My Dad had a '65 basic Dodge delivery van. The engine was a slant 6. It had two bucket seats. He had a furniture store in Delray Beach, FL. We delivered a lot of furniture in that van. I learned how to take advantage of every square inch, loading bedroom suites, etc.
I want to throw this out there. The Dodge A100 was not the first COE light truck you made it out to be. That was either the Jeep Foward Control that also came with 4x4 capability and utility. But also the Corvair Greenbriar Van/Bus or Rampside and reg box truck. That was also rear engine air cooled for lower net weight and great weight distribution for bad snowy conditions and rain, the Dodge A100 and Ford E100 was sorely lacking in, plus had fully independent suspension that offered a much better ride and handling! Plus a robust weight capacity, but in fairness only offered up to 110 hp, but with 4 speeds and 3:98 posi trac. The one big advantage was in hot weather, where the Dodge and Ford were like driving an oven with the hot engine right between the passengers, that only got worse as time wore on and the dog houses grew open seems. But that made winters a bit more comfortable than the Corvair. Then finally a rare American pickup not mentioned here but was very rare. The 1976-1980 Scout II TERRA truck. That was a Scout II with 18” added between the wheels, exactly between the front seat track and rear axle. Offering a 6’6” bed that was one piece with the rest of the truck, built on a fully boxed robust chassis that offered 2,000 lb load and 7,000 lbs towing with the right equipment. There were two different 4x4 systems, a traditional 2 speed transfer with manual locking front hubs, or single speed on demand transfer with automatic locking hubs, or just 4x2. With a choice of 192ci 4cyl, 304ci V8, 345ci V8, or Nissan straight six diesel, NA or Turbo. With either 3, 4 speed manual or 3 speed 727 Torque Flite automatic. With removable fiberglass cab roof, or convertible cab top. I bought one new in 78, loaded with everything but AC, or fancy radio for just under $10k.
The Greenbriar, being rear engined, was a forward-control van or pickup, but it wasn't a COE. As forward-control vans and pickups go, they were all trumped by the VW T2.
@@CaptHollister have you ever driven all mentioned? I say the Rampside was the quietest, most powerful especially compared with even a 40 hp, or later 60 hp VW! Just as good or better in snow and off roads.
Rarer and certainly forgotten is the Mercury Econoline. Yes, I said Mercury, not Ford. It was built and sold in Canada and good luck finding one. One recent model which is likely unknown outside the few markets where it was available, and nonetheless failed to sell, is the Mercedes X-Class based on a Nissan, of all things.
When I was stationed in Pensacola, FL waiting for my "A" school I drove one of the Dodge A100s and 4 door Dodge Trucks to pick up aircraft repair parts from the main warehouses to be delivered out to the hangars. It was my job every morning to transport people from the barracks out to the hangar with the 4 door Dodge Truck. That was in 1966.
The Plymouth Arrow was called the Mitsubishi Triton in Australia...yes the 2.0 and 2.6 Astron engine here too. They evolved into 4WD and still called Triton.
My uncle has one of the A100. He got it as a shell with no wheels, motor, transmission, axle, nothing. It had a ton of floor rust from sitting on rhe ground behind a barn in the woods fod years. He set it on top of a Corvette chasis with the full suspension, brakes, transmission torque tube, trans, engine and all. The rusty floor was removed and a new one made so that the body sat about 5 to 7 inches off the ground and was as arrow as possible for wind to pass under it smoothly. The front grill, headlight rings and other chrome was gone and replaced by custom molded carbon fiber. The interior was titanium and carbon with a 13" grant racing steering wheel, B & M T handle power shifter on the 6 speed transmission. Custom molded dash with Greddy digital guages, tablet mounted in dash angled to the right hand side driver controling preprogramed engine tunes for fuel economy, drag, highway, daily, or track. It held fat Proxis Racing 18x255/45 rear and 16x235/35 front, the bed was usable to haul things and the truck was daily driven not a trailer queen. He races her at the NHRA strips of KY, TN, NC, SC, AL, SC, LA and MO winning many show and go 1st place tropies. The truck was destroyed by a drunk driver side swipping it at an intersection. Luckily my uncle had updated it with modern airbags in the piller, wheel, dash and door roof line to save driver and passenger. His car work was on a whole different level whitch is why as a body mechanic and paint man he made $65hr back in 1996.
I noticed that too, but I figured it was a matter of having a different model available than what the narrative was discussing. I could be wrong though.
I owned a 1968 Dodge A108 LWB van, with a slant 6 back in 1970 ... upgraded it to a 318 in 1975, and stupidly sold it in 1976. I had the interior as a home away from home, and that 318 made it move. Currently I have a 1966 Dodge A100 pickup ... custom wheels custom paint, and a fabricator is installing a 360 magnum motor in it for me (as it has to be installed through the bottom) ... with a 90" wheel base ... and about 300hp ... it should almost fly. Planning on doing a bucket list and retracing Rt 66 in it starting in spring 2025
The VW single cab and double cab pickups were 5 years ahead of that A100 and it's an obvious copy of the form and function of the VW design. It didn't challenge the standard pickup design we know. Dodge Ford and Chevy all came out with copy cat designs because they were see losing market share to the VWs. Thus the chicken tax was created in response to this threat from foreign manufacturers.
Ford, Chevy, and Mopar all made those van cab pickups back in the day, but how about pickup cab vans? They used to make panel trucks, and I don't know why they stopped, but I mean a van with a pickup cab, so you aren't sitting on the engine or the front axle. A nice big hood out in front of you for safety, like a square body Chevy, but a van in the back.
In 1978 a VW motorhome went through the auction. Dark blue, the very earliest model. Completely original, mint condition, even the original curtains! The auctioneer allowed a reserve price to be put on it: the auction-house policy was ten year old max for a reserve. But they made an exception. It fetched £500. The price of a brand new small motorcycle. If it was still available in the same, nearly new, 12k miles condition, the man who is a VW nut who works near to my unit reckons it would easily go for £100k. I thought the buyer was mad paying £600. To my teenage mind, it looked very old fashioned and undesirable. My dad in a mad moment of madness bought a 1966 Sunbeam Rapier, £300. The Rapier would today fetch around £4k...
A neighbour on Crestwood Road in Thornhill, ON (Toronto) has a white and yellow Corvair pickup that he drives regularly and a guy in the house behind him on Pinewood Drive has a ‘65 or ‘66 white Corvair coupe.
I have always really liked the 60s design of Those Dodge vans & trucks! I actually have a model kit of a tilt cab Dodge Truck that has the aesthetic of Dodge's vans of the day! Dodge, Chevy and Ford all had these vans with the Engine Bay inside of the vehicle. It appeard as a big center between the front seats!
The Dodge D-100 pick-up was a latecomer to the party. Ford was making Econoline pick-ups from 1961 and there was a Chevrolet Corvair pick-up from 1962. You missed the VW Rabbit pick-up, especially the 60mpg diesel one. The late model El-Camino/Caballero barely lasted 5 years before rust finished them off. What happened to the Ford Ranchero (1957-1979)?
@@top.intel0 The Dodge D100 was an absolute piece of, well you know. Being late to the party they had virtually no fleet sales, and having the traditional Dodge quality no one, with half a wit, had much use for them.
Had a 61 econu p up ,put 200ci orig 140 coil over shocks on front axle,J78 Firestone radials foil insulated motor box smooth ride.2bags of seemennt on rear wheel wells for snow driving, 14" chrome mustang GT rims ,pop up sun roof for air
This "mechanical marvel" was just the same as every other flathead inline 6 lump made in the same period, no OHV's, no special castings just a big stupid lump of cast-iron that's barely making 90 hp. Yeah it's a real marvel. My old Rambler American had the same engine...*yawn*...
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My Dad had a '65 basic Dodge delivery van. The engine was a slant 6. It had two bucket seats. He had a furniture store in Delray Beach, FL. We delivered a lot of furniture in that van. I learned how to take advantage of every square inch, loading bedroom suites, etc.
I'll bet you did... most of my vans have a full deck up top & that opens up a whole new level
I had a dodge A100 window van with a 318 V8 in 1966
Announcer had it wrong. 1966 had 273v8(I have one) and 1967 introduced 318v8.
The Diamond T stands out on this list
I want to throw this out there. The Dodge A100 was not the first COE light truck you made it out to be. That was either the Jeep Foward Control that also came with 4x4 capability and utility. But also the Corvair Greenbriar Van/Bus or Rampside and reg box truck. That was also rear engine air cooled for lower net weight and great weight distribution for bad snowy conditions and rain, the Dodge A100 and Ford E100 was sorely lacking in, plus had fully independent suspension that offered a much better ride and handling! Plus a robust weight capacity, but in fairness only offered up to 110 hp, but with 4 speeds and 3:98 posi trac. The one big advantage was in hot weather, where the Dodge and Ford were like driving an oven with the hot engine right between the passengers, that only got worse as time wore on and the dog houses grew open seems. But that made winters a bit more comfortable than the Corvair. Then finally a rare American pickup not mentioned here but was very rare. The 1976-1980 Scout II TERRA truck. That was a Scout II with 18” added between the wheels, exactly between the front seat track and rear axle. Offering a 6’6” bed that was one piece with the rest of the truck, built on a fully boxed robust chassis that offered 2,000 lb load and 7,000 lbs towing with the right equipment. There were two different 4x4 systems, a traditional 2 speed transfer with manual locking front hubs, or single speed on demand transfer with automatic locking hubs, or just 4x2. With a choice of 192ci 4cyl, 304ci V8, 345ci V8, or Nissan straight six diesel, NA or Turbo. With either 3, 4 speed manual or 3 speed 727 Torque Flite automatic. With removable fiberglass cab roof, or convertible cab top. I bought one new in 78, loaded with everything but AC, or fancy radio for just under $10k.
The Greenbriar, being rear engined, was a forward-control van or pickup, but it wasn't a COE. As forward-control vans and pickups go, they were all trumped by the VW T2.
@@CaptHollister have you ever driven all mentioned? I say the Rampside was the quietest, most powerful especially compared with even a 40 hp, or later 60 hp VW! Just as good or better in snow and off roads.
Bill Mavericks Little Red Wagon
Mike and Larry Alexander design a radical custom Dodge Deora ( A-100 )
International Harvester actually used the Chrysler Torque Flite A-727 in its light-duty trucks???
Rarer and certainly forgotten is the Mercury Econoline. Yes, I said Mercury, not Ford. It was built and sold in Canada and good luck finding one.
One recent model which is likely unknown outside the few markets where it was available, and nonetheless failed to sell, is the Mercedes X-Class based on a Nissan, of all things.
My Dad owned a 65 and it had a the 273 with the 3 speed on the colum....They got their years worng!
I'd like to have one of the Dodge A-100 trucks they are cool little trucks
When I was stationed in Pensacola, FL waiting for my "A" school I drove one of the Dodge A100s and 4 door Dodge Trucks to pick up aircraft repair parts from the main warehouses to be delivered out to the hangars. It was my job every morning to transport people from the barracks out to the hangar with the 4 door Dodge Truck. That was in 1966.
The Plymouth Arrow was called the Mitsubishi Triton in Australia...yes the 2.0 and 2.6 Astron engine here too. They evolved into 4WD and still called Triton.
nice video 👍👍
My uncle has one of the A100. He got it as a shell with no wheels, motor, transmission, axle, nothing. It had a ton of floor rust from sitting on rhe ground behind a barn in the woods fod years.
He set it on top of a Corvette chasis with the full suspension, brakes, transmission torque tube, trans, engine and all. The rusty floor was removed and a new one made so that the body sat about 5 to 7 inches off the ground and was as arrow as possible for wind to pass under it smoothly. The front grill, headlight rings and other chrome was gone and replaced by custom molded carbon fiber. The interior was titanium and carbon with a 13" grant racing steering wheel, B & M T handle power shifter on the 6 speed transmission. Custom molded dash with Greddy digital guages, tablet mounted in dash angled to the right hand side driver controling preprogramed engine tunes for fuel economy, drag, highway, daily, or track. It held fat Proxis Racing 18x255/45 rear and 16x235/35 front, the bed was usable to haul things and the truck was daily driven not a trailer queen. He races her at the NHRA strips of KY, TN, NC, SC, AL, SC, LA and MO winning many show and go 1st place tropies.
The truck was destroyed by a drunk driver side swipping it at an intersection. Luckily my uncle had updated it with modern airbags in the piller, wheel, dash and door roof line to save driver and passenger.
His car work was on a whole different level whitch is why as a body mechanic and paint man he made $65hr back in 1996.
"Column mounted shifter", meantime showing an interior shot with a floor shifter..
Twice
this is another clickbait waste of your time.
I'd take ANY of these over the oversized, and over-technologied behemoths we're stuck with now.
"vinyl bench seats" *shows a pair of vinyl buckets* "4-speed manual transmission" *shows a 5-speed shifter*
I noticed that too, but I figured it was a matter of having a different model available than what the narrative was discussing. I could be wrong though.
At one point he was talking about a column shifter while showing a floor shifter too lol
I had a '69 A-100 "Telephone Company" van back in the van daze of the 70's. I miss looking over the steering wheel at the road rushing by.😁👍
The way the over the wheel design handles is the coolest handling forward or backward liability driver safety is compromised in forward crashes
I owned a 1968 Dodge A108 LWB van, with a slant 6 back in 1970 ... upgraded it to a 318 in 1975, and stupidly sold it in 1976. I had the interior as a home away from home, and that 318 made it move. Currently I have a 1966 Dodge A100 pickup ... custom wheels custom paint, and a fabricator is installing a 360 magnum motor in it for me (as it has to be installed through the bottom) ... with a 90" wheel base ... and about 300hp ... it should almost fly. Planning on doing a bucket list and retracing Rt 66 in it starting in spring 2025
I worked for my father in the body shop at lithia Dodge in Medford Oregon where they had a 426 Hemi powered A100 for a delivery vehicle.
That little Austin truck is awesome I'm sure I'd never find one here in the states that I could afford
The VW single cab and double cab pickups were 5 years ahead of that A100 and it's an obvious copy of the form and function of the VW design. It didn't challenge the standard pickup design we know. Dodge Ford and Chevy all came out with copy cat designs because they were see losing market share to the VWs. Thus the chicken tax was created in response to this threat from foreign manufacturers.
Ford, Chevy, and Mopar all made those van cab pickups back in the day, but how about pickup cab vans? They used to make panel trucks, and I don't know why they stopped, but I mean a van with a pickup cab, so you aren't sitting on the engine or the front axle. A nice big hood out in front of you for safety, like a square body Chevy, but a van in the back.
I'm wondering why there was no mention of the Corvair Rampside...
In 1978 a VW motorhome went through the auction. Dark blue, the very earliest model. Completely original, mint condition, even the original curtains!
The auctioneer allowed a reserve price to be put on it: the auction-house policy was ten year old max for a reserve. But they made an exception. It fetched £500. The price of a brand new small motorcycle. If it was still available in the same, nearly new, 12k miles condition, the man who is a VW nut who works near to my unit reckons it would easily go for £100k. I thought the buyer was mad paying £600. To my teenage mind, it looked very old fashioned and undesirable. My dad in a mad moment of madness bought a 1966 Sunbeam Rapier, £300. The Rapier would today fetch around £4k...
It's good to have the engineering info!
A neighbour on Crestwood Road in Thornhill, ON (Toronto) has a white and yellow Corvair pickup that he drives regularly and a guy in the house behind him on Pinewood Drive has a ‘65 or ‘66 white Corvair coupe.
I have always really liked the 60s design of Those Dodge vans & trucks! I actually have a model kit of a tilt cab Dodge Truck that has the aesthetic of Dodge's vans of the day! Dodge, Chevy and Ford all had these vans with the Engine Bay inside of the vehicle. It appeard as a big center between the front seats!
Love that Dodge
I have a 1966 Dodge A-100 van, very fun van to drive , but the short wheelbase make it a bumpy ride if going too fast on speed bump.
A couple of the vans shown (70s show, cars) were Volkswagens.
yes.
The Dodge D-100 pick-up was a latecomer to the party. Ford was making Econoline pick-ups from 1961 and there was a Chevrolet Corvair pick-up from 1962. You missed the VW Rabbit pick-up, especially the 60mpg diesel one. The late model El-Camino/Caballero barely lasted 5 years before rust finished them off. What happened to the Ford Ranchero (1957-1979)?
Thanks for sharing them Sir. Can't add everything in one video. I will add them in later episodes of this topic.
@@top.intel0 The Dodge D100 was an absolute piece of, well you know. Being late to the party they had virtually no fleet sales, and having the traditional Dodge quality no one, with half a wit, had much use for them.
The Ford Ranchero was discontinued after 1979 unfortunately
Had a 61 econu p up ,put 200ci orig 140 coil over shocks on front axle,J78 Firestone radials foil insulated motor box smooth ride.2bags of seemennt on rear wheel wells for snow driving, 14" chrome mustang GT rims ,pop up sun roof for air
You left out the Ranchero series, Corvair series, Mercury truck, first generation Chevy C10 & GMC C1000 and G-series GM shorty vans. Also Ausie utes.
You didn't include a Mack Jr. Yes, Mack trucks made a pickup back in the 30s and 40s.
What about the Ford first gen Falcon/Econoline pickups? They preceded the Dodge A100.
Why do these lists always include pics of the wrong vehicle? ALWAYS!
Uncle howard had a one hundred...he was as unique as that ride is badazzz
Diamond T was really big in Mexico, though I think under a different name.
I had a 1965 Dodge A100 van with a 318 v8 factory installed automatic stick was on the dash. So I'm going to say your off on your 67 info about the v8
Didn’t the econoline come out before the dodge?
"Column" mounted shifter: I do not think this word means what you think it means
"Introducing their own compact trucks"...meanwhile showing images of full size trucks!
It's not 2O1 (two OH one), it's 201 (two zero one).
The Arrow/D-50 has a 6 foot 6 inch (inside measurement) bed. How can that be considered a short bed?
Used to be anything under 8 foot was a short bed.
I guess this is what click bait is all about ,you put mistakes in and people respond then it gains more hits or clicks.
1973 Toyota Hi-Lux
Just mute and look at the pics, ffs
This "mechanical marvel" was just the same as every other flathead inline 6 lump made in the same period, no OHV's, no special castings just a big stupid lump of cast-iron that's barely making 90 hp. Yeah it's a real marvel. My old Rambler American had the same engine...*yawn*...
21:48 DAF Truck in America? WTFhahaahahahha
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