The International Harvester R140 4×4s Ordered for Minuteman Missile Engineers

This is a 4×4 1954 International Harvester R140 that was specially ordered by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Chief Engineers of the Minuteman Missile System in South Dakota. Just five were made, and three are known to survive. The 4×4 version of the R140 was ideally suited to carrying engineering crews out to remote sites during the development and construction phase of the Minuteman ICBM systems from the 1950s through into the 1960s… read more >