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When commercial sales of the trucks restarted post-war, they resumed as the 1946 Dodge W-series. [7] Historic author on Dodge trucks, Don Bunn, noted that the 1939–1947 Job-Rated trucks represent a very significant segment in Dodge history. They were the first to be mass-produced in the new, huge (Mound Road) Warren truck plant.
The civilian Power Wagon continued the lineage of limited production Dodge 4WD trucks from the 1930s, that proved basic four-wheel drive design concepts, primarily for the military. Mechanically derived from Dodge's 1942–1945 3/4-ton WC series military trucks, the Power Wagon was introduced in 1946 as the first civilian production 4x4 truck ...
1940 Dodge VC-5 Open Cab pickup. The classic, pre-war bucket seats attempted to keep occupants on board, prior to the introduction of seat belts. The first of the 1 ⁄ 2-ton, 4x4, VC series military trucks were based on Dodge's 1939 commercial, one-ton rated model TC-series. The military VC models kept the same wheelbase and got the same ...
Dodge, an American brand of ... has produced numerous vehicles carying the brand name including pickup trucks, ... 1946: 1949: Kingsway [n1 1] 194? 1959: Meadowbrook ...
They replaced the prewar Dodge truck and were replaced by the Dodge C series in 1954. The B-series trucks came in several different variants. The B1-B were ½-ton trucks standard with a 95 hp (71 kW) flathead-straight-six engine while the B1-C were ¾-ton trucks with a standard 108 hp (81 kW) flathead-straight 6 engine. It also came in several ...
The Dodge Custom is a full-size car which was produced by Dodge in the United States from 1946 to early 1949, and was also called the DeLuxe in a more basic trim package. . Dodge was very fluid with model nameplates and during the 1930s updated them yearly based on marketing objectives, while the actual vehicle was largely unchanged for what became known as the "Senior Dodge's" that were ...
This story originally appeared in the February 1989 issue of Car and Driver.. To hear Bruce Benedict tell it, inventing the first modern ragtop pickup truck was not a stroke of genius but rather ...
Chrysler Corporation introduced the DeSoto brand of trucks in 1937 to provide a greater number of sales outlets overseas for the American-built Dodge and Fargo commercial vehicles. The DeSoto brand was badge-engineered sporadically on Dodge trucks made in Argentina by its Chrysler local subsidiary (for the D-100 and the D-400 [ 8 ] since 1960 ...