posted by Corey Behrens
Someone in Castricum, The Netherlands is California Dreamin’. And why not, especially in this superb old D100. The contrast between it and the typical Dutch houses behind it is a bit stark; not exactly a California beach bungalow.
The lettering on the door look vintage, but there’s little doubt in my mind that’s recent and made to look old. The reality is that the verbiage doesn’t quite make sense, created by a non-native English speaker. It really looks like something one might expect to see in Japan.
As to the truck’s provenance, the former California plate in the bed is an obvious tip off, as is the lack of rust.
A bumper sticker with sentiments that are easily shared.
I’ve got a soft spot for this generation of Dodges. I prefer the earlier grille and quad lights, but I’m good with these too.
Now that’s a T-handle shifter of a slightly different sort, for the TF automatic. Most likely that’s teamed up with a 318 V8, but it could be a slant six.
The twin exhausts rather confirm my guess.
Dodge’s headlight extenders, pie plates, or whatever they’re called, were quite the fad with them for some years. The turn signal lights are as basic as they get. Saved a few pennies there.
Classic Mexican blanket seat cover too. It’s so funny how the Scandinavian countries know more about classic American car culture than Americans do. I prefer the pie plate Dodge look myself, they should have stuck with that. ’64 Dodge Polara front end is my favorite.
4,4 liter 8 cylinder running on LPG with 114 KW according to the registration.
The LPG tank is probably in the wooden box.
Oh, and the Netherlands are not Scandinavian.
sorry, my brush painted a little broadly this a.m.! I did know that but my mind said Sweden when I posted.
And this is how it looked, right after its arrival in NL, summer of 2008. Originally it had a 225 slant six and 3-speed manual.
Now a 4,400 cc V8, that’s somewhere around 269 cubic inch. What might that be?
More here: https://www.mopar.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3997
Early 273 LA engine?
Good call! 4,400 cc must be some round, easy number for registration purposes anyway.
Great find and collection of pictures, Corey! Castricum is situated near the North Sea coast, so the current owner (since July 7, 2021) might be a surfer after all.
As for the door graphics… pretty sure MS Comic Sans wasn’t around in ’67. 🙂
Comic Sans was developed by Microsoft in 1994. As a visual communication designer (and I do speak for many of others), I absolutely hate Comic Sans!
They are the design equivalent of fingernails scratching across the blackboard…
Always liked these old Dodges. The pie plate headlight trims remind me of 1930’s classic cars that were converted to sealed beam headlights after 1940. You see those conversions on some episodes of “The Untouchables”, even though they aren’t period correct.
For the ultimate mashup, it needs decals saying “SUPEREXPORT” preferably italicized, along with the words “dodgeball,” “pie-plate,” and “fine wood” all thrown in a choppy, computer generated suggestion to go out and have fun.
I like these Dodges more every day. I will cast my vote for the pie-plate eyes over the “four eyes” prior version. But I will admit that these trucks always look really surprised. 🙂
I like the hood with the fake louvers, which actually made it to 1968. Funny how that hood didn’t match the grille after 1965 when the dual headlamps went away. No matter, the rest of the styling was so eclectic the hood design worked nonetheless.
I used to own one, same color, sweptline like that one. That is an early 67. the late 67s had a full width rear window. The smaller window is more desireable. It had a 318 cid engine with 4 speed trany and 2 bbl carb. 1st gear was granny gear. About 10 mpg was normal. Sold it and bought a 79 Lil Red Express.
I used to own one, same color, sweptline like that one. That is an early 67. the late 67s had a full width rear window. The smaller window is more desireable. It had a 318 cid engine with 4 speed trany and 2 bbl carb. 1st gear was granny gear. About 10 mpg was normal. Sold it and bought a 79 Lil Red Express.
The 273 was considered a 4.5L and that is most likely what it had. Nice look of a nice vintage Mopar. Mopar or No Car (er…truck)
Nice ol Dodge I know a guy who dies that aged signwriting and traditional pin striping its quite a popular trend.
Love these trucks. Once in awhile, I’ll still see one still going and looking at the one featured, I’m reminded how much bench seats are guaranteed to induce memorable amounts of back pain even on a short trip. Make mine an LA318 and a Torqueflite. IIRC, there was a CC on trucks like these where you could “sport” them up a bit and get bucket seats. If I were buying one of these new, I’d be looking for those seats. If I were getting one used, I’d be wondering if 2008 Ram 1500 seats could be made to fit. My fiancee had one and it had the best seats of any Mopar I’d ever owned or driven. The last time I saw a D100, someone had swapped in buckets from a 70’s B or maybe E body. My lower back could understand why.
I have my late dad’s ’89 Dakota he got in the mid 90’s and the bench seat was the first thing he replaced in the interior. Found an ’89 Dynasty with the same colour interior and retrofitted the 50/50 seats into the Dakota. Changed the whole driving experience for the better and he enjoyed the truck a lot more from that point on. Any time I’m driving the Dakota now, I still thank him for the seats.
I wonder if we aren’t looking at a chassis swap here?
No axle beam or springs visible, lots of frame seen below cab…
A nice old survivor or maybe Hot Rod .
-Nate
Could Dodge have tried LESS with the bodyside molding on these things? It’s just a long rectangular block of trim, looking so tacked-on and amateurish, and it doesn’t at all follow the body lines of the truck—like that dip in the metal at the rear of the bed. Were they trying to somehow make the truck look more rectilinear, like the new Fords and Chevs/GMCs of that year? If so, in my opinion, major fail. Would look so much better without that molding.