Here’s something a bit out of the ordinary for today’s CCOTD. It’s a Dodge L-Series truck, which obviously has the cab from the A100 van-pickup. And its load consists of some Dodge Daytonas.
It’s not delivering them to a dealer; this is a short haul rig, and the Daytonas are being dropped off at a Detroit area facility that did some finishing work on the Daytonas and Superbirds.
Seems like it would have been easier and safer to just drive the cars!
Here’s another view of this same load. The front licence plate on our left may be an Ontario plate. As the letter and number convention matches what was used in late 1968 and late 1969 for commercial vehicles. As well as the appearance of the location of the month and year above, and province name below. The Chrysler Lynch Road plant was only a few blocks away from Windsor, Ontario.
I think it’s a different load, the rearmost Daytona appears to be white or some other light color with a black stripe, in that picture all three have white stripes
I agree.
Just curious; how did you find that pic?
A Google image search using ‘Dodge Charger Daytona Car Carrier’.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dodge+charger+daytona+car+carrier&sxsrf=ALeKk02TkVJsSvB9pGJq0N0roxW7IHypGg:1596656416064&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrvYfU6ITrAhXmmHIEHYVZD-gQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1920&bih=966
This image appears colourized.
I don’t know why, but I’m a huge fan of the “upcycled” cabs on these and may other trucks of this era and beyond. Up until not very long ago, GM was still doing it with some medium-duty chassis-cabs, whose cabs were enhanced versions of the Express/Savanna.
I presume it was a rainy day, the effect almost gives the cars barn find looks complete with with patina, especially the second car, the lack of installed trim rings adds to it.
There was a company named Creative Industries of Detroit that I believe did the finishing work on the Charger Daytona and Road Runner Superbird. These cars appear to be finished and are possibly leaving Creative. Naturally they could only be truck shipped on the top deck. Creative was a very interesting company, and there is supposed to be a good book out about them.
Bob, I have the book and found it to be an interesting read as I knew nothing abut them before. Highly recommend it.
Thanks, I will read it.
Why “naturally” the top deck only?
Do they seem too tall for the belly?
The towering rear spoilers. At first glance the cars on this carrier appear to be missing their spoilers, but on close examination they are there.
Always wondered what was going thru the designers brain when they designed the front end of the Dodge truck/van. We got some left over aluminum pie plate hub caps, can we use them as trim around the headlights?
It was an Exner thing, I guess. The A100 came out in 1964, the L series medium trucks in 1966, I think. I wonder what if any influence Exner had on the design of those trucks. They do seem to be somewhat ‘Exneress’.
“Gentleman of Styling, obviously the industry is headed for dual headlamps. Then what, triples? With this new front let’s come up with something that’ll be ready for anything.”
Look at the headlight trim of the Chrysler Turbine cars. There’s a family resemblance.
Driving that truck would have seemed really strange to someone who’d previously driven an A-series van or pickup.
Some were a lot heavier than this one.
More like in the 800-900 class.
Municipalities liked ’em.
Now that I think about it, I can’t readily recall one that didn’t start out as either Chrysler or government owned.
Ramps out, first car ready to load…
was that the inspiration for the infamous Charger jump?
LOL
Cast spoke wheels. 10.00 x 20 tires. A-Van cab. What a pisser!
With big round tail lights supposedly representing the afterburner of a jet engine perhaps the head light pie plates were supposed to be the turbine intakes? Maybe they were planning on going from a 7″ seal beam to a 12″ seal beam?