International 4200 (2005) : Van / Box Trucks

International 4200 (2005)

Sale price: US $4,400.00

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This 2005 International 4200 Box Truck is ready to go out and get the dirty work done. It was mainly used for short hauls from a local farm in New Jersey. It"s got very low miles for its age, but it does have the sort of surface rust you"d expect from an ag vehicle in the North (see pics). Sand it, rough it, coat it with a rubberized sealant and you"ve got yourself one heck of a deal on the best medium-duty truck for new box drivers. If it"ll be customer-facing, you may want a fresh coat of Harvester red on the hood, though the rest of the cab paint is in pretty great shape.
Truck runs and drives great and includes a lift gate rated for 800 pounds—perfect for in-town home drop-offs, medium-duty sales routes, and any other task your delivery, logistics, agriculture, or equipment-intensive small business may conjure up for it.. A previously interested buyer wanted to turn it into a food truck with a little retractable snow cone hut on the lift. With these uber-reliable International trucks (not long after this model year, they renamed the line DuraStar to denote its million-mile potential), the possibilities really may just be endless. Ready to make deliveries, or take charge of your future and get that company off the ground? Just put this little beast into drive.
Featuring the Allison 5-Speed Automatic Transmission that convinced GM to kill its manual-shift diesels, and an engine made by theirs truly, the International kings of the diesel block.
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It was the late 1990s, and International Truck and Engine had a problem. They were a leading producer of service vehicles, medium and heavy trucks, and mid-range diesel engines. Had been for years. Their DT466 engine was legendary—the undisputed diesel unit of choice for the medium-truck segment. Manufacturers fought each other for International"s limited output of engines. One executive threw a punch.
But International hadn"t come out with a new vehicle model in nearly 20 years, and their commercial single-axle sales were taking a hit from innovative new market entrants like VW. So International Truck—an Industry Classic—did something they hadn"t since the Nixon administration: they became a company of innovators. And they did it how one always does these things: with the help of their friends.
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In 2001, International Truck and Engine partnered with their biggest engine-buyer, Ford, on a 50/50 joint venture called Blue Diamond Trucking. The truck line they created under the International badge would go down as one of the most successful brand collaborations of all time, the 4000 Line—with chassis taken from the new-school Ford medium-duty F Series, and engines—including the VT365 in the unit for sale today—straight out of International"s playbook. The engine that would later become famous as Ford"s Power Stroke Diesel. A leaner, more fuel efficient engine that also made its way into some of the fancy pants school bus models of the period.
But don"t let reliable enough to shuttle kindergartners make you think wimpy and boring. By this time, the VT was well known as the littler medium diesel engine with the punch—and 2005 also happened to be the model year in which they punched it still further, knocking the VT"s horsepower to 570 @ 2000 RPM.
***Incidentally, if you"ve heard anything about oil cooler or head bolt problems with this engine, please be aware that those issues were limited to the Ford applications due to an engineering issue out of Detroit.
Meanwhile, in little Lisle, Illinois, the employees at International were tipping bottles.
All of a sudden, a company with a model every 20 years was pushing out bleeding-edge commercial trucks every few months, doing business like the youngbloods, and beating them at their game—not with CD Changers and back-scratchers, but with features so simple—you might say elegant—you wonder how no one had come up with them before.
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Instead of chasing fads in the accoutrements department like other truck lines of the time, International focused on the three (3) most vital concerns for the medium-truck driver:
Safety
See that big honking windshield in the pics? The 4000 series introduced that to improve driver visibility by 60%—another reason the 4200 is the most highly approachable truck for new box drivers.
Profit-Improvement
If the steel-encased cab wasn"t enough to clue you in, these trucks were and remain All. Business. And as the pilot line for the renowned Allison 1000—the automatic transmission so good it killed the stick shift—this truck was born with an eye on the long-run. Enthusiasts will crow, and they have their reasons, but for the purchasing managers who ordered this equipment, the choice was a simple one. It was right there in the expense sheets: the Allisons saved you money, reduced downtime and catastrophe, and also happened to completely outclass every manual shift diesel on the market when it came to torque capacity.
Power
And now we return to our old friend, the Galloping Gray Iron, the DT466 and the hallmark pair of systems that gave it that fire and brimstone reputation:
Direct Fuel Injection, and
The TurbochargerThese were the foundations on which the 466 was built. But the VT365 wasn"t simply a kid brother engine with a bit of a bite.
Its the variable-geometry turbo introduced in this model year (2005), which changed the turbo game by morphing its shape at different speeds to maximize throttle and cut drag while also improving fuel economy—at a time when penny-pinching at the gas pump was anything but the norm. Now, with $3 gas seemingly here to stay, these International 4000s are looking better all the time.
Nowadays, Fords get all the consumer-grade glory, but a lesser known story is how these First-Gen 4200s helped put American-made commercial vehicles back on the map for a certain sort of industry watcher.
The lesson here? Old dogs are actually pretty good with new tricks—as long as they stay true to themselves.
Even if they need a little help from their friends.
And also you should buy an International truck.
Specifically this one.
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