Let's see your Dodge pickups

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Bodyperson said:
My aunt had a simple old Beaumont with a 454. I l slobbered over that car when I visited her in Saskatchewan. Lots of Mopars up there too.
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Heck yeah man! I went to school with a friend who had a Beaumont with a 307. We loved that car. It was the coolest.
 
Who would of thunk it. My neighbor had a sweptline and I thought it was the uglyist thing on earth and now I want one, With a slant no less. :)
 
RustyRatRod said:
Really not much to it. I found the engine on CL advertised as a 354. Brought it home and discovered is was a heavy duty truck 331. The seller even insisted on refunding me 100 bucks, even though I told him please don't, because I was happy with the purchase.

I went through it top to bottom. Put the one year only 8.5:1 1955 pistons in it. We milled the heads only .025" which brought it up to 9.3:1. The reason is because how the chambers are made. It doesn't take much to make a BIG difference because you're removing from the ENTIRE half sphere of the chamber.

I had Oregon Cam Grinders grind a nasty small solid out of the original hydraulic. .453, 240 @ .050" ground on a 106. I wanted low lift, because the exhaust rockers are very long ans cannot take a lot of spring pressure. Me and Desktop Dyno figure about 350 or so HP and maybe a little more in torque. All that's not really important as it's going to look and sound ominous. Especially with home made zoomies. lol

That intake manifold is a pretty rare piece. Factory two one barrel intake with trans dapt one to two barrel adapters and two GM 2GC carburetors. The transmission behind it is a late 70s Dodge truck 4 speed over drive. The chassis is a 83 D150 with a Dana 70 dually rear and one ton front stuff. I have sorta neglected it, but it is fixin to come to the front when I get the Valiant tagged and start driving it.
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First glance looked like single wide tire on the rear. Needs super single tires on the back.
 
South America had Desoto trucks built in Brazil, IIRC. The only one I have seen a pic of was made like the 57-59 sweptside pickups.
 
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440/727/3.91 Sure Grip
And it’s for sale
 
Here is a pic of Grampas Fargo(fart n go). This is on my Aunt Shirley and Uncle Don's Wedding Day. I think around 72-3. Me in the blue shirt n tie.
I'll dig for a better pic of truck.
They were pretty common here back in the day. Local wrecking yard close to me had quite a few.
Bodyperson said:
How many Fargos you all seen?
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RustyRatRod said:
Heck yeah man! I went to school with a friend who had a Beaumont with a 307. We loved that car. It was the coolest.
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I like the beaumonts a lot, a good read, if you can find it
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The hardback is the one you really want because it's larger and easier to read, but it's prohibitively expensive.
Here is he one I mentioned earlier, it used I believe 56 plymouth wagon quarters as the bedside instead of the 57 Coronet like the Dodge and Fargo used.
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And I correct myself, made in Argentina, sold in Australia, UK, Spain, amd Turkey, according to Wikipedia.
And a late 50s or early 60s, I'd like to see more of that bed
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And my favorite COE, it's so ugly it's pretty. Check out the oversized 80's pentastar K car emblem. I could see Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Shrwazenegger having a knock down dragout over who would drive.
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My Mexico built 88 Ramcharger, every other Ramcharger two wheel drive I see 318 and 904 trans, and the small 8 1/4 rear end, this one is a 360 4 barrel 727, 9 1/4 rear end, equipped with sway bars front and rear. Been driving it for 6 years I believe

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i think another few months, and ill buy me a dodge plow truck
about as soon as i torch the bronco and find a good deal, ive been told around june, landscaping companies get rid of their plowtrucks and im hoping to pick on up for cheap then


340demon72 said:
Cummins camper/car trailer hauler. No winters ever, 108,000 Miles. Been to Alaska with 5th wheel camper.
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alaska doesnt count as winter?

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This was actually my first Chrysler product. I was planning on moving and I'd sold off my previous F-150 a year earlier. I had about $6K to spend and everything I was seeing was way over that or had close to 200K miles and tons of rust. This '03 showed up as a southern truck (no rust) and with only 80 some thousand miles for the right price. I gave Dodge a try and I'm glad I did.

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Oops I forgot to include a picture. Here is my junk the before pic is when i first bought it about 8 years ago.

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OMG - an non A body topic in the general discussion area...:mob: :poke:

Taken last summer while vacationing in Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg. Blue is my son, beige is me. 06/05 respectively. Both 2500 4x4 Cummins. This is the mountain overlook where my tail pipe broke off the back of the muffler.

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Here's 3 of my herd. '80 stepside when I brought it home a year or so ago; '77 is a constant work in progress, it started out as an abused orange Warlock; 4 door is my nice driver, doesn't get used too much.
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