I like how it’s a Dodge promo but they highlight the important work and function features and still gave credit to Ford and Chevy when they had the better feature. Nowadays they put each other down and just show you the interior and the tech features that costs more.
There's no such thing as truth in advertising any more, businesses and their customers generate their own truths. There's no reason to acknowledge the strengths of your competition when they aren't a part of the reality one has chosen to live in
I'm so sick of talk of "interiors" on today's vehicles, especially trucks...interior shouldn't matter that much on a truck,and besides, I don't consider a bunch of plastic, bucket seats and consoles, dash screens, cup holders much of an "interior" on a truck anyways...give me a thick vinyl bench seat, column shift(unless it's a 4 or 5 speed manual), and a rubber floor mat...that's all the "interior" you need in a pickup....
None could beat Ford back then, It's the world's best selling pickup today,And holds the record for being the most stolen vehicle today 2022, F-150... Dodge was better than a Chevy,Gm trucks too soft-built and wouldn't pull much of shit,318 would beat Ford 302 and Chevy 307,but that 307 was fast as hell for it's small size,I like them all though,I grew up in them,It's American 🏈🏈🏈, Tailgating....
I like 'em all, but my favorite is the Chevy..IMHO, the best pickup body style ever made..not that the others were bad...one thing I don't like about the Ford, though, is the single-wall cargo box on the upper part....
Oh yea! In 1978, I bought a new Scout II TERRA Pickup Truck, loaded Select Edition with 345/4 brl, dual exhaust, 3:51 Trac Loc, 2 speed HD Transfer, with HD 727 Automatic. In Canyon Black with gold steel off road wheels, 32” GoodYear Tracker Tires, gold stripes down the sides from marker light to marker light and white removable Cab Roof! That truck was a beast! Could tow my brothers 10,000 boat&trailer down to the bay at the beginning of summer and back in the fall, like it wasn’t there! Could haul the rated at 2,000 lbs in the bed without bottoming out on all but the biggest bumps. Great truck!
Exactly,...a major reason I don't want/don't need a modern truck...other reasons are the prices, the really thin sheetmetal(or aluminum), really high bedsides you can't reach over, complicated electronics, and(IMHO), terrible styling....
I have a 1968 F100 my dad bought it brand new in 68, still have it,got a 390 in it , came with a 360 when it was new, had about 370,000 plus miles on it. I put the 390 in it about 17 years ago, truck has now 435,000 miles on it and the old boy still runs great. I'm fixing it up for my son's twin boys. I was seventeen then and I'm just about seventy, I'm just glad the old truck can't talk I would be in some trouble.
Have to add you sound like one of them pathetic little punks with 100grand in your 4x4 with a 5grand paint job with out a scratch on it because you have to garage it if it even looks like it might rain
The Dodge truck body style started in 1961! The Ford truck body style started in 1967! The Chevrolet truck body style started in 1967 too! Yes, you are right! The Dodge was over due for a new look!
Had a ‘75 D-100 Adventurer w/slant 6 & 3 speed - loved it for 4 years and just under 100,000 trouble free miles. Now have a ‘97 Dakota I have had for 23 years and still under 100,000 miles.
Well … no. 1970s 2500$ would be in today money some $17.000$. So the truck would still be relatively cheap compared to modern trucks, but technological also quite primitive. I e.g. don't want to sit in such a thing even in a 25 mph collision. (See e.g. here: www.usinflationcalculator.com)
@@Slazlo-Brovnik your being afraid of the past and constantly bettering the modern era. Which isn't true, you just weren't around to drive the trucks back in 1970, so you think by your guesses that it doesn't work very well compared to a modern day truck. The best truck I ever had was a 1937 Hudson Terraplane Pickup, worked fine, looked fantastic and elegant, and easily started and stopped. If you drove 40 in that automobile or any other you would survive, in modern day if you drove 40 into that automobile you would be in for a hell. Modern day does their damnest to advertise today in only good light. Back then it was all the arrangements from fantastic, to bad, to worst. You will never find pictures of crashes in current times in advertisments, only a cancer patient and black family thrown in there that are smiling for no reason, oh and testing ground conditions like the artic to the desert which doesn't show anything.
@@artdecotimes2942I am afraid of the past? What should that even mean? But okay: I am 60 now and learned driving around 1975 on a then already old VW T1 flatbed from 1963. Got my Driving license 1978. So I do remember the old times, I drove the old cars. Regarding your statements about vehicle safety - those are ... sorry ... just ridiculous. Modern cars are so much safer. Just compare the number of deaths due to traffic accidents which are way lower today than in the 70ties (no matter what country) although we have much more cars and denser traffic today. If you are seriously trying to tell me that a 1937 car is safer than any modern car, then we are already done - because that's just nonsense. You can even find here on TH-cam a video with a head on offset crash test between a 2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air It shows that the driver in the much bigger Bel Air would be most likely dead or at least severely hurt, while the Chevy Malibu is way better of and had good chances to just walk away. And a 2009 Chevy Malibu is 11 years old today and not even state of the art. Here ist the link for you: th-cam.com/video/fPF4fBGNK0U/w-d-xo.html And of course advertising at no time in history showed crashed cars and always showed products in good light. It's Advertising! But what they do today is crashtests and you can find a lot of footage e.g. here on you tube. Just compare how older cars compare to todays cars.
More of the Sweptlines are being restored. They have a nitch fan base that's growing, more body patch panels are available. But trim and grilles are hard to find.
@@lclfav2 they're fantastic driving trucks. My friend had a 68 & I had 71. Both 3 speed manuals. His with coils, & mine had factory leafs in the back. There's nothing like them today. I Thumbs up your post.
@@geraldthompson4633 I am aware of the bell housing, & thermostat housing's are aluminum.... what other components were aluminum? Those components would be nice to know....
I agree with CJ Colvin . The new trucks of today are to big and overpriced . Can't get a manual shift . To much computerized technology that I don't need or use .
Yeah, I never did care for this generation of Dodge. The 1972 - 1993 Dodge trucks looked much better in my opinion. Those were the best looking trucks they produced.
I drove a 1960 6 cylinder good truck and I bought a 1967 dodge 3/4 four speed v 8 camper special very dependable truck and easy to work on it. Now all vehicles look beautiful but they're nothing but very expensive plastic .
That Dodge body style was pretty “long in the tooth” by 1970 and still had another year to go! Then came 1972 and finally a redesign - which was still being stamped out 21 years later.....😂
Yeah. Technically the D series began in '61 and got a new body and IFS in '72, and finished in '93. The late '50s C Series cabs were used in mid duty trucks well into the '70s, even the Big Horn used the '57 era cab design. Dodge stretched the tooling for as much as they could get out of it!
But hey,Iam a Ford man,But who got the last laugh,They put poor ugly Dodge down for years,When I drove the new 2019 Dodge ram Dually 3 years ago,I said to my girlfriend, That muthafucka is going to get at Ford and Chevrolets ass,And it did,Won motor trends truck of the year 3 years straight, (Dodge won it) my girlfriend loved Dodges,I hate because they Beat all over mustangs sorry underpowered asses with that hellcat,And Ford refused to build a mustang that could beat anything...
@@timothykeith1367 Also 1940's era power wagon made until around 1968 or so, complete with flathead 6 engine...and the Town Wagon was made thru 1966 with 1960 C-series body styling....
You can't you can't kill a 318 if it's got oil in antifreeze hey run forever as long as you have starters alternators and carburetor used to eat them up love that motor
The 318 was solid for sure, but the rest of the truck...not so much. Kind of the same logic for the people who buy Cummins, most of them get the truck not because its a Dodge (Ram) but because its got the Cummins.
I bought a new chevy 4x4 in 66 just before the draft got me. I headed home and pushing it hard true, slung rod out the side with no warning. Motors locked up and the gauge reads the same and motors cooked! I call em up and explain a way and they said too bad so sad. I parked it in yard after wrecker brought me home and had breakfast with buddies at restaurant next morning there in town. We decide as a group were going into town to see if there are any good rigs on the lots to get me by till figured out. So I'm at a dodge outfit in our sister town and tell what I want/like yada yada. He tells me if I'll trade that dead chevy in (it was pretty) he will set me in a new dodge with nice new dodge. Its a deal! They will come and get chevy tomorrow so with the new papers in hand I start driving the dodge home... should I say to be continued, na, so I get on it when out of sight and not real hard but a couple of one wheel peels. I get to the hard turn off to my place and turn just to watch in mirror a axle on the back with tire on it come right out and gone and me sliding sideways right into a ministers car. It took us both out! I would say what I said there but you know anyway. I'm going to hospital back to sister town cause we don't have a hospital and they said I had to go for a few stitches. I was cursing and it wasn't my best day or form. So I'm out of the doctors office going home with a buddy from that town and he tells me to talk to his dad. Turns out he has a older ford 62 with the big knuckle four wheel drive that he will sell me on payments and not to worry that we were friends so he filled it with gas and I did make it that time with a good rig just not pretty but just glad to have wheels. I got out of the army in fall of sixty nine a little messed up but who wasn't. I got home and the guy who had sold me the ford gave me my money back with title in hand free! I still had it but it was parked till I got home. There are friends and then there was Denny H. who believed me and in me. I liked him better than most any one
So this is when you bought a truck you got a truck. Not some rolling network of computers on wheels. There were no body control modules, crash avoidance systems, air bags, or audio control module to sync your phone to that allowed tracking of your whereabouts. At most, the only electronic systems on these older pickups might me electronic ignition systems. And they performed just fine. The steering suspension on newer trucks are similar to what is used in passenger cars. Older solid axle suspension systems were tough. They got the job done. You didn’t expect a comfortable ride, it’s a truck for God’s sake.
It's interesting that Dodge focused on GVWR. Their's being higher, even though payload is higher the Chevy. That suggests that the Dodge simply is a heavier truck.
I'm a Ford guy so I'd go with the Ford, but the best looking Dodges ever made imo were the 1972 - 1993 models, best looking GM's were 1973 - 1988 and Fords were 1973 - 1979. The 70's overall was a good time for anyone who wanted a truck.
@@cbmichels6210 Very popular now, for sure. GM is pretty frustrated that so many of its products of this era are restored down to the bolt, and yet many people can't identify their current products, other than say a few models like Silverado. GM was at the top of their game in 1970.
cj, Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was mandatory to smoke at all times if you were performing any job below the profession of heart surgeon.
Growing up my family had a 1968 Chevrolet C-10 CST with a Six-Pak camper on it. Equipped with the 307 cid V-8, turbo-hydramatic, power steering and power brakes. Had nearly 200,000 miles on it when my Mother sold it 11 years later. Made vacation trips from San Diego, California to Lorain, Ohio from 1968 to 1973 and was a daily driver too.
S Schroeder please. Thats why you can find that Pherd pos in farm implements, cars, trucks, stationary pumps and so on? Oh right thats the slant not that Pherd boat anchor.
Hal 1000 yea ok, you really have no credibility from what you just said about the Ford. I never called the 225 junk, but it’s simply not as good a truck engine as the 300, too small not enough torque, they were better in cars like taxis.
S Schroeder oh i do. Ive been tripping over those phed boat anchors in the wreckers for years. They had better be more powerful than the slant, they're 30% bigger but they dont have a racing history, not in production nearly as long and were not use as widely in way more applications than the slant. And ya they wouldn't out last a slant in any condition. The 300 maybe a decent 6 but its no where as good or verisitile as the slant.
I'm glad that Dodge finally improved the appearance of its trucks by this point. Between the three trucks, I find the 1970 Ford F100 and the Dodge D100 to be the best looking.
No one ever compared their trucks with IHC. When looking to take market share away from a competitor, you don't pick the competitor who hardly has any market share in the first place. That said, I always appreciated International trucks and considered them better in certain ways than the others (though I didn't care much for the front suspension that they used during the last couple of years before they stopped making light trucks).
International made great trucks, but the people who knew about them worked with IH equipment. Joe from the hardware store would never have considered IH.
IH trucks were pretty good from what I understand, but they were on a major downswing by 1970 in truck sales, they likely weren't included not because they posed any real threat to any of the big three's credibility, but more so because they weren't even a threat at all.
You could get a 426 wedge in '64-67 ultra rare muscletruck Dodge model, but 318. In '67 Dodge the 383 more widely available. Ford didn't have 390 till '68 and Chevy added 396 in '68 too. 440 did not come until '74.
@@kingelvis7035 Sorry to rain on your parade, but, I had a '68 D100 with a 413/auto. Later on, I picked up a Red '70 Cowboy Coupe that was ordered with a 440/auto. Bought them both from original owners.
So what the film is saying is: Dodge is the most expensive base price, has outdated suspension, the weakest 6cyl Engine and the jack at … well … just another place - GO GET IT! ?
she said that the chevrolet has a coil spring rear suspension but it was an option , not standard . in my personal experience of working in junkyards and owning over 55 vehicles fords usually have better paint and body quality for instance i owned a 71 dodge p.u. and inside the cab on a spot welded seam they had actually left a piece of mig welder wire stuck on the body . and the fords twin i-beam is the best front suspension system of the three it gives more wheel travel than the others and handles and rides better than the dodges straight axle but is still simple and rugged .
I'm not particularly a Ford or a Chevy guy,but I do own both brands. My old 93 Explorer has twin I beam front suspension and it's pretty good and solid. I have a 97 S10 also. In the past I've owned a couple of 70s Camaros. I always thought the S10 drove very much like the gen 2 Camaro. The front suspension down to the brakes is virtually Camaro and the rear suspension and the straight axle is very similar to the gen 2 Camaro. I like both brands they both have their good and bad points.
@@Thundarr995 - Interesting. Back in 1997 I took a new job, lost my Ford Taurus company car, and had to go buy a new vehicle on short notice. I decided I wanted a small pickup and shopped both the Ranger and the S10. After test driving both, it was my distinct impression that the Ranger was a truck, and the S10 was a car with a truck’s body! Ended up going with the new Ranger and that thing was an awesome little vehicle! Ran it up to around 235k miles before giving it to my niece as her high school vehicle. She sold it to a neighbor lady when she went away to college and I still see it around from time-to-time doing “Home Depot Duty” for her flower beds!
Smooth i-team? You'd go down a washboard gravel road and it would vibrate you into a ditch. I had one do that to me, for real! Ride like a lumber wagon!
And even after this commercial I still bought a Chevrolet...and still do to this day...I’ve drove all three and I’ve got them rated Chevrolet, Ford and then Dodge....not saying the others are bad cause their not...just a personal preference....
I had a Slant 6 Dodge truck in the mid-70's for work. It had no power steering, manual 3 speed stick shift, no radio, no a/c, just a work truck. That thing was actually very tough and held up great. But man, it was slow. Top speed on level ground, and not loaded, was 75mph. Loaded with filing cabinets in the bed, and a single axle trailer also loaded with filing cabinets, was 50mph, wide open throttle. But you could not wear out that 225 slant 6, it was a tough engine.
Wow! You could get it to 75 mph. The slant six is dependable, but the Ford 300 is better suited for loads. I'm a slant six fan and have a Sweptline with a 225. I'd liked to have seen a 300-ish inch inline six diesel in a 1/2 ton. The v8 Cummins in the Nissan Titan missed the mark. The F100 with the 300 six is a good truck.
Cooks don't serve your lunch with a cigarette in their hand anymore (though they still do that here in Japan). Unfortunately, the Dodge trucks that year were hideous, which is why few were sold.
Let's all be honest. The Ford and Chevy are far better looking than the old Dodge. I've owned the F100 and 2 C10s. The Dodge and Ford don't even compare as far as the ride and comfort of a C10. They just set perfect and with the vent window you didn't really need AC. I miss vent windows and the vent down by your shins. My grandpa had a 68 D100 and I always considered it to be the ugliest truck. My first vehicle was a 68 F100 with the side tool box in front of the right rear wheel house. A 24 pack of cold treats fit perfectly in that box.
Only thing I didn't like about those trucks was they put the gas tanks inside the cabs which was dangerous because say like if a driver of another car runs a red light or a stop sign & t-bones you between the cab & pickup bed, the gas tank would probably explode.
You still see thousands of Ford bumpsides on the road, but never see any Dodge trucks from that time frame. Not many Chevy or GMC's either. Here in 2022 you can still get every nut and bolt for the old Fords. Good luck finding Dodge truck parts.
Flip.that Ford stores the jack handle under the seat ? And Chevy's is so inconviently located behind the seat ? I'm sold on dodge now ...lol actually the Chevy is the most sought after one today maybe just my opinion but it's the easiest to street rod , rat rod or customize , those coil springs in the rear make it easy to air bag a Chevy c10 just take the springs out put air bags ,coil overs , lowering springs etc , I have a 69 F 250 great truck as is but the crown Vic front end swaps , rear 4 links etc Chevy's way easier .....
@@mr.reality9741 I agree lol, admittedly back in those days rust proofing wasn't nearly as good as it is today, it wasn't terribly uncommon for vehicles of this vintage less than five years old to start showing signs of rust, even more so if they were used hard and put away wet like most of these trucks would have been, but the majority of people I see and hear complain about rust (especially these days) usually are the type that wash their car/truck once or so a year.
The chevy is amazing looking. My friend had a 70 GMC longhorn LS9 350 all original drove like caddy was fast took work easily. The Ford has best rear axle
That Ford Twin I-beam front suspension wasn’t worth a damn. The unequal length control arm on the Chevy was by far the best. I much preferred the Chevy back in the day ...
460 Wasn't around then plus they are heavy engines just like the 429 was although they can be built very easily to make good power . The Dodge in those early years 65 could be had with the 426 wedge that at the time was rated at 365hp more than both competitors & there are old films of them at the drag strip beating cars in the 1/4 mile which is funny to see . Later year Dodge trucks could be had with the 361 383 413 & later still the 400 & 440 which were all used at one time in your big RVs trucks & your muscle cars like the Chargers Superbee Road runner & of course the cop cars but they were tuned different than the trucks using bigger cams more compression bigger CFM carburetors & better exhaust plus the 6 pack or 6 Barrel option . In 1978 Dodge built the little red express & Plymouth had the black Warlock that looked almost the same with those big chrome side stacks on the cab in a short box which Dodge calls a utility line box but they all came with the small block 360 with the 4 barrel thermoquad that in 1978 was the quickest performing vehicle from the USA stock in the 1/4 mile beating out the Corvette buy quite a bit lol. One of the things I liked about these trucks was they were easy to work on especially if it needed under hood attention because you could literally sit on the inner fender well & if you needed to do any work behind the engine or pull the engine the hood didn't need to come off because it could be opened up & back far enough that it would touch the roof out of the way where with the other trucks the hoods had to come off which for a mechanic that saves time & is more money in the shops pockets at the time . I like the new trucks but too much gadgets & electronics that give problems like the AFM on all 3 of them have that causes issues but I like the old trucks all models because of the simplicity of them being almost like a old tractor to work on which is pretty easy to keep them running most of the times .
My dad had a 1970 Chevy C10 truck, and I remember it having a gauge cluster featuring gauges for *Fuel,* *Temperature,* and if I'm not mistaken, for *Oil Pressure.* They weren't very easy to see, since they were *underneath* the speedometer and the fuel gauge. But they were there.
@@robertsherman8887 my pops has both the 81/82 longbed 4x2 and 83/84 shortbed 4x4 (similar to fall guy) GMC Sierra when i was a kid and a few Chevys of that generation mostly 4x2s and one 197_ 4x4 shortbed with 8 lug wagonwheels, the 81-87 are the best of that generation cause of the now standardized chevy style stack headlights, and of course the best 4x4 system of all makes without electronics.
I had two of this model Dodge truck, one was a 1/2 ton and the other a 3/4 ton. Both trucks were very primitive compared to the competitors but I got a load of gravel once in the 3/4 ton and they weighed the truck before and after you were loaded because they charged by the ton. Before the gravel the truck weighed 4900 pounds and after I got loaded it tipped the scale at 9900 pounds, I had 2.5 tons of gravel in the bed which was heaped up almost to the top of the cab. But on the way home I forgot I had to pick up my boat from being worked on, the boat was a 20' tri-haul I/O. So I swung in and hitched the trailer to the 10k pound truck and cruised the highway home no problem, The truck wasn't even down to the stops in back.
dakota $2,800 in 1970 is worth $18,659.21 today. However, trucks are a lot more sophisticated today. I have a 2014 Ram Ecodiesel, and a 70 Dodge D100 - both are great trucks, but the Ecodiesel is more akin to a Cadillac those days than to the D100.
I had a 1970 Dodge camper special that had a factory 383 that was a tough truck it sat in a pasture for two years I jumped started it and drove it 40 miles home without a problem. I had a 12 ft self contained camper on the back, that truck didnt even know there was any weight on it and still go 80 up hill
I have a 70 CC with the original 402 BB/turbo 400. My daily driver since I bought it a year and a half ago. Has the factory overload springs and Dana posi. It currently has 89,500 miles. Lot's of favorable comments on it even though it needs some resto work.
I like how it’s a Dodge promo but they highlight the important work and function features and still gave credit to Ford and Chevy when they had the better feature. Nowadays they put each other down and just show you the interior and the tech features that costs more.
There's no such thing as truth in advertising any more, businesses and their customers generate their own truths. There's no reason to acknowledge the strengths of your competition when they aren't a part of the reality one has chosen to live in
V R different world...
These weren't commercials they were Dodge sales trading.
@@303nitzubishi4 their has never been truth in advertising.
I'm so sick of talk of "interiors" on today's vehicles, especially trucks...interior shouldn't matter that much on a truck,and besides, I don't consider a bunch of plastic, bucket seats and consoles, dash screens, cup holders much of an "interior" on a truck anyways...give me a thick vinyl bench seat, column shift(unless it's a 4 or 5 speed manual), and a rubber floor mat...that's all the "interior" you need in a pickup....
Over the years I have owned all 3 of those 1970 models and I'm a Dodge guy but my Ford was best
None could beat Ford back then, It's the world's best selling pickup today,And holds the record for being the most stolen vehicle today 2022, F-150... Dodge was better than a Chevy,Gm trucks too soft-built and wouldn't pull much of shit,318 would beat Ford 302 and Chevy 307,but that 307 was fast as hell for it's small size,I like them all though,I grew up in them,It's American 🏈🏈🏈, Tailgating....
I like 'em all, but my favorite is the Chevy..IMHO, the best pickup body style ever made..not that the others were bad...one thing I don't like about the Ford, though, is the single-wall cargo box on the upper part....
I'm sold i will take the international harvester
AMEN, I'm a big IH fan, T444E and DT530 are some awesome engines.
Had a '70 IH 4WD truck back in the 80's. Thing was a tank.
IH all the way.
Oh yea! In 1978, I bought a new Scout II TERRA Pickup Truck, loaded Select Edition with 345/4 brl, dual exhaust, 3:51 Trac Loc, 2 speed HD Transfer, with HD 727 Automatic. In Canyon Black with gold steel off road wheels, 32” GoodYear Tracker Tires, gold stripes down the sides from marker light to marker light and white removable Cab Roof! That truck was a beast! Could tow my brothers 10,000 boat&trailer down to the bay at the beginning of summer and back in the fall, like it wasn’t there! Could haul the rated at 2,000 lbs in the bed without bottoming out on all but the biggest bumps. Great truck!
Great choice I own a 1967 1200 4x4 it’s a great truck
Nowadays, instead of bragging about the most extended bed, you boast about the four-doors and a micro-bed.
YES. Hard time finding a 8 foot bed. Myself has to have.
Exactly,...a major reason I don't want/don't need a modern truck...other reasons are the prices, the really thin sheetmetal(or aluminum), really high bedsides you can't reach over, complicated electronics, and(IMHO), terrible styling....
I have a 1968 F100 my dad bought it brand new in 68, still have it,got a 390 in it , came with a 360 when it was new, had about 370,000 plus miles on it. I put the 390 in it about 17 years ago, truck has now 435,000 miles on it and the old boy still runs great. I'm fixing it up for my son's twin boys. I was seventeen then and I'm just about seventy, I'm just glad the old truck can't talk I would be in some trouble.
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We have been sold to keep buying new cars ,Those trucks were so simple, you can put whatever power train you want in it.
Wish I'd have kept mine. great story
In trouble for your driving in it, or dating in it?....
Nobody cares about your ford. There are a billion of them
I love it. This was from back when men drove trucks and metrosexuals didn't exist.
Comment of the Month Award
Hope you sleep with the light on to keep you safe from all them metrosexuals hiding under your bed
Have to add you sound like one of them pathetic little punks with 100grand in your 4x4 with a 5grand paint job with out a scratch on it because you have to garage it if it even looks like it might rain
That were the good old days
2 words: Freddie Mercury.
The Dodge truck is the oldest looking in 1970
Seriously. That roof and the side molding are 50's era styling.
Today it's the coolest looking
Chevy and Ford design was from 67 and Dodge was still using its 61 design with a few changes.
The Dodge truck body style started in 1961!
The Ford truck body style started in 1967!
The Chevrolet truck body style started in 1967 too!
Yes, you are right!
The Dodge was over due for a new look!
yes. they were way overdue for a remodel by that point, but it didn’t happen until 1972.
Grandpa had a 1969 Dodge truck with slant-6 and three on the tree. Love it!
I had the same truck ,green with a white roof. I paid $425.00 used i was 18-19 years old. Around 1976. Had no tailgate tho.
Blue truck, white top
Had a ‘75 D-100 Adventurer w/slant 6 & 3 speed - loved it for 4 years and just under 100,000 trouble free miles. Now have a ‘97 Dakota I have had for 23 years and still under 100,000 miles.
So sad. A set of wheels and tires for a modern truck cost more than the whole damn truck did back then....
Well … no. 1970s 2500$ would be in today money some $17.000$. So the truck would still be relatively cheap compared to modern trucks, but technological also quite primitive.
I e.g. don't want to sit in such a thing even in a 25 mph collision.
(See e.g. here: www.usinflationcalculator.com)
@@Slazlo-Brovnik what kind of modern "protect today" seizure was that.
@@artdecotimes2942 Frankly: no idea what you mean or want to say ... sry
@@Slazlo-Brovnik your being afraid of the past and constantly bettering the modern era. Which isn't true, you just weren't around to drive the trucks back in 1970, so you think by your guesses that it doesn't work very well compared to a modern day truck. The best truck I ever had was a 1937 Hudson Terraplane Pickup, worked fine, looked fantastic and elegant, and easily started and stopped. If you drove 40 in that automobile or any other you would survive, in modern day if you drove 40 into that automobile you would be in for a hell. Modern day does their damnest to advertise today in only good light. Back then it was all the arrangements from fantastic, to bad, to worst. You will never find pictures of crashes in current times in advertisments, only a cancer patient and black family thrown in there that are smiling for no reason, oh and testing ground conditions like the artic to the desert which doesn't show anything.
@@artdecotimes2942I am afraid of the past? What should that even mean?
But okay: I am 60 now and learned driving around 1975 on a then already old VW T1 flatbed from 1963. Got my Driving license 1978. So I do remember the old times, I drove the old cars.
Regarding your statements about vehicle safety - those are ... sorry ... just ridiculous. Modern cars are so much safer. Just compare the number of deaths due to traffic accidents which are way lower today than in the 70ties (no matter what country) although we have much more cars and denser traffic today.
If you are seriously trying to tell me that a 1937 car is safer than any modern car, then we are already done - because that's just nonsense.
You can even find here on TH-cam a video with a head on offset crash test between a 2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air It shows that the driver in the much bigger Bel Air would be most likely dead or at least severely hurt, while the Chevy Malibu is way better of and had good chances to just walk away. And a 2009 Chevy Malibu is 11 years old today and not even state of the art.
Here ist the link for you: th-cam.com/video/fPF4fBGNK0U/w-d-xo.html
And of course advertising at no time in history showed crashed cars and always showed products in good light. It's Advertising!
But what they do today is crashtests and you can find a lot of footage e.g. here on you tube. Just compare how older cars compare to todays cars.
nice to see all three so new, not rotted out. pretty funny how they brag about three bucks cheaper back then
Three Gold-Backed US Dollars...when the Greenback was actual money.
If the truck spent its entire "life" in a southern state, that rarely got snow & salt to melt it, the truck would probably STILL look like that today!
@@saxongreen78 thats funny because greenbacks werent backed by gold they were a fiat currency ordered by lincoln during the civil war
Right on.
I still see 1970 Chevy Trucks on the road today! Don't see many 1970 Dodge Trucks today unless at a Mopar car show.
They all rotted
More of the Sweptlines are being restored. They have a nitch fan base that's growing, more body patch panels are available. But trim and grilles are hard to find.
Dodge sold way less, Einstein
I was ready to buy the ford, but then when I saw the jack handle behind the seat? no thank you
Yeah really.... LOL.
I had two Fords in 70 and i still can't find the code reader port, i know it's there.
I'am from Argentina and have a D 100 74' whit Perkins engine diesel. Good truck!!
Hahaha chevy is bad because it has coil springs in the back.... what did dodge do in 09??? Cool video though.
LOL, thing is the GM IFS has been a week link for GM for decades, it's far too weak.
I had a '70 GMC that was a coil spring truck. It rode out great.
@@lclfav2 they're fantastic driving trucks. My friend had a 68 & I had 71. Both 3 speed manuals. His with coils, & mine had factory leafs in the back. There's nothing like them today. I Thumbs up your post.
Logan Derksen aluminum was bad at Chevy. Now they save 500lbs by using it
@@geraldthompson4633 I am aware of the bell housing, & thermostat housing's are aluminum.... what other components were aluminum? Those components would be nice to know....
I'll say this for these comparison videos, they're sure entertaining to watch.
Beautiful Old trucks mate infact they look wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than anything you see on the road today.
CJ Colvin Have you been blind all your life?
I agree with CJ Colvin . The new trucks of today are to big and overpriced . Can't get a manual shift . To much computerized technology that I don't need or use .
Uhh, no they don’t. Today’s trucks are drop dead gorgeous, vagina snatchers. Neither of them old trucks fit that description.
@kcotte59 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
@@label1877 Yeah right mate.
The Chevy and Ford just better looking trucks.
Yeah, I never did care for this generation of Dodge. The 1972 - 1993 Dodge trucks looked much better in my opinion. Those were the best looking trucks they produced.
I drove a 1960 6 cylinder good truck and I bought a 1967 dodge 3/4 four speed v 8 camper special very dependable truck and easy to work on it. Now all vehicles look beautiful but they're nothing but very expensive plastic .
That Dodge body style was pretty “long in the tooth” by 1970 and still had another year to go! Then came 1972 and finally a redesign - which was still being stamped out 21 years later.....😂
Yeah. Technically the D series began in '61 and got a new body and IFS in '72, and finished in '93. The late '50s C Series cabs were used in mid duty trucks well into the '70s, even the Big Horn used the '57 era cab design. Dodge stretched the tooling for as much as they could get out of it!
But hey,Iam a Ford man,But who got the last laugh,They put poor ugly Dodge down for years,When I drove the new 2019 Dodge ram Dually 3 years ago,I said to my girlfriend, That muthafucka is going to get at Ford and Chevrolets ass,And it did,Won motor trends truck of the year 3 years straight, (Dodge won it) my girlfriend loved Dodges,I hate because they Beat all over mustangs sorry underpowered asses with that hellcat,And Ford refused to build a mustang that could beat anything...
@@timothykeith1367 Guess they couldn't afford a total redesign as often.
@@timothykeith1367 Also 1940's era power wagon made until around 1968 or so, complete with flathead 6 engine...and the Town Wagon was made thru 1966 with 1960 C-series body styling....
I'll take a a 396 chevy truck with a turbohydramatic transmission also cold air and a delco amfm radio.That all I need back then and all I need today.
I'm a Dodge guy but that Chevy truck is sure nice looking
I'm sold ill take the ford thanks .
Ford, Fix Often Repair Daily
@@edwardpate6128 first on race day.
With the 300 six
@@stubs1227 failed on race day
I’ll take the 318 , one of the best engines of all time ..
You can't you can't kill a 318 if it's got oil in antifreeze hey run forever as long as you have starters alternators and carburetor used to eat them up love that motor
The 318 was solid for sure, but the rest of the truck...not so much. Kind of the same logic for the people who buy Cummins, most of them get the truck not because its a Dodge (Ram) but because its got the Cummins.
You're lucky. I had the 318 in a '72 Charger...POS!
@@danbolton3180 your just unlucky hahaha the 318 is well known for being simply unkillable
So then he said forget it, and went out and bought an international.
I bought a new chevy 4x4 in 66 just before the draft got me. I headed home and pushing it hard true, slung rod out the side with no warning. Motors locked up and the gauge reads the same and motors cooked! I call em up and explain a way and they said too bad so sad. I parked it in yard after wrecker brought me home and had breakfast with buddies at restaurant next morning there in town. We decide as a group were going into town to see if there are any good rigs on the lots to get me by till figured out. So I'm at a dodge outfit in our sister town and tell what I want/like yada yada. He tells me if I'll trade that dead chevy in (it was pretty) he will set me in a new dodge with nice new dodge. Its a deal! They will come and get chevy tomorrow so with the new papers in hand I start driving the dodge home... should I say to be continued, na, so I get on it when out of sight and not real hard but a couple of one wheel peels. I get to the hard turn off to my place and turn just to watch in mirror a axle on the back with tire on it come right out and gone and me sliding sideways right into a ministers car. It took us both out! I would say what I said there but you know anyway. I'm going to hospital back to sister town cause we don't have a hospital and they said I had to go for a few stitches. I was cursing and it wasn't my best day or form. So I'm out of the doctors office going home with a buddy from that town and he tells me to talk to his dad. Turns out he has a older ford 62 with the big knuckle four wheel drive that he will sell me on payments and not to worry that we were friends so he filled it with gas and I did make it that time with a good rig just not pretty but just glad to have wheels. I got out of the army in fall of sixty nine a little messed up but who wasn't. I got home and the guy who had sold me the ford gave me my money back with title in hand free! I still had it but it was parked till I got home. There are friends and then there was Denny H. who believed me and in me. I liked him better than most any one
So this is when you bought a truck you got a truck. Not some rolling network of computers on wheels. There were no body control modules, crash avoidance systems, air bags, or audio control module to sync your phone to that allowed tracking of your whereabouts.
At most, the only electronic systems on these older pickups might me electronic ignition systems. And they performed just fine.
The steering suspension on newer trucks are similar to what is used in passenger cars. Older solid axle suspension systems were tough. They got the job done. You didn’t expect a comfortable ride, it’s a truck for God’s sake.
And which one was the biggest seller? Here’s a hint, it doesn’t start with a D😉😄
Ford was
It's interesting that Dodge focused on GVWR. Their's being higher, even though payload is higher the Chevy. That suggests that the Dodge simply is a heavier truck.
The front beam axle has that advantage.
I am a Dodge man but the Dodge was too ugly to consider ...if I were a buyer back then.
I'm a Ford guy so I'd go with the Ford, but the best looking Dodges ever made imo were the 1972 - 1993 models, best looking GM's were 1973 - 1988 and Fords were 1973 - 1979. The 70's overall was a good time for anyone who wanted a truck.
@@nathanmcdonald610 the most sought after body style trucks of this era is the 67-72 c10s. There absolutely beautiful body styles
Dodge would finally modernize the looks of its truck in 1972. The 1970 truck looks dated compared the Chevy and Ford.
Mario Di Ponio yes true
Then they were behind again when GM redesigned the trucks for 1973.
David Leavitt square body 🤟🤟🤟
From a guy who owns a 70 C10 I personally think it's the best looking truck of the year. No comparison
I got one to //LOVE IT
@@cbmichels6210 Very popular now, for sure. GM is pretty frustrated that so many of its products of this era are restored down to the bolt, and yet many people can't identify their current products, other than say a few models like Silverado. GM was at the top of their game in 1970.
I agree
'It beats hell outta the blue plate special!" Classic!
The thing that got me going was Dodge still selling a truck with a front suspension from the 1930s. And a electrical system from the 1910s.
You can still get a new heavy duty Ford pickup with a front beam axle
I'll take the Ford
I’ll take the much better Chevrolet
@ 0:50 the guy serving food has a smoke in his lips.... LOL . How times have changed .
charles jenkins
cj, Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was mandatory to smoke at all times if you were performing any job below the profession of heart surgeon.
Ya cuz food now gives you cancer
that sales model in that corduroy bikini looked like she was smuggling an afro in her britches baaahahahaha
Probably was given the time period.
Growing up my family had a 1968 Chevrolet C-10 CST with a Six-Pak camper on it. Equipped with the 307 cid V-8, turbo-hydramatic, power steering and power brakes. Had nearly 200,000 miles on it when my Mother sold it 11 years later. Made vacation trips from San Diego, California to Lorain, Ohio from 1968 to 1973 and was a daily driver too.
I would love to have any of the big 3 brand trucks from that era. Theyre all beautiful
I"ll take a C10 any day. 6:27 Did they intentionally misspell gauges? Oh they must have, I see lenth above it.
Amd that spelling gets even worse! 8:53
The '67 to '72 C10 is very popular today. The 307, not so much.
@@timothykeith1367 307 is a excellent engine
I would take a Ford F-100 Ranger with a 390 FE V8. Looks better than the Chevy or Dodge IMHO.
I had a 72 Ranger XLT with the 360 FE.
The slant six Gus...so you have a solid lifter ticker six oh yea. Me thinks the Chev and Ford sixes were better, quieter, more powerful.
S Schroeder but wouldn't last as long as a slant. Oh and ps, solid lifters. Last engine in production than anyone else before switching to hydraulic
Hal 1000 yea BS. A Ford 300 will walk all over a slant 225 and last longer. Tick tick tick says the rickety slant six.
S Schroeder please. Thats why you can find that Pherd pos in farm implements, cars, trucks, stationary pumps and so on? Oh right thats the slant not that Pherd boat anchor.
Hal 1000 yea ok, you really have no credibility from what you just said about the Ford. I never called the 225 junk, but it’s simply not as good a truck engine as the 300, too small not enough torque, they were better in cars like taxis.
S Schroeder oh i do. Ive been tripping over those phed boat anchors in the wreckers for years. They had better be more powerful than the slant, they're 30% bigger but they dont have a racing history, not in production nearly as long and were not use as widely in way more applications than the slant.
And ya they wouldn't out last a slant in any condition.
The 300 maybe a decent 6 but its no where as good or verisitile as the slant.
I take the Twin I Beam
Back then, Dodge was brand X when it came to trucks. Even looked half assed. Ford and Chevy led the game.
I'm glad that Dodge finally improved the appearance of its trucks by this point. Between the three trucks, I find the 1970 Ford F100 and the Dodge D100 to be the best looking.
That Dodge is one ugly truck.
Dodge was ugly as hell
You may not like the appearance of the Dodge truck at this point. But it takes more than appearance to make a good truck. :)
@@jasoncarpp7742 appearance doesn't cut it ! But toughness does ,,,both chev & FORD are out of that game !
@@eleanorecopet4090 This was before I was born. I've never driven either of the trucks in the video.
I can't help but notice that they didn't even try to compare their truck with the beast- International Harvester.
Lee Huff International got out of truck game only a few years later, their sales were low.
No one ever compared their trucks with IHC. When looking to take market share away from a competitor, you don't pick the competitor who hardly has any market share in the first place. That said, I always appreciated International trucks and considered them better in certain ways than the others (though I didn't care much for the front suspension that they used during the last couple of years before they stopped making light trucks).
International made great trucks, but the people who knew about them worked with IH equipment. Joe from the hardware store would never have considered IH.
The farmers knew which truck to buy and it wasn’t any of theses. IH all the way.
IH trucks were pretty good from what I understand, but they were on a major downswing by 1970 in truck sales, they likely weren't included not because they posed any real threat to any of the big three's credibility, but more so because they weren't even a threat at all.
Can I get a Dodge truck with a 440 and a 4-speed? 😁
383, 413, and some years 440s!
You could get a 426 wedge in '64-67 ultra rare muscletruck Dodge model, but 318. In '67 Dodge the 383 more widely available. Ford didn't have 390 till '68 and Chevy added 396 in '68 too. 440 did not come until '74.
Hey, the 1978 360 2 bbl was a running machine.
@@kingelvis7035 Sorry to rain on your parade, but, I had a '68 D100 with a 413/auto.
Later on, I picked up a Red '70 Cowboy Coupe that was ordered with a 440/auto. Bought them both from original owners.
And the 426street wedge for power 365 HP back in the day I have one in a power wagon
Ford f-150 1973 460 v8 4bb.
So what the film is saying is: Dodge is the most expensive base price, has outdated suspension, the weakest 6cyl Engine and the jack at … well … just another place - GO GET IT! ?
In 1970, that sales pitch probably worked. But they were just splitting hairs.
That spelling at 6:30.....
Apparently you get std with it back then. Lol
He meant "lenth" instead of "length"
More sexually transmitted disease gajes!
what about Gajes?
Thank God the Jack was under the hood.
she said that the chevrolet has a coil spring rear suspension but it was an option , not standard . in my personal experience of working in junkyards and owning over 55 vehicles fords usually have better paint and body quality for instance i owned a 71 dodge p.u. and inside the cab on a spot welded seam they had actually left a piece of mig welder wire stuck on the body . and the fords twin i-beam is the best front suspension system of the three it gives more wheel travel than the others and handles and rides better than the dodges straight axle but is still simple and rugged .
You actually know whay you are talking about. The rest of the people are arm chair couch potatoes.
I'm not particularly a Ford or a Chevy guy,but I do own both brands. My old 93 Explorer has twin I beam front suspension and it's pretty good and solid. I have a 97 S10 also. In the past I've owned a couple of 70s Camaros. I always thought the S10 drove very much like the gen 2 Camaro. The front suspension down to the brakes is virtually Camaro and the rear suspension and the straight axle is very similar to the gen 2 Camaro. I like both brands they both have their good and bad points.
@@Thundarr995 best explanation I have heard. I agree, the chev drives like a car and the ford is a truck.
@@Thundarr995 - Interesting. Back in 1997 I took a new job, lost my Ford Taurus company car, and had to go buy a new vehicle on short notice. I decided I wanted a small pickup and shopped both the Ranger and the S10. After test driving both, it was my distinct impression that the Ranger was a truck, and the S10 was a car with a truck’s body!
Ended up going with the new Ranger and that thing was an awesome little vehicle! Ran it up to around 235k miles before giving it to my niece as her high school vehicle. She sold it to a neighbor lady when she went away to college and I still see it around from time-to-time doing “Home Depot Duty” for her flower beds!
If you bought all three and put them away until now everyone knows what one brings top dollar now!
Me Garden Yeah, the Chevy.
Hehehe
Ya the Ford...
Sorry I’d buy the F100 every time
You should apologize.
I've daily driven a '72 F100, a '72 C10, and currently drive a '65 C20. I know which one I get the most thumbs up in!
I remember the 1965 Chevy,my dad had one when he was out of work
I would drive my 63 C10, but it's always broke down
Back when commercials weren't all bullshit
Nice trucks but that Dodge looks like it's a 1960 model.
Regarding chrome trim and side moldings, my uncle used to say "Hell, I'd pay you to keep that crap OFF my truck!"
Smooth i-team? You'd go down a washboard gravel road and it would vibrate you into a ditch. I had one do that to me, for real! Ride like a lumber wagon!
I just can't get past how UGLY the Dodge is. Ford and Chevy were about equal back then.
And even after this commercial I still bought a Chevrolet...and still do to this day...I’ve drove all three and I’ve got them rated Chevrolet, Ford and then Dodge....not saying the others are bad cause their not...just a personal preference....
I love those year Ford Trucks!!!
I had a Slant 6 Dodge truck in the mid-70's for work. It had no power steering, manual 3 speed stick shift, no radio, no a/c, just a work truck. That thing was actually very tough and held up great. But man, it was slow. Top speed on level ground, and not loaded, was 75mph. Loaded with filing cabinets in the bed, and a single axle trailer also loaded with filing cabinets, was 50mph, wide open throttle. But you could not wear out that 225 slant 6, it was a tough engine.
Wow! You could get it to 75 mph. The slant six is dependable, but the Ford 300 is better suited for loads. I'm a slant six fan and have a Sweptline with a 225. I'd liked to have seen a 300-ish inch inline six diesel in a 1/2 ton. The v8 Cummins in the Nissan Titan missed the mark. The F100 with the 300 six is a good truck.
I bet you could really taste the Cigarette ash in the blue plate special
Buddy at the diner smoking a dart while he chats ahhh the good old days lol
Cooks don't serve your lunch with a cigarette in their hand anymore (though they still do that here in Japan). Unfortunately, the Dodge trucks that year were hideous, which is why few were sold.
Hideous? Probably my favorite styled truck ever.
At least Explain how they were hideous.
Dodge was ugliest, hands down.
Had a 70 model with the slant 6. Could no kill that old truck. How I wish I had it back.
Let's all be honest. The Ford and Chevy are far better looking than the old Dodge. I've owned the F100 and 2 C10s. The Dodge and Ford don't even compare as far as the ride and comfort of a C10. They just set perfect and with the vent window you didn't really need AC. I miss vent windows and the vent down by your shins. My grandpa had a 68 D100 and I always considered it to be the ugliest truck. My first vehicle was a 68 F100 with the side tool box in front of the right rear wheel house. A 24 pack of cold treats fit perfectly in that box.
Chevys the better looking truck, I’m sure they all get the job done though.
Only thing I didn't like about those trucks was they put the gas tanks inside the cabs which was dangerous because say like if a driver of another car runs a red light or a stop sign & t-bones you between the cab & pickup bed, the gas tank would probably explode.
You still see thousands of Ford bumpsides on the road, but never see any Dodge trucks from that time frame. Not many Chevy or GMC's either. Here in 2022 you can still get every nut and bolt for the old Fords. Good luck finding Dodge truck parts.
The Dodge has more moldings that's why it's better.
I'll take the Ford. We had a 69 F250, we had it for over 25 years, it was tough! Dodge wasn't selling very many trucks back then.
That ford would be $17,700 today
SimonTek I’ll take it!!
Just a little less than the 67-72 C10s
@@brandonbell3089 probably. My 69 chevy didn't sell for barely anything. This is why I don't do sales. Lol
@@SimonTekConley the 67-72 Chevrolet trucks are one of highest value vintage trucks in history this day in age. Extremely sought after
you got to love advertising.they could point out how a 1915 biplane is superior to the concorde. advertisers specialize in disposable truth.
Sweptline all the way
I miss my Dodge D100 Adventurer
5:20 Well you know the Chevrolet offers an option with an instrument cluster that has gas, heat, battery, oil, and speedometer.
My best one at that time was the ford
Best one there was and the most sought after. The 67-72 Chevrolet trucks
Flip.that Ford stores the jack handle under the seat ? And Chevy's is so inconviently located behind the seat ? I'm sold on dodge now ...lol actually the Chevy is the most sought after one today maybe just my opinion but it's the easiest to street rod , rat rod or customize , those coil springs in the rear make it easy to air bag a Chevy c10 just take the springs out put air bags ,coil overs , lowering springs etc , I have a 69 F 250 great truck as is but the crown Vic front end swaps , rear 4 links etc Chevy's way easier .....
I was adventuresome in those days. Make mine an Adventurer with the full Ziebart rustproofing.
had a 70 ford brand new 3 yrs old it was rotted through rust on bed , they were all junk then!
michael S you might’ve tried WASHING it. Helps with the rust thing.
@@mr.reality9741 I agree lol, admittedly back in those days rust proofing wasn't nearly as good as it is today, it wasn't terribly uncommon for vehicles of this vintage less than five years old to start showing signs of rust, even more so if they were used hard and put away wet like most of these trucks would have been, but the majority of people I see and hear complain about rust (especially these days) usually are the type that wash their car/truck once or so a year.
The chevy is amazing looking. My friend had a 70 GMC longhorn LS9 350 all original drove like caddy was fast took work easily. The Ford has best rear axle
The narrator at the start of the video is Sonny Elliot who was a well known Detroit area weatherman for decades!
That Ford Twin I-beam front suspension wasn’t worth a damn.
The unequal length control arm on the Chevy was by far the best.
I much preferred the Chevy back in the day ...
I agree
Ford with a 460 manual transmission
460 Wasn't around then plus they are heavy engines just like the 429 was although they can be built very easily to make good power . The Dodge in those early years 65 could be had with the 426 wedge that at the time was rated at 365hp more than both competitors & there are old films of them at the drag strip beating cars in the 1/4 mile which is funny to see . Later year Dodge trucks could be had with the 361 383 413 & later still the 400 & 440 which were all used at one time in your big RVs trucks & your muscle cars like the Chargers Superbee Road runner & of course the cop cars but they were tuned different than the trucks using bigger cams more compression bigger CFM carburetors & better exhaust plus the 6 pack or 6 Barrel option . In 1978 Dodge built the little red express & Plymouth had the black Warlock that looked almost the same with those big chrome side stacks on the cab in a short box which Dodge calls a utility line box but they all came with the small block 360 with the 4 barrel thermoquad that in 1978 was the quickest performing vehicle from the USA stock in the 1/4 mile beating out the Corvette buy quite a bit lol. One of the things I liked about these trucks was they were easy to work on especially if it needed under hood attention because you could literally sit on the inner fender well & if you needed to do any work behind the engine or pull the engine the hood didn't need to come off because it could be opened up & back far enough that it would touch the roof out of the way where with the other trucks the hoods had to come off which for a mechanic that saves time & is more money in the shops pockets at the time . I like the new trucks but too much gadgets & electronics that give problems like the AFM on all 3 of them have that causes issues but I like the old trucks all models because of the simplicity of them being almost like a old tractor to work on which is pretty easy to keep them running most of the times .
Would love to have a 1970 dodge truck!! I'm sold!!!
I recognize the voice of the narrator. I am almost certain that is the Iconic Detroit weatherman Sonny Elliot!
Chevy still had the much better looking truck
My dad had a 1970 Chevy C10 truck, and I remember it having a gauge cluster featuring gauges for *Fuel,* *Temperature,* and if I'm not mistaken, for *Oil Pressure.* They weren't very easy to see, since they were *underneath* the speedometer and the fuel gauge. But they were there.
That was optional
Ford had them beat
No Chevrolet BY FAR had both beat in looks and performance 😂😂. The 67-72 c10 trucks are the most sought after truck body style in history
I own a f150. But back in 1970 Dodge was the ugliest, Ford was in the middle , Chevy was the best looking truck period.
David Arnette I'll take that as a personal compliment
The 67-72 c10s were good looking trucks. 67 was always my favourite, and I've had my 67 since I was 13
Sorry but a decked out ranger from back then was totally bad ass the Chevy was a pretty sweet clean design but that dodge is one buttugly truck
Yep Dodge wasn't feminine like Ford and Chevy I see what you mean feller
I think all three trucks look great! They forgot to include the 1970 Jeep J-2000 pickup. Jeeps were great looking trucks too!
1967-1972 was probably the best model chevy ever made.
I have a 1970
@@cbmichels6210 Me to I love my truck!
I say 73-87
@@brandedmcgowan9414 Square body's are very popular 👍 I have a 62,70,72 and 78 blazer and pickup and an 86 Suburban.
@@robertsherman8887 my pops has both the 81/82 longbed 4x2 and 83/84 shortbed 4x4 (similar to fall guy) GMC Sierra when i was a kid and a few Chevys of that generation mostly 4x2s and one 197_ 4x4 shortbed with 8 lug wagonwheels, the 81-87 are the best of that generation cause of the now standardized chevy style stack headlights, and of course the best 4x4 system of all makes without electronics.
I had two of this model Dodge truck, one was a 1/2 ton and the other a 3/4 ton. Both trucks were very primitive compared to the competitors but I got a load of gravel once in the 3/4 ton and they weighed the truck before and after you were loaded because they charged by the ton. Before the gravel the truck weighed 4900 pounds and after I got loaded it tipped the scale at 9900 pounds, I had 2.5 tons of gravel in the bed which was heaped up almost to the top of the cab. But on the way home I forgot I had to pick up my boat from being worked on, the boat was a 20' tri-haul I/O. So I swung in and hitched the trailer to the 10k pound truck and cruised the highway home no problem, The truck wasn't even down to the stops in back.
Great prices. I'll buy all three.
In 1970, did paying $2800 for a pickup seem as impossible as paying $38,000 for a pickup today?
dakota $2,800 in 1970 is worth $18,659.21 today. However, trucks are a lot more sophisticated today. I have a 2014 Ram Ecodiesel, and a 70 Dodge D100 - both are great trucks, but the Ecodiesel is more akin to a Cadillac those days than to the D100.
I get what you are saying, but 38K seems too much like a house payment for the likes of me!@@westernsky4808
Yes, I was there
I had a 1970 Dodge camper special that had a factory 383 that was a tough truck it sat in a pasture for two years I jumped started it and drove it 40 miles home without a problem. I had a 12 ft self contained camper on the back, that truck didnt even know there was any weight on it and still go 80 up hill
The Dodge looks 10 yrs older !
Agreed
I’ll take the Chevy Custom,Camper special.
I have a 70 CC with the original 402 BB/turbo 400. My daily driver since I bought it a year and a half ago. Has the factory overload springs and Dana posi.
It currently has 89,500 miles. Lot's of favorable comments on it even though it needs some resto work.
I love ford / Chevy bashing