I’ve been on an International Travelall kick since I last visited the National Auto & Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana; for those of you who have never visited, NATMUS has a solid collection of Internationals and International memorabilia, including several Travelalls. While I might prefer the earlier styling, I sometimes find myself daydreaming of pulling an inexpensive pop-up camper behind an old Travelall as a retirement diversion for me and my lovely bride someday. It’s therefore hard not to be wistful when looking into the wide grille of this ’72, which threw me for an identification loop, as I’ll explain in a minute. It’s advertised on Marketplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as being “fresh out of the barn” after a 30-year hiatus; thanks to Barn Finds reader Sam61 for sending it our way.
It’s a tired complaint by now, but this is the only picture of the Travelall’s engine, and there are no other clues in the ad regarding which one we’re looking at. The air cleaner had me scouring my library and the internet, because International did indeed offer an AMC 401 when stocks of their own 392 were low, but that apparently occurred later on, 1973 at the earliest. Then I got wise and realized that this is a Ford Super Duty truck air cleaner: Ford offered the Super Duty V8 in three displacements, the smallest being 401 cubic inches. Do I think there’s a Ford engine under the hood? No, but all we know is that it’s a V8, probably an International 304, 345, or 392. But maybe someone swapped in an AMC 401 at some point?
Regardless of what’s in the engine bay, being in the barn for all those years appears to have saved this Binder; you don’t get quarter panels like that in Michigan otherwise. The seller claims that there are only 50,000 miles on the odometer, and I’m inclined to believe it based on this picture alone, although I would love some undercarriage pictures as long as it’s on the lift. The Travelall has been treated to a new fuel tank, fuel pump, tires, oil change, and carburetor rebuild to get it back on the road, although I would ask the owner about the brakes before driving it home.
The interior looks good, if not a little dirty. That is not a “Club” on the steering wheel but a plastic gear selector of some kind; I wonder what that’s all about.
With an asking price of $23,000, you’ll want to take a good look at this Travelall before peeling off any hundreds (by the way, yes…it has side pipes!). Big SUVs have taken off, like it or not, and Travelalls (like Scouts) are bound to benefit from the surge. With wood sides and clean sheetmetal, is this one going to pull the camper of your retirement dreams?
Not mentioned anywhere,but this appears to be 2WD.
The pictures are bad,as you can’t see if there’s a 4WD shift –
lever in the interior shot.Also,why no pictures of the whole
rig?It had to be in the open,between the barn & the shop.
This is a 1010 model, which is 2WD.
Then there’s no way anyone’s paying $23k for it.
Nice, my old man had one to pull our campers, briefly,, I can smell the gas from here and several expletives come to mind. I don’t recall the year, and I can’t blame it’s misgivings on IH. My old man was the poorest of maintenance, and I just remember everyone holding their breath until it started after one of the many gas stops. Back then ( late 60s), we didn’t care about such matters as gas mileage, but I guesstimate, it was single digits easy. Aside from my old mans abuse, the truck pulled the camper with ease, a tribute to its HD brothers. The old man switched to Suburbans that took his abuse much better. Great find and CB radio tells me their dad, whose truck this surely was, was a trucker or a farmer. It’s hard to tell the difference in IH V8s, but tis’ no 401. The 401 put out 255hp, and had a different thermostat housing, besides IH would never use Fords “Super Duty” moniker. They were arch rivals.
Growing up on a farm in the 1970s, we had a similar 71 Travellal like this one and a 1963 version. I learned to drive with the 63. Only a six cylinder, no power steering or power brakes. While the 71 RWD had all of those options and a V8, but I wasn’t allowed to drive that one very often. They were all workhorses.
This SUV has no rust. Amazing, considering these tended to get the tin worm. And it’s located in Michigan! I’d give this some hard consideration if I was in the market for a Travelall.
We had one in “gas chamber “ green. A sturdy beast. The GMC dealer gave us a $500 trade in allowance toward a suburban.
The asked price is optimistic at best. The lack of photos does not help. If it was a 1210… and “really” a 50,000 miler. Maybe. But not for a 1010.
As much as I like this Travelall, it’s only a $10k vehicle on a good day.
If those wheel arches are as nice as they look, this one is nice. Nobody makes reproductions and repairs never look right. Maybe not $23K nice to working stiff me, but cheaper than restoring one. Miss the days when one or two weirdos in the neighborhood had these.
If I had this I’d have to get those baby blue, casual coveralls and a V neck T-shirt showing chest hair to creep everyone out. But so the look for this!
remember them when 3 dor (no 2nd driver’s side dor). Got it all over the suburban