maulhead
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wow, were you on the Sweptline forum?
This one is a ‘69 383 727 A/C power brakes and steering.
My dad had an orange ex caltrans crew cab ‘70 or so when I was little. Traded a Chevy fender for ‘71 longbed with a blown up slant in the bed. Traded that for a ‘63 with no bed and a 440. Had a lot of back fees, rusty floors, and the 440 was worn out. Also bought a rusty tan ‘68 long bed 318 auto ($300, they aren’t cheap any more) that I got running. Then I got a ‘70 shorty with no power train…put the 318 and auto in it and drove it a couple years and sold it and everything else but the ‘68 carcass…oh and the rough free ‘68 D400. My wife told me I’d regret selling it and I did! Few years ago picking a trans to get my deuce running I found this white shorty but wasn’t for sale. More recently I asked again and he had sold it, the guy hadn’t paid, and had started to take it apart…so now I got it. Gonna be more of a project than my previous ones but I’ve wanted a big block forever. Hope to pick up free 440 moho number two tomorrow.
I surfed a lot on the one of Sweptline forums years ago, never posted much. Sold most of mine word of mouth, or on another dodge forum I was a member on, and sold some eBay / Craigslist when I sold them all.
I had a '70 dude, that was pretty cool. Also had a '64 CSS, missing the original engine thou. Also had a 1970 D700 crewcab ex rail road truck, always wanted to convert it to a W500 clone, never did. I had all the parts to do it. Had so many other 61-71 at the time hard to remember them all. Most were W series trucks thou, only a few D series.
This black 1970 W100, used to belong to my uncle, special ordered truck. 383 4 spd truck, sport sport adventurer package, which included all the extra stainless trim on the outside, and bucket seats inside with a flip up counsel. It also had the heavy duty gauge cluster, including factory tach. Was repainted in the 80's cause the original paint was fading out. Only had 60k miles on it.
He bought it 1973 in Rawlins WY, from the 1st owner, my uncle taught me how to drive it when I was 13, uncle owned on a 800 acre ranch, after he taught me how to drive it he would let me take it out around the ranch, by the time I was 15 and had my permit he would let me and my sister take it to town to get supplies for him. That was so cool, and that fueled my dodge truck addiction, I bought a 1968 W200 when I was 16, by the time I was 19 I had six dodges between 1966-1970, all 4x4's.
My uncle offered to sell it to me in 2016 or 2017, was very hard to pass on it, but I did. Guy he sold it to only kept it a few years and sold it on bring a trailer site, pretty sure it brought $21k or 22k. Kinda regret not buying from my uncle.
It's a awesome truck, of all the dodges I've seen, and all the dodge guys I've talked to, I never seen another one optioned out like it!!
