1947 Dodge Truck - Jealous campers everywhere are in awe
Channel: Two Guys and a Ride
Date: 2019-08-13

1947 Dodge Truck - Jealous campers everywhere are in awe 

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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