, but I passed up a really cheap International 1 ton in Galesburg Kansas with a 229 V8 or something along those CI lines, so I am gonna have to go check this thing out then. I am in KC, but the truck is in Gardner, so Even though I risk losing the deal by saying at least it would be to a HAMB'r. Anyway, Cyrus, I was and still call home DesMoines. I grew up in Ankeny, but spent most of my Time on the south side.
Frosty21, the K-6/KB-6 and up used the earlier 1937-1940 D series cabs, There are very little difference in that cab and a 1/2 ton D series cab, Removeable rocker for battery, some firewall diffs, and different cab mounts).
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