Some of you may remember about a month ago I hinted at my latest bad idea.. or great idea (depending who you are talking to), a 1950 Dodge Pickup Truck. I found this truck when buying some old VW parts cars from an extremely nice “old stuff collector” in my area. After a winter of milling it over, I decided I needed to try something out of my comfort zone of 70′s-80′s European Cars. I have always loved 40′s and 50′s cars, with their round lines, big bubble fenders, and exquisite grills and hood emblems.. they just ooze style!
So fast forward to early March and we got some of our first warm-ish weather. I decided to give my buddy “Whitey” a visit and see if I could strike a deal on one of his old 50′s Dodge pickup trucks. After I got the grand tour again (Whitey loves to show off his old stuff if you ask nicely), he brought me to the most complete of the bunch and told me the story. Apparently he had daily driven this truck since the late 50′s up until about 88 or 89. That was, until he had a bad waterpump, overheated the engine and cracked the head. Since Whitey was so busy with work and other projects, he parked the truck hoping to get it fixed some day. He did eventually get the cylinder head off, but never got any further than that. Now some 23 years later, here I was handing him cold hard cash for this bad boy.
So this past Saturday I went out with the local flatbed driver and pulled it out of the woods. After clearing out all of the odds and ends from in front of the truck, we were able to get it up on the truck. I shot a quick video of the process and you can see how locked up the rear was when we went to pull it out.
After getting it unloaded here at Eastwood, I got to working on the Dodge today. I cleaned the junk out of the cab, pulled the seat, and began vacuuming the inside of the truck. You can see below that cab is pretty dang solid thus far!
Stay tuned for more updates later this week!
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Rod
April 14th, 2011
Nice old pickup. Here in Australia they were also available in Fargo and Desoto versions as well.. Much the same as the Dodge version except for the name plates. The pickup beds were also a little wider too on all our local versions.
The steering wheel was located on the right hand side.
David T Marc
June 7th, 2011
SCRAPPY
David T Marc
June 7th, 2011
Name The Truck SCRAPPY !
Bryan
June 7th, 2011
“LIL DEAD EXPRESS”
Jim Martin
June 7th, 2011
Looks like ” The SLEEPER” to me
-B- GONZALES
June 7th, 2011
This truck is Ram tuff so maybe ( TUFF TRUCK ) .
RICK BROUGHTON
June 7th, 2011
NAME IT “RUSTY,THE WORK HORSE OF YESTER YEAR”
BONTYCar
June 7th, 2011
This name “DEADGE”
fareon hickman
June 7th, 2011
57 Dodge i thing thats a 57
fareon hickman
June 7th, 2011
name it iron horse
Nelson Samot
June 7th, 2011
Name it the Green Ghost…It is coming back to haunt the streets again
Nelson Samot
June 7th, 2011
Or how about the “green goblin”
jeremy
June 7th, 2011
That truck sure looks eerily familiar to one my friend just picked up recently after sitting in a yard for a very very long time.
Same color and everything! Here are some pictures of it:
http://blog.1aauto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/B-Series-Dodge-Truck_1.jpg
http://blog.1aauto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/B-Series-Dodge-Truck_2.jpg
http://blog.1aauto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/B-Series-Dodge-Truck_3.jpg
http://blog.1aauto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/B-Series-Dodge-Truck_4.jpg
Al Brown
June 7th, 2011
I would suggest the truck be named with a name
that would recognize it’s past and proclaim it’s
FUTURE. If it were mine it would be named
REINCARNATED RAM or
” ONE MEAN RESERECTED RAM”
J.R. Andres
June 7th, 2011
I think Dura Mater would be a good name. It’s a play on the name of the p/u in “Cars”. Dura mater is a lining on the brain and spine, so combining dura for durable and mater, from “Cars” would be kool.
Holly Palmer
June 7th, 2011
The Rust Bucket rides again!!!!!
dave
June 7th, 2011
“Old faith full” the truck lasted 38 to 39 years and only the water pump stoped it..todays car barley last 15yrs
Pat Durazzo
June 7th, 2011
No, no, no, its a Dodge and its gotta’ have a Hemi…
then Name it ” Dodgezilla”
Jim Bisbee
June 7th, 2011
“LOCKJAW” – rear axle locked, rusty metal could give you tetanus. A few shots of Eastwood medicine and she will be cured!
Larry Owens
June 7th, 2011
The Golum Dodge
d. calhoun
June 7th, 2011
name the dodge ” IT LIVES “
tina
June 7th, 2011
big bertha
Robin Washington
June 7th, 2011
RAMROD 2011
ralph ares
June 7th, 2011
“FARGO CARGO” IS THE NICKNAME
Bruce Van Zutphen
June 7th, 2011
name the truck (Memories lost)
Dave Bicknell
June 7th, 2011
name the Dodge Lasarus they both rose from the dead
Mike Wallace
June 7th, 2011
The name should be ” Buford W. Dodge “
Robert Behel
June 7th, 2011
I had a 48 dodge like this when i was 18 wish i still had it it really needed restoring. My choice for name is THE JUNKYARD DODGE.
Colby C
June 7th, 2011
Mad Dodge
Steve Bennett
June 7th, 2011
Truck should be called Clementine seeing how she old but still looks good
Daniel
June 7th, 2011
The Blue Meteor
pete
June 8th, 2011
the old girl dodge
ken schlessman
June 8th, 2011
desperado dodge
Roger L. Morazzano
June 8th, 2011
I would name it” alone Dodge city “
Randy Kirkley
June 8th, 2011
“Ole Critter”, “lil Critter”, “Rimshot”, “Ole Booger”, “Lil Booger”, and “Martha”.
Glenn Renner
June 8th, 2011
! Pilot House Predator ! After the war, this truck was nicknamed Pilot House due to all of the glass in the cab and the great visibility, just like the pilot house of a war ship. Thanks.
Dave Meyer
June 9th, 2011
Here you go- Draugr!
A draugr or draug (original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not “draugrs”), or draugen (Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning “the draug”), also known as aptrgangr (literally “again-walker”, or “one who walks after death”) is an undead creature from Norse mythology
Tony Bohannon
June 9th, 2011
Call it “Evergreen”
Mike Griffin
June 10th, 2011
Name it
“Green Manalishi”, or “Reincarnated Ram”, or “Resurrected Ram”, or “Deja vu”, or “Phoenix”, or “Voo-doo Dodge”
Michael
June 10th, 2011
call her the Matt ole ram
John Williamson
June 11th, 2011
I’d call him Legion like the movie or maybe Michael The Arc Angel
John Williamson
June 11th, 2011
Or even The Christ or The Mesiah
Rafael Rodriguez
June 11th, 2011
here a few name that can work,
Dodgerminator, Dogdester, Dodgemaggedon
WILLIAM LONGO
June 12th, 2011
NAME IT ” POWERLESS WAGON ”
or
“HEADLESS HEADACHE “
James marsh
June 13th, 2011
Git R Done Tators
Alan Carreon
June 13th, 2011
Its nickname should be something that might be uttered at certain times of frustration: “The F-Bomb”
David Austic
August 7th, 2011
Victus Mortuus might be fitting