1947 Dodge Truck - Jealous campers everywhere are in awe
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- 1947 Dodge Truck - Jealous campers everywhere are in awe
Wow what a treat! Thanks Vicki and Jay for sharing your super cool 1947 Dodge Pickup and 1948 Teardrop Glamper with us...all you Winnebago fans...eat your hearts out!
1947 Dodge Truck
In 1939 Dodge presented a completely new designed line of pickups and trucks, with streamlined, art-deco styling front sheetmetal. Introducing the concept of "Job- Rated", Dodge tried to offer customers the truck that fit the job they were buying it for. As a result, the Dodge pickup / truck range from 1939 onwards offered an exceptionally large number of available variants - six different payload ratings, a wide range of bodies, more than twenty different wheelbase-lengths were manufactured, and fitted with different sized versions of the Chrysler-sourced inline six-cylinder side-valve engines - from the half-ton TC pickup on a 116-inch wheelbase to three-ton tractor cabs. Nevertheless, mechanically, the trucks were all very similar, with solid axles front and rear and leaf springs at all four corners. With World War II taking up most of production capacity from 1942 to 1945, the 1939 styling continued largely unchanged through 1947, as engineering and production became the main focus.
The Dodge trucks enjoyed some popularity before the war, and the last of them built in 1942, before Dodge turned to mostly military production, had progressed to the W-series model name. When they resumed sales post-war, they continued as the 1946 Dodge W-series.
Historic author on Dodge trucks, Don Bunn, noted that the 1939 to 1947 Dodge Job-Rated trucks represent a very significant segment in Dodge history. They were the first to be produced in the new, huge (Mound Road) Warren truck plant. These trucks also formed the basis for Dodge's first light-duty military four-wheel drives, in 1940, as well as the world's first factory 4WD commercial pickups. Additionally, Dodge was the first of the Big Three U.S. truck manufacturers to offer a diesel powered version - all the more exceptional, given that Chrysler had engineered its heavy-duty diesel in-house. Today, this series is the most popular pickups with Dodge truck collectors
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1947 Dodge Truck - Jealous campers everywhere are in awe
We use to own this vehicle. My husband is the one who did all the work restoring this truck. The wood on the box is saguaro cactus from Arizona. It had been sitting for years in the rafters of our pole building. Glad you are enjoying it.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing and for watching
Any chance you have how to build the tear drop?
my dad rolled his 1940 dodge pick up barely a dent in it....it was rolled back out of the ditch in the early 60s....and he drove it away like nothing ever happened
That was thicker and tougher steel back then. They don't make 'em like they used to. Thanks for watching!
I have a 46 Now all original 2 ton flat bed love the truck
Thats cool! Thanks for watching
I had a '48 just like this one. Moved all the lumber up the mountain to build my house.
Those old trucks weren't fancy...they were rugged work horses. Thanks for watching!
@@TwoGuysandaRide I paid $100 for my '48 in '65 and proceeded to build my house, using it to haul all of the lumber up the mountain. The top of the cab is bashed in from the weight of all that timber, but the truck ran and ran and ran.
Did you sell it or retire it out in the woods?
@@TwoGuysandaRide I had to let the truck go in 1975. This was to be my retirement home, and it was pretty much all woods at the time and a few vacation cottages. However, the make up of the area changed drastically in the 1980s, which brought urban sprawl to this formerly rural area.
I'm building a 1948 dodge right now!
LOVE IT.
Its a really cool truck for a very cool couple. Thanks for watching!
@@TwoGuysandaRide I'm after the same type of truck here in England to do the same thing.
Good luck! Share a picture of it when you buy it!
@@TwoGuysandaRide Cheers I will.
Got one just like it. Stock motor. What motor do you have in it?
No think they have a newer 318 in there now. Thanks for watching
She’s cool
She is cool and her truck is too. Thanks for watching!
Both are cool 👍But the truck is cooler 😁
Love the truck
But the people talk talk talk too much
Yeah, but it’s their story so I let them talk