Where can I find some good pictures of a 1933 Plymouth Truck? A friend of mine had 1, but I never got to see it together.
Do a google search (1933 plymouth truck) and click on images which is on the left side of the top line. It will open pages that has some of pictures of what your are looking for amount other things.
I'm not an expert on Plymouth trucks, and I may prove that right now...but I think I remember that Plymouth's first commercial vehicle was produced in '28, then again for '29 and '30, but discontinued for '31 thru '35, then resumed in '36. So that might be the reason you came up with 0 in your search for a '33 Plymouth truck. '33 Dodge truck, yes. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
Found this. Read the blue text. Plymouth commercial vehicles by Jim Benjaminson. Copyrighted by the Plymouth Bulletin. Reprinted by permission. Any typographical errors are our own! Thanks to Mike Sealey for catching some, and for noting that the PT in originally stood for Plymouth Truck. Now that Chrysler belongs to a company which is infatuated with commercial vehicles, it seemed like an ideal time to cover the history of Plymouth commercial trucks and cars.] Plymouth's first venture into the field of commercial vehicles took place shortly after Plymouth itself was born in mid-year 1928. With the start of the Chrysler Corporation in 1924 from the battered shambles of the Maxwell-Chalmers en***y Walter Chrysler had formulated a master plan to establish himself as a major U.S. automobile manufacturer. To achieve this goal his plans Included a high priced car (the Chrysler), a low priced car, the Plymouth), a medium priced car (the DeSoto) as well as a luxury car (the Imperial); also included in the plan was a line of commercial cars which became the Fargo. Chrysler, however, soon found himself with a duplication of product lines when he purchased the automotive plum of Dodge Brothers. The Dodge Brothers firm had become the property of the banking firm of Dillon, Reed & Company following the untimely deaths of John and Horace Dodge in 1920. Dillon had attempted to sell the automotive concern before but previous attempts by others to purchase the facilities had fallen away. Chrysler's purchase of the huge Dodge complex was much akin to the canary swallowing the cat - Chrysler was little over 4 years old and here it was buying lock stock & barrel - the complete Dodge holdings. Not only did he gain production plants but much needed forging and stamping facilities as well. Chrysler himself would remark in later years that had it not been for the Dodge purchase there might never have been a Plymouth at all. The Dodge Brothers had been in the commercial field since 1917 and had absorbed the Graham Brothers line as well shortly before the Chrysler purchase. Chrysler's master plan to enter all fields of manufacture had already been put into motion before the Dodge purchase and the Fargo was well on its way into production. The Corporation would soon find itself with internal compe***ion as well as stiff compe***ion from other manufacturers. For 1928 the 4 year old Chrysler Corporation introduced the DeSoto in May, followed by the Plymouth in June September saw the debut of the Fargo. It is uncertain where the Fargo name was chosen from. Some claim it was in honor of the famed Old West stage Lines of Wells-Fargo & Company; others claim the name was suggested by E. Fields, a Chrysler vice-president who had started his career by selling farm machinery in Fargo, North Dakota. Regardless the Fargo was a commercial version of the Plymouth p***enger The Fargo was available in two lines, the small half ton version called the Packet was built on the 109" wheelbase Plymouth ch***is and was powered by a "Q" series 4 cylinder engine. The price was $795, Beginning in March of 1929 the Packet would be powered by a 6 -cylinder DeSoto engine. Following a practice of robbing pieces from all the Corporation lines the Plymouth, DeSoto and even Chrysler provided both mechanical and sheet metal parts for the Fargo. A three quarter ton version called the Clipper was also built. This was a 112 3/4" wheelbase ch***is powered by a Chrysler '65' engine. In June of 1929 a one ton version called the Freighter became available. This, too, was powered by a DeSoto 6. The Corporation soon found that internal compe***ion from Dodge and the poor economic conditions brought on by the Great Depression had severely hampered the market for the Fargo line and Clipper production ceased in March of 1930. The Freighter was discontinued in October and the Packet lasted until November. Production had been at the Detroit plant with the exception of 38 Packets ***embled In the Windsor, Ontario plant. A little over 9,600 Fargos had been built with the Freighter accounting for over 50 percent of the production total. Following the demise of the Fargo and the absorption of Graham Brothers into Dodge Brothers Truck the Dodge became the corporation's only commercial vehicle. Why then in 1937 did Plymouth re-enter the field. Plymouth enjoyed a unique sales strategy. Early in 1930 Chrysler decided to offer the Plymouth line to all of his dealers--any Dodge, Chrysler or DeSoto dealer could now sell the new Plymouth. The new low priced kid on the block was now available through over 7,000 dealers, a factor which no doubt helped contribute so greatly to the new cars astonishing sales record from a new make in 1928 to the 3rd largest selling car in the U.S. by 1931. (This strategy probably backfired in later years. Although Plymouth was the corporations bread and ****er line it always played second fiddle in the showrooms. Why sell a low profit, low priced car when you could convince the customer to buy a higher priced, higher profit car sitting right alongside it on the showroom floor?). The answer why Plymouth re-entered the commercial car field in 1937 lies in the marketing structure already explained. A dealer selling the Dodge-Plymouth lines had a commercial vehicle to sell prospective customers. But a dealer selling either the DeSoto-Plymouth or Chrysler-Plymouth combination did not have a commercial vehicle for those customers. With nothing to offer those dealers were losing sales, if Plymouth were to re-enter the market than all the corporation dealers would be sitting on the same level, it is doubtful if the Dodge. Plymouth combination dealers ever really pushed the secondary Plymouth line however) <SCRIPT src="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/test_domain.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/render_ads.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);</SCRIPT><SCRIPT>google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);</SCRIPT>
might be the answer your looking for? http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17471 you can make one by getting a dodge truck cab and grafting on 33 Plymouth car parts there is a pics of this someplace on the net, I think I've seen it. o here http://www.carnut.com/cgi-bin/04/image.pl?/show/04/okc/nat702.jpg wait this is a dodge, change the front fenders and grille on this and you good to go.
Thanks for the good info. I'm still unclear about weather or not there were Plymouth trucks in '33. I remember Stoney having a 33 Plymouth sedan, and this truck was in his rafters, then after he died the truck was bought and sold a few times. I swear I think he said it was a 33.........
No "true" factory Plymouth trucks were built in 1933. I have seen conversions from cars and "clones" built from Dodge's, but there was nothing from the factory. 1937 was the first year back for Plymouth trucks, although I've heard lots of discussion about whether there were some made in '36. The end result of most of that talk is that there were Plymouth trucks built in '36 starting in November, but they were model year 1937, even if some were registered as '36's. Registration wasn't nearly as stringent as it is today, I've seen quite a few trucks especially that were registered either a year ahead or behind their model year, depending on when they actually sold. Regardless of that, if its a '33 then its not a Plymouth truck, and if it is a Plymouth truck its not a '33. Do you have any pictures of it?
Naw, I don't have any pix of it. I may have found it again, so I'll be sure to take some with my phone when I go by there this week. Maybe my mammory......uhm...memory isn't what I remember it to be. That's a sharp Black truck there! Any more pix?
The red 1934 Plymouth truck on carnut was built by a friend of mine in St. Louis. He used 1934 Plymouth car front sheet metal on a Dodge cab.
That's a sharp truck. That must be what Stoney did.....I'm trying to learn more about it from my buddy. We need to sit down and discuss it over a brewskie or many.....
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