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!
Victus Mortuus might be fitting
Its nickname should be something that might be uttered at certain times of frustration: “The F-Bomb”
Git R Done Tators
NAME IT ” POWERLESS WAGON ”
or
“HEADLESS HEADACHE “
here a few name that can work,
Dodgerminator, Dogdester, Dodgemaggedon
Or even The Christ or The Mesiah
I’d call him Legion like the movie or maybe Michael The Arc Angel
call her the Matt ole ram
Name it
“Green Manalishi”, or “Reincarnated Ram”, or “Resurrected Ram”, or “Deja vu”, or “Phoenix”, or “Voo-doo Dodge”
Call it “Evergreen”
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
! 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.
“Ole Critter”, “lil Critter”, “Rimshot”, “Ole Booger”, “Lil Booger”, and “Martha”.
I would name it” alone Dodge city “
desperado dodge
the old girl dodge
The Blue Meteor
Truck should be called Clementine seeing how she old but still looks good
Mad Dodge
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.
The name should be ” Buford W. Dodge “
name the Dodge Lasarus they both rose from the dead
name the truck (Memories lost)
“FARGO CARGO” IS THE NICKNAME
RAMROD 2011
big bertha
name the dodge ” IT LIVES “
The Golum Dodge
“LOCKJAW” – rear axle locked, rusty metal could give you tetanus. A few shots of Eastwood medicine and she will be cured!
No, no, no, its a Dodge and its gotta’ have a Hemi…
then Name it ” Dodgezilla”
“Old faith full” the truck lasted 38 to 39 years and only the water pump stoped it..todays car barley last 15yrs
The Rust Bucket rides again!!!!!
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.
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”
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
Or how about the “green goblin”
Name it the Green Ghost…It is coming back to haunt the streets again
name it iron horse
57 Dodge i thing thats a 57
This name “DEADGE”
NAME IT “RUSTY,THE WORK HORSE OF YESTER YEAR”
This truck is Ram tuff so maybe ( TUFF TRUCK ) .
Looks like ” The SLEEPER” to me
“LIL DEAD EXPRESS”
Name The Truck SCRAPPY !
SCRAPPY
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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.
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