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International Harvester 1066 Turbo. The International Harvester 1066 is a farm tractor that was made by International Harvester from 1971 to 1976. The 1066 has a six-cylinder diesel engine and about 105 drawbar and 125 PTO horsepower. The 1066 is significant for its popularity, with over 50,000 units having been built in its six-year run. [1]
The Farmall 1066 used a turbocharged version of the 966's 414-cubic-inch (6,780 cc) diesel engine. The Farmall 1066 Hi-Clear was intended for high crops. An international Harvester-branded 1066 was offered as well. [16] [17] [18] About 55,000 1066s were produced, selling for between $12,900 to $13,900. [15]
Farmall was a model name and later a brand name for tractors manufactured by International Harvester (IH), an American truck, tractor, and construction equipment company. The Farmall name was usually presented as McCormick-Deering Farmall and later McCormick Farmall in the evolving brand architecture of IH.
The International Harvester Company (IHC) has been building its own proprietary truck engines since the introduction of their first truck in 1907. International tended to use proprietary diesel engines. In the 1970s, IHC built the DVT 573 V-8 diesel of 240 and 260 hp (179 and 194 kW) but these were not highly regarded and relatively few were sold.
The Farmall 1468 was produced beginning in 1971. It was essentially a Farmall 1466 with an International 549-cubic-inch (9,000 cc) diesel V-8 truck engine. Compared to the 1466, it was no more powerful, but made a distinctive noise and had two prominent exhaust stacks flanking the engine housing.
The International Harvester Company of Great Britain (IHGB) was established in 1906 to sell International Harvester equipment in the United Kingdom. Manufacturing was eventually established in Doncaster, at a plant on Wheatley Hall Road, in 1949. In 1954 a second plant opened in Bradford, operating until 1982. A second Doncaster plant opened at ...
The M was the larger of the two prominent row crop tractors produced by IH from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, along with the Farmall H and its variants, yet could still use the same implements. [5] As with the other letter-series IH tractors, the M used a modular design that allowed assemblies to be removed and replaced as units.
The first 2-3 digits was the horsepower rating, and the last number was the number of cylinders, so a 1486 was rated 148 hp and had a 6 cyl. engine, while the 1468 had 146 hp and a v8 engine. In 1964, IH made its four-millionth tractor, an 806. In 1965, IH introduced its first 100 hp (75 kW) two-wheel-drive tractor, the 1206.