After one and a half hours, dripping sweat, I had to abandon the car show (see previous posts for this date — just click July 15 slot on the side panel calendar). But first I met a guy named Mike from La Pine, OR, who spent 3.5 years building his ’55 International pickup. Yep, we had one of these on the Iowa farm, but it was utterly unlike this, save for body panels and shape and a few subtle details. And in our rather lengthy discussion of the machine, we also compared it to the rather outrageous International cab-over truck of about the same vintage, but done up in a sort of rat-rod take with a goat head (?) theme and skeleton dogs, noting that both truck and Mike’s pickup used the identical doors and some other details, obviously to save manufacturing costs. And I noticed that Mike wears a IH (International Harvester) logo on his shirt. Anyway …
