Ram hood ornaments adorned every Dodge car and truck from 1932 to 1954. Today, this series is the most popular pickups with Dodge truck collectors. auto manufacturers to offer a diesel powered truck - all the more exceptional, given that Chrysler engineered and built their heavy-duty diesel engines all in-house. And lastly, Dodge was the first of the Big Three U.S.

The Job-Rated trucks also formed the basis for Dodge's first light-duty military four-wheel drives, the 1940 half-ton Dodge VC series, which in turn further developed into the world's first factory 4WD commercial pickups: the Dodge Power Wagon. They were the first to be mass-produced in the new, huge (Mound Road) Warren truck plant. Historic author on Dodge trucks, Don Bunn, noted that the 1939 to 1947 Job-Rated trucks represent a very significant segment in Dodge history. When they resumed sales post-war, they continued as the 1946 Dodge W-series. The Dodge trucks enjoyed some popularity before the war, and the last of them built in 1942, before Dodge turned to mostly military production, had progressed to the With World War II taking up most of production capacity from 1942 to 1945, the 1939 styling continued largely unchanged through 1947, as engineering and production became the main focus. Nevertheless, mechanically, the trucks were all very similar, with solid axles front and rear and leaf springs at all four corners. Six different payload classes, a wide range of bodies, and more than twenty different wheelbase-lengths were manufactured, and fitted with different sized versions of the Chrysler-sourced inline six-cylinder side-valve engines - from the half-ton TC pickup on a 116-inch wheelbase to three-ton tractor cabs. Īs a result, the 1939 to 1947 Dodge pickup / truck range was offered in a bewilderingly large number of available variants and model codes. With streamlined, Art Deco styled front sheetmetal, and introducing the concept of 'Job-Rated' truck configurations, Dodge tried to offer customers the truck that fit the job they were buying it for. Formally the T series for 1939, V series for 1940, and the W series from 1941 through 1947, the trucks became mostly known as the Dodge Job-Rated trucks. In 1939 Dodge presented a completely new designed line of pickups and trucks.

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