Wheels: Plows

My first plow truck was a 1970 International Harvester 1200D. It was a stout three-quarter-ton standard cab, 8-foot bed, as most pickups were back then, with a torquey 345-cubic-inch V8, four-speed with a “granny gear,” power steering and power drum brakes, dual “west coast mirrors,” stainless-steel “dog dish” hubcaps without centers so the hubs could stick through, cab clearance lights, and of course, four-wheel drive, and that’s about it for factory features and options.

I don’t know what color it was originally but at some point, it was painted Mopar Plum Crazy Purple that faded to a horrible shade of maroon so my local Maaco resprayed it in the same color code. It rode high on stiff leaf-spring packs and rolled on 16.5-inch split rims and mismatched tires.