Antique Truck Left to Rot!!! (Will It Start and Drive?)

My father and uncles work for the Van Buren county road commission up in Michigan back in the 1970s . The plow trucks for plowing snow on the roads in the winter time had huge v plows on the front they were bright orange 5 yd dump trucks with bottom plows also attached to the underbelly of the truck. These trucks at high RPM were loud and scary looking to a child watching them come towards you. And nothing at all could you could stop them from completing their job clearing every road in the county. We ended up buying a 56 in the 1980s for our farm use. " as a teenager I learned to operate this truck quite easily fore we used it year-round on our farm. We would use the grader underbelly plow to level our long gravel driveway in the summer and snow removal in the winter .we would fill the dump box full of fire wood that we cut or sand and gravel that we needed to apply on various areas of the farm .we ended up selling it years ago and it still is in use on another farm today serving the same purpose it did for my family .if I had this boom truck I would restore it and put a flat bed on it to haul anything I wanted and take it to local truck and tractor shows also .😊

Why didn't you prime the carburetor

I felt so happy to see the old girl pull herself out of years of neglect! Hopefully she's getting restored to her former glory and being looked after on her dotage!! 😁😁😁

That truck definetly deserves to be roadworthy again. Good vid.

This is a testimonial to these old engines and their resilience! It's amazing how when you first started it it actually was idling on its own! Great video!

Those International R lines were very popular in the 50's and 60's ! My grandfather had one with that straight 6 engine. Excellent truck !

oh man I Love old internationals. I just watched someone else dig one of these, almost exact trucks too, out of the weeds. It was used in the Oil industry and used for Drilling . Had what looked like the attachments and all the equipment attached to the rear ... it was a Beast . I rem driving one of these old trucks when i was a kid, uncle had a few and some were turned into Forklifts, Massive forklifts for Logging, was a thing in Northern Canada. They would remove the cab from the front and slide it to the rear and stick on the lift and whatnot to the rear and would drive backwards. A lot of them were all controlled with levers, no steering wheel , all hydrolic, however ya spell it. I must have driven a dozen of those home made forklifts, and they were Huge.. So much fun to drive and operate when your 8 years old :) They made do with what they had back then, thats for sure .. Great memories these trucks bring back . Cheers .

I love these old American trucks and pickups and it fascinates me how robust they are, starting after decades abandoned. Great content. Thank you. Best wishes from New Zealand. I look forward to more footage. Good luck.

I would think checking electrical system like coils, points, ground, etc would be right after oil check/ change. Of course you’ve got to see if it will crank a little. That will be one heck of a truck if it’s totally restored. One mean machine.

Really nice find. I saw the factory split exhaust, with right mufflers it will have great exhaust note.

There's something really satisfying about even watching a video like this. While it's easier to wake up some of these old workhorses than newer vehicles, it still takes some effort to get that far. Hope she makes herself useful as a street legal tow truck

I want to give a huge shout out to the starter and battery for a lifetime of starts in a few days. With all that work this truck deserves to be repaired and painted! Definitely a survivor!

That was a great place to end it. Can't wait for the next episode !

Yikes, it has some seriously square rear wheels! 😄 Small wonder, after sitting out there for all these years. Good job returning this beast to life, and good luck with the restoration job!

Anyone who can get an old truck like this to run again is a very good mechanic!! I admire his skills. I like that old truck!!

God Bless! I don't know who's more thrilled! You for getting it going or us for being lucky enough to see it happen !a big thanks...

Nice rig. Good job getting it running. Look forward to the next one.

Good job on getting the old truck running .I hope that you are able to restore the old truck to the former glory, that it had, in years gone by; both mechanical & cosmetic.

There you go clean and adjust those points. Good luck with the make shift tab in the distributor. You need a squirt bottle for filling the fuel bowl. A old Ketchup bottle from a restaurant or a flea market works great.

That's a cool truck. I love internationals. I'm so happy that people give to love to trucks that are in need!