Dodge D100 Shop Truck

[Charley Davidson]

This is what I'm working on, just figured out my new camera so I can post pics.

It's a 64 Dodge D100, when I got it it didn't have a carb, had a stepside bed full of trash and dry rotted tires.

so far I removed the bed and started on a flat bed but I'm gonna shorten that and make it telescope. I just made a grill for it and a back window screen.

I want to lower it as much as possible, chop the top, suicide the doors and put taller tires with white walls on it

 

[Charley Davidson]

Sorry it's not very exciting

 

[Motorhead]

These old trucks are so ugly, they're cute!

I like your decision to make it a flat bed. I would love to own an early 60's flat bed truck and put a small diesel in it, a 4bt or something of that nature.

Keep up the good work! [

 

[bob w]

Sorry, Charlie. I was paying more attention to the motor home in the background. Looks like you really do live in a bus.

Dodge trucks like yours do not exist up here. They have all returned to nature. Good luck on your build. It should be a neat machine.

 

[Charley Davidson]

Sorry, Charlie. I was paying more attention to the motor home in the background. Looks like you really do live in a bus.

Dodge trucks like yours do not exist up here. They have all returned to nature. Good luck on your build. It should be a neat machine.

Yep I do, They hardly exist anywhere, saw a 67 in mint condition going down the road a few days ago & got a call from my bird dog at the scrap yard a 67 came in but was crushed before I could get there

These old trucks are so ugly, they're cute!

I like your decision to make it a flat bed. I would love to own an early 60's flat bed truck and put a small diesel in it, a 4bt or something of that nature.

Keep up the good work! [

Took a while to fall in love with this one, but after looking at some on the sweptline forum it started growing on me. I am basically in this truck for free.

 

[earthman]

What motor is in it? If it's the six i'll be more interested

 

[Charley Davidson]

She's a slant six, smokes, burns & leaks oil but tough as nails. 3 speed on the column but I have a floor shifter kit for it.

 

[Charley Davidson]

Will the taller rims off of new Dodge trucks work on my truck? The spare tire rims that I see every body using. If so would they look good on my truck? Rear only or front & rear?

 

[jawman]

good start. it might be ugly, but if everyone scraps them nobody will know how ugly they are.. good start to what looks like it could turn out to be sweet rig. I got a 73 D150 that has a 400 BB and i just dont want to scrap it. I'm thinking solid axle.

 

[clamor]

She's a slant six, smokes, burns & leaks oil but tough as nails. 3 speed on the column but I have a floor shifter kit for it.

Awww man, I love 3 on the tree.

I dunno why everyone's calling it ugly. I like it.
(birds of a feather, maybe?)

-Chaz

 

[Sam_Fear]

I'm waiting to see the sliding bed come together....[P

 

[jawman]

I said they were ugly, but didn't say anything about me not liking them. most of the ones i have seen done up a little look killer. any progress?

 

[Charley Davidson]

Progress on this will be kinda slow for a while due to money & the fact it is my every day driver right now.

But minor stuff will be done continuously plus any ideas/advice will help

 

[FlatbedAndy]

Progress on this will be kinda slow for a while due to money & the fact it is my every day driver right now.

But minor stuff will be done continuously plus any ideas/advice will help

Some obvious stuff like tweak the bumper straight, off with the fog lights, I thought maybe strip off the crome from the sides, but maybe be better to replace the missin' ones....if you can find .[dr

 

[Tim...Ok]

I like it alot..I found a yellow (brush painted!) stepside about that year,thought about buying for my youngest boy..

buddy of mine had a shiny black one,weld draglites,tubbed with a 440 in it..sweet truck

your has tons of potential

 

[Charley Davidson]

Thanks guys, Think I'm gonna do away with the bumper and replace it with something just not sure what yet, fog lights are for sure a goner, think most of the chrome will be ditched also.

I need to fix the exhaust and would like to do soething cool with that, any ideas? Or just run it straight back? I've got an old cherry bomb & a stock type muffler which one?

 

[jawman]

exhaust: you could run straight pipes out the hood or out the fender. you can do lake pipes under the cab. semi type dual stacks off the back of the cab sense it is a flatbed. could just run the exhaust out the back too. if you do that at least let it dump out right behind the fender under the door for hot roding. I would go with bomb, unless you have a nice muffler. just my thoughts. put some spark plugs on the end of the tail pipe to throw some fire.???

 

[Charley Davidson]

Slant 6 so duals are not really an option unless I build headers, I do like the spark plug flame thrower idea.

With the motor in it now smoking as bad as it does I think maybe the exhaust need to go out back as far as possible. i go to a drive thru coffee shop almost every morning and have to kill it so I don't kill the Barista , then I won't get my sugar free french vanilla brown sugar & cinnamon frappe .

 

[Sam_Fear]

.... get my sugar free french vanilla brown sugar & cinnamon frappe .

I'm not sure you should be allowed to drive that truck anymore.

Since it's a flatbed, it might look better without the trim, unless you incorporate the trim line into the bed side somehow. As for the bumper. I think the back bumper would be an improvement over the mangled mess on there now.

It's ugly, like a well executed right hook title fight.

 

[jawman]

you mentioned smell and running the exhaust to the rear. I dont know how this works with that type of truck, but ON my Suzuki Samurai if the exhaust is running the back it needs to turn out to the side of the rig at the end. If you just run it straight out the back the exhaust gets caught in that trailing wind and stays with you and gets sucked right into the cab. if you let it turn out to the side of the rig the passing wind sucks it away and you never smell anything.