we have been looking at a cool old international (half ton 4x4 69 travelall) well i went and took a test drive today then payed him and drove it home. it needs some work since it has sat for 2 years but its nothing i cant handle. i just had to tell someone. my wife said she wont drive it till i clean it up. when we first seen it it had a a deer skin hanging on it. when they did drive it they used it for canoeing and coon hunting. the floors are sold and it dont have alot of rust. my main binder buddy is out of town so i was getting itchy to tell some one of this great find. When we got there my wife asked to use the bathroom,"well its the little shack up the hill" lol he wasnt kidding. they have lived there 12 years with no running water. it was cool to see folks who still live like that . id have a problem with the outhouse my grand folks had theres till i was around 7 and i was scared to death of it and i still dont like them. i remember seeing Gpa in the big tub in the kitchen taking a bath, dont think id like to be the last one in, in a family of 8 the water must of been nasty by then here i am rambleing sorry just had to tell someone

-- Mike in KS (mhonk@kscable.com), March 10, 2002

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I remember those kind of baths too, the babies always got the cleanest water, and if we bigger ones came in from playing too well covered in that good ol' red dirt, we got hosed down outside and had to sit until we dried !!!

-- Thumper/inOKC (slrldr@yahoo.com), March 10, 2002.

Congrats on your Travelall, Mike! We used to have a half-ton HI truck that was this awful green color. We called it "The Hulk," and believe me, - people would move when they saw that thing coming at them! It was low geared and would go absolutely anywhere I wanted it to. Don't remember what happened to that old tank, but it sure was fun to run around in.

-- Phil in KS (pigfarmerphil@yahoo.com), March 11, 2002.

We got an old pick up truck today,I have wanted a truck for about 12 years now hubby finally agreed.Its not much to look at but it will work.As far as the no running water and out house and tub bathing,well I lived my first 12 years like that.I can take it or leave it ,but An inside toliet is nice in the winter and at night.

-- willa in IL. (goodall6@hotmail.com), March 11, 2002.

In Iowa and Montana we called those trucks " Binders" and I never knew why. They were so rusted away there were no bed or doors left but they ran like a sewing machine and pulled like a locomotive. I settled on a 74 Dodge -slant six--368,000 miles and still works everyday !

-- Joel Rosen (JoelnBecky@webtv.net), March 13, 2002.