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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 03/19/2020 at 11:43 • Filed to: None

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This variant is nicknamed a “Highbinder”. I wonder why...

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/19/2020 at 11:56

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I’m loving all these “we shortened the frame and stuck the cab on top of the original hood” designs lol

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/19/2020 at 12:04

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A weirdness that I encountered looking for other old Binder pics.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 03/19/2020 at 12:09

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The really weird thing about the “Highbinder” is that it looks like that done with a Loadstar... which they weren’t even making yet! A normal ‘54 International looks like this:

They wouldn’t be making the Loadstar until ‘62!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/19/2020 at 13:17

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The loadstar has more curves, so it can’t be the same casting. Must have been testing out their design language where no one could see it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 03/19/2020 at 14:27

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Yep, my thought as well. The grill in particular is “testing the waters”. The fender panels also have simpler lines than either the predecessor or the Loadstar , and aren’t terribly hard to make that way, so it wasn’t even expensive . If you look at the front fender of a Series II Land-Rover, they’re quite similar to a stripped-down version of that .

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/19/2020 at 14:40

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I lov e cab over semis, but that is.....not great.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 03/19/2020 at 14:53

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TAKE CAB AND PUT FIREWALL ON TOP OF RADIATOR DURR HURR.

It is a little awkward, I’ll give you.

Have a slightly more elegant but also cheap execution as a palate cleanser (Diamond T):

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/19/2020 at 15:00

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My favorite are the stubby front style. Very “of their time”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 03/19/2020 at 15:43

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Kenworth’s ‘50s cabover heavy-duty was very “muscular” looking.

The Petes were a little more subdued:

In my opinion, the “stubby” style like you posted with a free-standing engine compartment has scarcely ever been bettered in the ‘46 Ford:

International had actually gone to a combined-fender look on small COEs as early as the ‘30s.

But then, after the war with their medium duty and up COEs, they got just plain weird.

Meanwhile, I found what Ford did in ‘36 before making the ‘38 “horsecollar” cabovers everybody likes. It’s not a pretty picture. Egad:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 03/19/2020 at 15:44

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Looks like Studebaker made a pretty COE in the ‘30s: