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In order to understand the 660--and the infamous recall that related to it and the 560--you need to roll the clock back to 1950. International Harvester was still the number one tractor manufacturer in the world, by a comfortable margin. Their Letter Series tractors had set the world on fire. Once the company was able to get their hands on enough steel to ramp up production—something that was a…
Although Harvester was plagued off and on with significant drive train failures, particularly as it applied more power to existing designs, when the company set out to create a new lineup of agricultural prime movers for the 1980s, failure was not an option. In development for more than half a decade, this new series was a formidable member of Harvester’s Meaningful Competitive Advantage program…
Jimmy Ray Jones was the founding father of the Scout racing program. Born in 1939, an electrician by trade, he lived in the San Diego area and was an avid off-roader. Jones began racing in local Southern California events in the 1960s and, according to a late ‘70s bio, he “raced ‘em all… minitrucks, sedans, bugs and modified four-wheel drives.” In ’69, he bought a Scout 800A V8 as a family…
The following is an exciting look at one of the grueling days behind the Adventure Motorcycle Calendar 2017. The original version of this article can be found here.
The road was extremely quiet overnight. We only heard one vehicle pass, a moto just after dusk. The only things around those parts were the cows and donkeys. The road to the bottom was in better…
When 1980 dawned, Harvester was expecting a bright future. The investments made into new equipment that began in the mid-1970s were beginning to hit the market. The company was reorganized, with component group heads who worked together to maximize and share resources. Harvester was one of the world’s largest equipment manufacturers, and the management team had a blend of cutting edge technology…
The Scout had a significant racing career that spanned decades. Off road racing was in its infancy when the Scout debuted but grew rapidly through the ‘60s and was a nationally recognized motorsport by the end of the decade. Not so coincidentally, that’s also when International began to take notice.
In the last years of the ‘60s, off-road racing had grown to national prominence and 4x4…
The following excerpt is from the book, The Build: How the Masters Design Custom Motorcycles by Robert Hoekman Jr. For the book, Robert interviewed some of today’s most notable builders, including Max Hazan, Jared Johnson, John Ryland, Jarrod DelPrado, and Alan Stulberg. This excerpt is a call to action to the high-design, adventurous type. It focuses on the value of either seeking out a custom…
The heat was stifling; although we were sitting on a moving vehicle, we felt like we were riding through a sauna. I was driving; Gyuszi Bartha sat in the sidecar, and Mimmy opted for her favorite place: the passenger seat. The oppressive silence was broken only by the puffing of the engine. Occasional cacti, twisted in fantastic shapes and white with desert dust, peppered the otherwise monotonous…
In Around the World on a Motorcycle, Zoltán Sulkowsky documents a daring voyage made by two Hungarian globe-trotters starting in 1928, one of the first successful and surprisingly little-known circumnavigation attempts on motorbike. Zoltán Sulkowsky and his friend Gyula Bartha, two motorized Magellans, spent years discovering for themselves, and for future readers, our world during the deceptive…
In Around the World on a Motorcycle, Zoltán Sulkowsky documents a daring voyage made by two Hungarian globe-trotters starting in 1928, one of the first successful and surprisingly little-known circumnavigation attempts on motorbike. Zoltán Sulkowsky and his friend Gyula Bartha, two motorized Magellans, spent years discovering for themselves, and for future readers, our world during the deceptive…