Help! Help! Alright, I have been looking for a truck cab, and so a guy calls me last night and says: "I hear you're looking for an old truck cab". I said yep. It is mopar I know that. He thought it was a Dodge. It looks like the late 40's early 50's Dodge cab (5 window and split windshield). The thing that is throwing me off is the Dash. It has an emblem towards the passenger side that is a raised star (hope you can picture it, like the center of the star is pulled out from the rest of it). I don't see that star in any of the photos of Dodge dashes I havelooked through tonight. Anybody got a clue. I was wondering if maybe some other mopar (Desoto, chrysler, plymouth, ?). I need to go back and take some pics, but the thing is literally buried in weeds. I was a little scared walking up to it quite frankly, of what might jump out from it.
that type of emblem sounds like the grille emblem for 6 cylinder ford pickups 55 ish, was it a add on?.. post pics if ya can, guys will id it in a heartbeat...
SOUNDS LIKE AN OLD CUSTOM ADD ON OF SORTS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A STAR ON ANY MOPAR PRODUCT.......... SOME GUY 40 YEARS AGO PROLLY THOUGHT IT LOOKED COOL... SO HE PUT IT ON HIS DASH
Yeah sorry about no pics tonight. Ah crap, I had my stupid PocketPC phone with camera and video recorder right there with me! What the good is all this technology crap if we, er uh, I, am not going to use it!? Geese, I'm such a freakin' idiot. Well, I need to go back tomorrow night hopefully to look it over one more time. I do know it is a late 40's/ early 50's mopar truck. I can tell that much from what is left of the front end and the windhield and rear window design. Guy wants it out of his field for $150. That is whatever is left and salvageable. Been there for awhile. The cab and bed looked pretty fair, at least what I could see of them through the LARGE weeds. I mainly wanted the cab and bed. It looked to have some sort of flathead motor in it. I am guessing a 6. Anyone know mopar? Oh, get this, he has some old 4 door chevy buried in the weeds next to it. Really buried! The guy is probably 60's and seems pretty car saavy. He says to me, "that pile of weeds there has a v8 with the double hump heads." I 'm like, dude, how bout a 2fer? I am going to work on that one. He also has probably half a dozen 60's chevy trucks at his house he showed me. They are also for sale. Don't know how much. But I know he has at least 4 that are 62-64's. 2 stepsides, and 2 stylesides (did Chevy call there "regular" beds stylesides?). If anyone is interested, let me know, and I will tell you how to contact the guy... but not before I get the camel hump chevy! As far as the mystery star, I think it probably is just an add on.
The only thing I could think of that maybe had a star could have been on a Power Wagon? The late 40's I think '48 was the first year for the Dodge trucks to have 3 & 5 window configurations, mostly the nose's changed up to '53, the dashe's were pretty much the same with little differences. '54-early '55 Dodge trucks had 3 & 5 windows too, but the windshield was a single piece, and corner windows were alot taller, and slightly wider. mid'55-'56 trucks had wrap around windshields with wraparound rear glass (like on the '56 F-100's). Also does the truck have "job-rated" on the sides of the front fenders, a "V8", a ram badge, or a long extended ram ornament on the nose of the hood? This can pin point it more closer to the year truck. David
Dodge Brothers trucks used the 5 pointed Star of David on the Radiator Shell until 1934 or so (in cloissone no less) I don't recall one on the dash but... could be. Picture please.
I searched the internet last night and came up empty except I could see half of what might have been a start on the horn button of a 50's Fargo in Australia. Fargos were not only Canadian, but also Mexico, Australia, and probably more. Fargos used an earth globe as a symbol.
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