1940s DODGE TRUCK PROMOTIONAL FILM "BUILT TO 'TAKE IT'" 46954
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- This late 1930s/early 1940s black and white film Built to “Take It” about Dodge truck dependability provides an extra thousands of miles without valve grinding. It is produced for Dodge Brothers Corporation, a division of Chrysler Corporation by Metropolitan Motion Picture Company. It is directed by Arthur Hoerl and features actor Robert Strange as the customer. The film opens with a Dodge 6 1½-ton stake truck in slow motion completely off the ground as it speeds over a pile of dirt. The truck speeds down a country road through snow. Another slow motion shot has it diving through a sand pile and bouncing across a bumpy field. It also carries double the load to prove its durability (:40-1:45). A Dodge salesman talks to convince a potential buyer at his office (1:46-3:15). A brochure of dodge trucks is shown (3:17). The camera pans down on the Dodge Truck manufacturing plant (3:51-4:00). A large metal bucket of iron, lime, and coke swings into the furnace at the foundry. Buckets of molten metal move through the air and pour out. A mold is cast (4:01-5:28). Metal workers in the factory mill the ends of cylinder blocks. A machine that melds the top, sides, and bottom is shown. The milling cutters spin around up close. The piece is moved to the gang drill (5:30-6:35). The salesman explains the manufacturing process for a valve seat insert. Holes are drilled for the alloy rings. Another worker installs it and a freezing temperature gauge is shown. The ring is shown being pounded in smoothly while it is cold and therefore smaller. Trying to install one at room temperature is a fail (7:20-8:38). The inserts are shown being ground. The valve seats are tested, installed, and submitted to the final grinding (8:39-9:35) The salesman shows the client a cast-iron type piston and a Dodge piston made of aluminum alloy (9:57-10:20).
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I swear, 2 guys, and 2 guys only voiced over every movie, TV show, and commercial back then.
I listen to ads today and they all sound like girly men. I'll take my generation any day over that, see. You have to have a strong voice with confidence, see. Otherwise, folks won't trust you none, see.
@@14598175 Lmao, I swear In every video from the WWII era there's someone posting a unsolicited comment about how men were men back then
I wonder if people really talked with this Mid-Atlantic accent in real life back then or it was just something for the movies and tv.
@@14598175 At the Home Deport get colorful paints for your breakfast nook....
It also had to do with the recording devices and the 1920s acting voice. A lot of wavelengths were not picked up so many voices came out very similar and the voice over production companies sought out voices.
Perfect, I've found my new daily driver for Michigan roads.
I’m with you dude
Good luck finding one, if they even exist at all.
Lol, I live in Michigan and that's so true
Northern Michigan here-so true. There are 2 tracks (off road trails to those who don't know)that are smoother than the paved roads.
Truth be told I daily drive a 66 Chevy pickup.
For the time, hardened steel valve inserts and aluminum pistons were seriously legit premium features.
Even by the late 1960s, cast iron cylinder heads were still being manufactured with the valve seat profile merely cut into the raw casting, and when unleaded gasoline in the 1970s didn't provide protection against adhesive wear, most manufacturers merely induction hardened the iron after cutting the seat profiles, instead of pressing in dedicated inserts.
Yep and now in 2021 that comes standard in my lawn mowers Briggs & Stratton 5.5 hp engine :)
@@lifeisgood3589 It just took 80 years.
They say Didn't Chrysler Engineering for Nothing! for the most part the US Government has ruined ICE Engine's and Auto Manufacturer's can't build an Engine as they see fit and Only what the Government allows
I'm sold, I'll take 2!
I love these old films
That inline 6 engine is a LEGENDARY motor.
That’s why there are almost NO inline engines over 4 cylinders anymore. No money in the upkeep for the shop.
The beast of motors.
They carefully avoid mentioning the driver of the Dodge truck had to have his kidney surgically removed from his esophagus due to the traumatic shock suffered from that jarring ride.
Part of the reliabilty. The truck broke you before you could breack it.
I know my shit was hurting just watching that.
Hahaha.. it Looks so Brutal!!!.. watch the Chrysler Aero test, guy rolls it!! And gets out waves to the crowd opens all the doors and drive away.. and probably dies shortly afterward..
Likely he had a death grip on the steering wheel and his spine compressed like an accordion. After Take 27 or so, he had to unzip to blow his nose and they called him "Shorty." ;-)) Darn good trucks, though.
This would definitely cause that kidney stone to pass.
Those are tough old trucks! I am restoring a '42 Dodge truck. Those engines are simple and reliable.
72polara are there still any parts for them?
How's the restoration going?
I had a 34 and a 45
@@oasissands8584 I gave all my 72 polara parts to the guy who bought my Mother's 72 Polara. Her car had 42000 original miles on it
and was Garage Stored.
I still have an original 360 from a 72 Polara with the Tranny bolted on it. I had All the glass complete front clip grills 8 doors, instruments so many parts.
Good Luck in your search.
I'm restoring my 53 Dodge 3/4 ton pickup truck, it's got a 218 Flathead engine in it with a 4-speed transmission and the body parts are made with heavy metal it was built in Detroit. Back in the good old days of America when things were actually built in the USA.
When quality control meant something... for any company
Yeah!
Exactly. Spot on
That is not quality, that is simplicity...
@@user-jh6vt8vx4v in general older stuff is built better due to the way corporate is in the modern era. It's just like with jeeps. The new ones dont offroad well and are very unreliable. The old ones win all the events and have sometimes over 1 million miles without a rebuild. But I understand your point
If this was made today you'd see ball joints laying all over the field.
Or twisted drive shafts, bent frames lol
@@thatguydillan6360
Go smash the front end of a truck so hard into the dirt it digs a crater out and then proceeds to get airborn and let me know how well that truck faired.
I don't believe they used ball joints in that era they used king pins well into the IFS generation
Broke leaf springs
Thanks Captain Obvious.
What an excellent sales video.
That's really something
Prime example of "They dont make em like they used to."
Lol yeah except they are way more durable and efficient today, but it appears to be the case that more "love" was put into the work back then
@@seanandrew2823 Durable? These newer vehicles can't even go over a curb without breaking something plastic on it.
@@normieslayer1169 A lot of engines didn't have oil filters then, and oil wasn't as good as it is now.
No sales representative at any dealership has that much product knowledge today. They might know about the Bluetooth and how to work the fancy touch screen, but probably has no idea what a piston or valve seat is. Great video.
You know something sad? When I bought my Jeep last year, my salesman (about 60 y.o.) was the ONLY salesman who could drive a manual transmission!! And he said only a couple of their technicians could! But they do all know about all that mickey mouse electronic stuff, though!
@@fordtruxdad5155 that is sad indeed. Especially to hear that their Technicians can't drive manuals. We're doomed! Lol
"You've been here in my office for three days, if I buy a truck will you leave?"
that old deuce and a half was tough as hell and he was hauling ass !
You could keep it running with a hammer, an ignition points file and a volt/ohm meter. You didn't need a room full of diagnostic equipment every time a light blinks on the dash.
True but then again there is a reason the odometers didn't go above 100,000 miles.
You mean my $20 wish dot com code reader that lets me know what’s wrong in 20 seconds and helps me replace an offending O2 sensor 15 years and 200,000 miles after it left the showroom.... which is incidentally about 7 years and 100,000 miles after this would have been scrapped after many many times with a hammer and ohmmeter broke down on the side of the road when my vehicle still got me home with a check engine light.
@@Bartonovich52 These old trucks are still going strong. Look up Dodge power wagon, even Jay Leno has a show on one, check it out, and yes it's been modernized but the bones are what made them. Hell ask any WW2 vet what they thought about them. Oh and look at what they go for, that will give you an idea what they lasted like. Sure the new cars and trucks are great what with all those fine computers and such but when the poo hits the fan you are going to wish you had a points file and an old Dodge.
@@Bartonovich52 Well there is your problem. You can't work out what is wrong without a computer. Also you can't fix it unless the computer tells you how.
My two 75 year old WC 3/4 tonners, are still going. Though I have fitted an electronic igntion to them. Points are still in the back in case.
What really impressed me is the factory hardened valve seats. That’s absolutely boss.
The beginning music score.....I thought King Kong was gonna show up!!!
My uncle had a '46 with a flatbed that he bought off a farmer and that truck was unstoppable. This video is not embellishing one damn bit.
Alot of these trucks lasted 30-50 years and some even run today. Id say the advertising on these was an understatement. The good old days when things were overbuilt, instead of built to be cheap.
I started a welding apprentiship in 1993 and this style of films we still part of the program. I love the vids but staying awake through one is hard to do to this day.
This is when dodge was great
At 9:55 I KNEW he was gonna show the aluminum alloy version! 😎 God bless the Innovators & hard working Men. MOPAR TO YOU!! 💕
You couldn't drive a Dodge, Chevrolet, or Ford truck like that today in 2019. Trucks were simpler and better built then. Try that in one of the three brands today and you'll be at the dealer who says, "Mr. Jamison, you damaged the Johnson-Doohickey sensor inside the engine. We'll have to remove the intake manifold, head, head gaskets, and camshaft, to access it, the part cost $25.00 and the labor is $2500.00.
😆😂😂😂😂
Then I'd go buy a 4 barrel carburetor and intake and stick on that sob
More like 5K for the Dohickey!!!!
That's what I tell my wife about driving in the Appalachian mountains but other than the body style (truck) I don't see any difference between this and my wife leaving the driveway
Better built no way. Overbuilt yes way. Overall, consumer grade products seem to be built just well enough for an intended purpose and lifetime. True for autos as well but longevity is still very manufacturer dependent. I have a well tended Toyota Camry yr 2000 here with 200k miles on it with body in good shape and mechanically sound still. The core mechanical stuff that would of broke if under designed and/or badly implemented hasn't. Parts with known lifetimes (like anything made of non engineering grade plastics) are failing now and then.
Imagine being the driver, you show up to work one normal morning, and get tossed the keys to a brand new dodge truck, when you ask your boss what to do with it, he tells you, take it out back and beat on it to your hearts content
OntarioRedneXXX I would say best day at work ever
I’d have to agree, let’s put her thru her paces bois
Dodge lives on ever
Bootleggers must have loved this truck....
Dirt Rusty I think you missed the joke
@@horsepowerhd2464 a joke should be funny.
Im picking up what your throwing down bud lol but bootleggers also wanted vehicles with V8's because all cop cars at that time were 6 cylinders. So they would tune up their V8 cars to make em even faster and cop cars could never keep up. Same reason Clyde Barrow always stole n drove Ford V8's and wouldn't steal and or drive any other kind of car.
@@dirtrusty7228 Details again, they always get in the way! Lol 😆
Why is that?
Look Mommy, an American truck made with quality before Corporate Greed, CEO Bonuses and Bored Kickbacks got in the way of America's might in industry and quality.
Thats nice, honey
Sad that's true Ford dodge and Chevy were kneck and kneck with there quality then dont know what happend now
I agree but you forgot "American" entitlement. All too many many seem to think their owed something. Lazy entitled workers produce every bit of crap as a cost cutter at the other end. The results is an inferior product.
@@johnfrese4851 GM and Cry-slur were always last in the quality department,my grandfather was a private practicing doctor back from the early 1920's until about 1970.
He always bought V-12 Cadillacs brand new and every one of them were nightmares plagued with reliability issues.Engine timing,steering,front end alignment,burning oil,starting in sub-zero weather etc..
When he switched to buying V-12 Lincoln's and then Packard 120's,almost all reliability issues were gone.
@@4gauge10 did he keep any of them around? A 30s Cadillac 370 would be awesome to have now days.
I worked in car assembly plant and that guy should be hired, I couldn’t learn that many processes in one day
This kinda reminds me of a video I recently watched about companies vying to get there factory machinery rebuilt instead of buying new over seas stuff. This particular company rebuilds them from the ground up for about half of what a new machine would cost. They bring the tolerances back to the steel and cast iron by a method called scraping. They literally wipe the surfaces with tooling die and scrape by hand all of the high spots down to like 1/10 of a thousandths and they completely rebuild the circuitry and electronics and wiring etc and then finish off with high quality automotive paint. The gentleman giving the plant tour said that you could blindfold one of the scraper employees and he could tell you in a couple scrapes if it was cheap soft imported cast iron. These are good old machines that still have value today and can last another 50 years with proper maintenance and lubrication. It makes me proud knowing that we made some of the best iron and steel out there! 🇺🇸
Jeff, that video sounds like something I'd be very interested in watching. Any chance you remember its name, or even just part of the name....so I could take a peek at it too? Thanks!
@@dshmechanic Yes it's called "Rebuilding older machines using the hand scraping method." I'll include the link.
@@dshmechanic
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Thank you, Jeff!
Tried this two weeks ago , got lit up on Twitter and no insurance company will touch me 😝
There’s one of these up in the woods near my house been sitting since the 60’s I think I’ll go start it.
If you do make a video of it and share it with us.
I love seeing old engines that have not run in a
long time fire up again.
It was being half sarcastic the body and flat bed are still surprisingly good but the motor will never run again. I have some pics of it on my phone
I second Lincolntek
I’d like to but I have to show you pics the cowl and the valve cover was taken off 60 years ago. The sheet metal still looks good for some reason but the engine isn’t in any way shape or fashion short of calling NASA ever going to run again.
They made those flathead 6 cylinder engines into the 1970's. Parts are fairly easy to get.
Who remembers taking the points out of the distributor cap and filing them down because the faces had become pitted.....?
Nobody? Ok, who remembers distributors having ignition points in them to start with?
I do a old mechanic lol got them on my 49 Farmall tractor and just got a 75 Yamaha XS 650 that been sitting in a barn for 32 years running that uses 2 sets of points condensers and coils lol .
@@@peteloomis8456 That's ONE lol
Back when everything was about craftsmanship. People took pride in their work, something as simple and industrial as a truck was meant to last forever. When competition was about who could make tbe better vehicle, what features and simplicity could out weigh others, how to make them run as long as possible with minimum maintenance; and how even if caught in an accident, the truck will out survive the driver and could be put back into service immediately. When people talk about the American way and the good ole' days, this attitude of making a product of the highest quality and being proud of them as they out last their builders through the ages. Of course; that doesn't mean the past was perfect; just look at the use of asbestos and lack of safety features on that magnificent machine. But the proud spirit of ingenuity and pioneering important changes to become standard, to be proud to live in a place where you can choose from vast quality products and have each and every one of them out last you in a lifetime. That is the American spirit people talk about.
It’s not unheard of. I’ve gotten my 66 Chevy C10 airborne a few times. I’m genuinely surprised the alignment is still on point.
As the video started I kept hearing the theme from the Dukes of Hazard in my head.
Agreed:)Grea offroading..
Back when companies had pride and a drive to be the best at everything
This is the way dodge trucks should be made today!
Paul Salb it’s sad the Italians bought them
Sure. That truck had a 50 HP flat head that was geared so low it would do 10 MPH on a grade and 40 mph on level road. You could not take this truck on modern highways without getting rear ended.
Yeah, but no. I agree the FCA trucks today suck, but only compared to other, better modern trucks, which are all amazingly better than vehicles from back in the day. Not one of those trucks ever broke 100,000 miles (probably not 50) without an overhaul, they made no power and couldn't haul what a v6 half ton could today. They beat your teeth out and needed near constant maintenance, the bodies rotted because paint and galvanization was nowhere near what we have now, and probably got 3 or 4 miles per gallon. They had essentially no brakes, unsynchronized transmissions that were loud, rough, and a huge pain in the ass to drive and mechanical clutches that wore out in no time, took a hundred pounds of pedal pressure to depress, and made all kinds of crazy noises. Today you can buy a new truck that drives like a 90s sedan and drive it anywhere, hauling whatever, for 250,000 miles with just normal light maintenance and repairs. The only thing the old ones have on the new ones is that anyone who knows how can keep them running with tools that fit in their pockets, and even major stuff like changing an engine, transmission, etc. was something anyone could do in their yard, barn, or garage. Todays vehicles can't be built that way, tolerances have to be tighter and they have to have sophisticated control parts on them to meet emission and economy requirements, as well as be able to be trouble free for 200,000 miles. If you drove one of those old trucks today, you'd change your tune before you got out of the driveway.
The sinner Jim Whitney that was incredibly well said and you are absolutely correct
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney maybe they can do a mix of old tech and new tech. Like to older suspension old body design (can't beat a classic design) the frame (although I'm pretty sure frame tech hasn't changed much). However modern brakes, engine, transmission, and for standard transmission a modern hydraulic clutch. Just an idea will it happen probably not but a hopefully medium of older tech and newer tech. As you said those old engines drank fuel like it was going out of style and unsynchronized transmissions and heavy clutches are a pain and a richard said in the thread those old engines can't drive on a modern highway. Hell regular car reviews drove a deuce and a half and that was a 1960s model and that could only go 55 on flat ground and on a hill you have to put you hazard on because you are going maybe 25 on a hill. Maybe on a small town farm with les than 5k people and acres of farm land these old tech trucks are great because you aren't around people but on a highway with a 65mph or that bit of Texas highway were you can go 85mph these old tech trucks are a death sentence.
My grandfather would own no pickup but a Dodge.
I grew up in dodge country, the prairies.
Now you probably couldn’t give him 1 !!
Wise man.
So wtf happened dodge? Why have you let your standards decline ?
Owned by Daimler, now Fiat.
even before fiat. they were called shipping crates because the cummins engines were in mint condition when the trucks had holes rotted in the floor. although they did get much worse under fiat
Soon to be owned by Renault. What could possibly go wrong? @@gunsbeersmemes
Luis RP They did like all of the other once Great American manufacturers, cheapened the quality by farming out to the wrong entities,over paid executives and using all of the new technical GADGETRY to use as selling points to FALSELY compensate for lack of real durability due to using recycled foreign metals to make parts and components.THIS THE STATE OF AMERICAN COMPANIES NOW....
As cheap as new vehicles may appear on the surface, they are much less maintenance intensive and more economical than these old dinosaurs. Certain things are less durable, but everything is a tradeoff. People don't view trucks as tools anymore. If any company built them that way today they would be either too primitive or too expensive to sell.
Back when a Dodge was worth owning.
Still are.
keith cunningham Chrysler makes some of the worst quality cars in America. They are anything but reliable. Maybe the old ones were good, but the new ones sure aint
@@justenough730 Lean burn was crap. I know, I was there, and have the arthritis to back it up.
Ps. and crap begets crap.
What controls the "BURN"ing of the fuel/air mixture ? The lean burn _______ system was an early attempt at cleaning up emissions. This is TH-cam watch a video.
@Dirt Rider if you think anyone is gonna get in the Toyota death cage your on some good shit man. Really good shit.
Very good quality films! Haven’t seen some of these films in years! Keep up the good work of showing them.👍
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You can see a lot of this old school videos on YT,what about this:
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If they only carried this tradition on with today’s trucks! Not just dodge but all of them! Yesterday’s manufacturing failures were probably sadly better than today’s best
This is just plain old cool.
My 2005 Dodge RAM's check engine light came on because I watched this.
Love these trucks, the real backbone of the american army in the second world war. So effective the soviets copied the design and even used them as anti aircraft vehicles.
In October 1941, before the US entered WWII the Germans on the Eastern Front headed for Moscow captured many IH & Dodge trucks made and fitted with guns, built in the USA for the Soviets. This was one of the reasons Hitler declared war on the USA after Pearl Harbor. The USA was already building for LEND LEASE, war equipment for the planned Russian invasion of Germany in summer of 1941. Hitler struck 1st i.e. pre-empt.
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The hidden story you dont hear enough about those times...
david westerlun
That's because America GAVE them trucks as part of World War II Lend-Lease (along with food and other equipment). Khrushchev even said in his memoirs that it was a big part of what saved the Soviets from collapsing.
They got huge numbers of US 6 Studebakers which they often mounted rocket launchers
He forgot to mention Dodge would be owned by FIAT in the future.
Renault is gonna buy them from Fiat now.
I love it, thanks for making sharing this video!
make way Knievel, here come the test drivers of the 40`s
I'd love to own an old Dodge truck!!!!!!!
Hell i slammed the door to hard on a 2015 Dodge truck and the Check engine light and ABS light came on Dodge is done for🤔😂😂😂😂😂
How typical for Dodge:)
Owning a 1947 Dodge 1/2 ton pickup I can attest to he toughness of the beast....hauls more than my Dakota or F-150 and traverses the hill, as a 2 wheel drive, just as well as the 4 wheel drive Dakota.....that 218 flathead with a single barrel 'Ball & Ball' carb and it’s 3 speed transmission make it a fun little ride.
The test dummy probably was a paraplegic after that test drive wow ive owned 40s cars the slightst bump you feel in your spine lol
Jason Johnson really the video was a guy accidentally out of control
Jason Johnson I own a 42 & 48 Dodge truck and will say they ride very good for there age.
If you farm, and haul good hay! You want a Power Wagon! 🤘
Ive, been lucky enough to have had handfull of these old Flathead six mils in as many Dodge's M37, V41and 2 WM300's. Motors were simple, parts readily available, fairly reliable and easy enough that as a youngster in the 80s i could figure out how to work on them. Wish I had any one of those trucksRN except for buying fuel for them. I have a 1971 W200 still.
Ok Dodge/fiat. TAKE A LOOK At What a Truck SHOULD BE. For WORKING.
bansheemania I mean since fiat took over Ram trucks have had the best interior, and lowest repair, upkeep and initial price, all while keeping more Rams produced under FCA on the road. I believe Motor Trend reported that 99.6%(I maybe off a .1 or two) of rams produced under FCA are still on the road, while 95% of F series, and 94% of GM in the same timeframe. But damn the Italian pride in workmanship because it’s not American owned anymore.....
@bansheemania...except for the millions of people who DON'T need a work truck. I don't get people who say these things. Like manufacturers are forcing us to buy expensive trucks. They are not. They are making exactly what the truck buying public wants. If it doesn't fit YOUR idea of what a truck is or should be...fine, go spec out a work truck for yourself.
Michael Godsey what’s wrong with a tough truck and luxury.... oh that’s right nothing
Matthew Arnold finally someone who gets it
True fact. Had from the 70s till now. They went everyday. When the kids were growing up me n my wife both had Dodge trucks n they did n needed to b tough.
They speed up the frame rate and then tilt the whole video to make that truck look like it's an uphill beast. Check out the leaning poles and houses at 1:20. LOL.
Nice catch! ha!
Richard Scott good eyeballs!
Are you a detective or a lawyer?
I guess you've never seen houses, trees, and a generator sitting on an incline then? Cuz that's what it does look like.... I'm not denying they haven't messed with the video but where's the proof that they did...
Anonymous Anonymous it is a promotional video designed to sell. NOTHING should be taken as gospel.
When technology meets quality control meets what people want and bought
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The trucks shown (and the upright telephone) indicate the early 1930's. By 1940, Dodge trucks looked pretty different, and film audio quality had vastly improved.
Sounds like scary movie music at beginning.
It's what the driver is hearing
When having a Dodge meant something . Al Bundy would be proud of this truck .
Love these old flicks. Funny I still often use dry ice for similar purposes.
they where better in the 30's than they are now!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
10 times!
True. A new ram likely wont see 100k before self destruction
Well at least you think its funny :p
Hell everything was
I decided to keep my money instead of buying a new truck this year. I have an 05 f150 with the gutless, yet dependable 4.6. I'm gonna run her into the ground and buy another used one when it's shit.
Reminds me of the Bell System back in the old days, I was trained by an old timer that had 30 years experience. back then cable splicers did everything by hand twisting the wires together and hand soldering them. Switching equipment was all made up of mechanical relays that needed skilled men to maintain them.
yeah, my pa worked for Ma Bell in the 60's-early 90's. it was amazing going to the old bldng..a bazillion clicks and clacks and the hum of electricity! super cool. library style ladders on wheels to move up and down the racks and racks of mechanical relays. ..as kids, we even were given lil vials of mercury to play with..watch it slide effortlessly across the tile floors, ahaha! ofc we were careful to wash up if we touched it, especially before eating! there was a flat out bomb shelter with canned food & water, etc. the whole bldng was mega heavy duty, to be sure. a room full of massive, low volt each, wet cell batteries to supply electricity in case of an extended black out. these guys usually only worked a couple hrs a day, but they were there and on call for any emergency & kept the phones working. Pop got up in the wee hrs many a time and drove 30 miles through any weather..always in a MoPar (the 'junk cars' ppl troll about on YT & elsewhere were damn close to 100% reliable: from 1950's through the 90's.. Fury, Satellite, Ram, Daytona etc) as they have been for me, 60's through 2000's. Very few issues, but we drive our cars and keep the fluids topped off with high quality stuff, replace the occasional part with OEM or better items. That's the only way to maintain any car..not abuse/destroy it, then blame it for the rest of your life and lie about how this or that brand was 'so much better'. ppl put crap parts on their car, sell it, the next person blames the whole corporation..lol..it's crazy.
That is one hell of a rough ride!
I wish I could do this with my Honda
It's nice to know that at one time Dodge was a quality product. The same sure as hell can't be said today. We've had two (2) Chargers with the 5.7 hemi. Both suffered flat cam shafts and lifters shot. The 2012 ran over $3500 to repair, and the 13 wind up costing $4670 to replace same.Needless to say we traded them off and I would NEVER consider buying another one.
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I've heard that about them too I have a 96 CVPI with 289000 miles on the original engine and still running good those 4.6 engines are made well
My Ram has been awesome.. go ahead buy a Ford and see what happens..good luck
@@ramtrucks721 All I ever bought were Fords & Mercury. None ever let me down. The Dodge guys? All became Ford owners. Yeah... go ahead and buy a Dodge and see what happens! Giggles!
- Max Giganteum
“Built to take it, sounds bout right”
"Great buckets swing along, loaded with iron, lime and coke, that are fused in the furnace, at a temperature of 2800°."
'I know that, but what else?'
Been the country boys getaway vehicle since the 40’s
Why dont they sell new trucks like that? Show them doing those things?
Oh i know why, any truck built after 1990 or so would fail
They don't show that anymore, because people don't use trucks the same way that they did in the 40's...most trucks sold now are just luxury daily drivers.
Same reason engine manufacturers dont list their HP hours per gallon numbers since emission compliance came out. The average public would riot if they saw how much more fuel their 'environmentally friendly engine' uses to do the same work it's older non compliant versions was capable of.
A real cliffhanger!
I bet he gets the sale and changes his customer's shitty attitude in the process.
It hilarious that this 1940's commercial opens with the same kind of truck jumping shot you'd expect from a Ford Raptor commercial.
This video gives the employees at the NHTSA nightmares.
how about a 12 valve Cummins conversion
A car salesman has always been and will forever be a car salesman.
My grandfather had a '47 Dodge Power Wagon. Sure wish we kept it.
I've put my 2nd gen dodge through almost the same and it still drives like it never happened
Now that's back when they made a REAL truck. Not the b.s. they make now.
Excactly!!!!!..today there just big ugly plastic,pavement princess family haulers!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
You'd snap an axle like a twig on a modern car.
Modern cars are designed to be driven on roads, not in very bumpy terrain while carrying heavy loads.
My grandma loved hers...she was a bootlegger
When trucks were actually trucks!
Back when things were really still made to last.
I didn't realize they were using aluminum pistons back then
Henry Ford taught John and Horace Dodge to make cars, round about 1916-1917. They were making bicycles at the time. Later on, Dodge bought out Chrysler, which was bigger. Chev didn't build lorry's between 1942 and 1946. The ' 42 had the narrow bumper, and the ' 46 had the big bumper. Thanks for all the comments !
People don't know enough about cars now to get this
Those look like the 33-34 dodge trucks like my uncle has with the suicide doors
Exactly correct, 34 early 35 I had a 34, my Father had a late 35 without Suicide doors. Very
Rare.
At 4:50 no need for any safety equipment in the factory foundry. Just pour that 2,675 degree molten steel while wearing a pair of leather gloves and some eye glasses. I guess this was before the creation of OSHA.
When men were men.
natural selection
The awareness of danger guaranteed that these guys worked with skill, caution and focus.
Thinking you're safe would be the unsafest thing possible when doing such work. Be it by hand, or by machines and dozens of safety regulations
@@DolleHengst Sorry, I'm not buying it. OSHA was created because people often got maimed and killed on the job. Employers traded the employees' blood and pain for company profits. They still do whenever they can get away with it.
I thought I was watching a lost scene from Mr. Majestic for a minute there...
That dry ice method is crazy
I'd love to crash test one of them head on against a modern vehicle once! It would be like getting hit by a train!
Mr Squeak The Cat. Yes. You would be cut in half by the steering column in that old Dodge haha.
@@SladerRoberts Actually I'm from the midwest and I have seen a few accident with similar built older trucks. Most often they survived way better than the small car they hit.
The sad fact is crumple zones are only built to handle the mass of the vehicle they are apart of and are near worthless when hit with something far bigger and more solidly built.
In fact it's near the #1 reason people in modern vehicles having higher speed rear end collisions with heavy farm machinery die while the machine operator walks a way with little more than suppose and maybe a bit of whiplash.
Their vehicle literally can't take a hard hit into or from something not also designed to give proportionally, IE 'getting hit by a train'.
Yeah theres a reason for that. Sure your truck may be less deformed when you hit someone head on at 60mph but your organs will be begging for mercy when you hit the dash because the car didnt crumple at all and absorb any impact
@@mrsqueakthecat.8061 , this is the old "apples and oranges" argument.
Any vehicle hit by a much larger vehicle is going to have trouble completely protecting the passengers. The difference between old and new cars is in how a modern vehicle with crumple zones protects the passengers in all accidents.
The crumple zone decelerates the passengers at a slower rate, thereby protecting the internal organs and brain from damage as a result of momentum. When a vehicle goes from speed to a dead stop in a fraction of a second, the body stops, but the organs want to keep moving and slam into the body walls. Proper crumple zones minimize this effect, thereby lessening or eliminating organ and brain damage. It is like the difference between running into a brick wall and running into a brick wall with a layer of foam.
Another advantage of properly designed crumple zones, such as those used by Volvo since the ''70s, is that in the front, they redirect the engine down below the passenger compartment, instead of straight back into the passengers and in the rear, push the gas tank forward, under the car, rather than squashing it between the reearend and floor. In the early '80s, it was shown that a passenger in a Volvo had 4 less G-forces transferred to their body in a head-on accident than any other car of the time.
Of course, you also have the other modern safety features of airbags, which also provide a more controlled deceleration of the body, and seat-belts, which keep the passengers within the protective "cage" of the passenger compartment.
Now, the vehicles made before crumple zones transfer all energy of an accident to the passengers, resulting in massive internal organ and brain damage, due to the body stopping, but the organs continuing forward. The engines were noted for breaching the firewall if the frame collapsed and fuel tanks were routinely ruptured, which caused even more injuries or death.
A good example of the difference is a crash test done with, I believe, a mid-'60s Impala and a 2000s Impala; head-on, drivers side to drivers side. The people in the new car would have had minor injuries and the people in the old car would probably have died, or at least had life-threatening injuries.
Also, put a car of the '30s or even '60s in a major crash with a large truck and the deaths would be the same or worse for the simple reason of mass. Any time you have one vehicle with a huge mass advantage, it is almost impossible to protect the passengers in the other vehicle from massive injuries or death; it has nothing to do with crumple zones and in fact, the crumple zones would still give the passengers a better chance if the passenger compartment stays intact.
For that matter, put that '30s truck against a modern truck and see who walks away; the old truck driver or the driver of the modern truck with modern safety features.
If crumple zones didn't save lives, they wouldn't be in Formula 1 and NASCAR, as well as soft walls and other advances in driver protection.
@@mrsqueakthecat.8061 I too grew up in rural America back in the day where these sort of old trucks were still in use and I agree that the few I ever saw in a crash survived fairly well despite having minimal safely features simply because they were slow and built like a tank compared to most common cars.
At 60+MPH they were death on wheels but in their
Ford worked for the Dodge bro's for a brief period of his life. Ford had a strict life style enforced on his workers, diet, sleep, exercise. The Dodge boys would bring in cold brews on Fridays for their grunts. Healthy worker vs happy worker🤔
Ford never took a bailout. Granted they were able to refuse the money because of nefarious deals that propped them up but hey they saw the shit about to hit the fan so they got a poncho and sat there and laughed like they were front row at the end of a Gallagher show while all the other guys sat there like first timers. Lol I love and hate all of the big three for many reasons so I’m not really trying to start that argument but it would be fun.
@@Beer-can_full_of_toes excellent analogy🤗 I've owned Ford's and Dodges that could make lemonade on any given day, sad that the quality bolstered in this video doesn't exist anymore 😞 had an uncle who worked for GM as an engineer in the 60's and they sent him to junkyards to find out why certain parts weren't failing. This led them to engineer them to fail much sooner. He told me all of the big 3 did this.... Tragic....
peasants are revolting there’s no comeback money in a dependable tank of a vehicle.
@@Beer-can_full_of_toes true, so true.
its crazy. its actuallly still impressive today
Wow, it must have been fun doing that commercial
i feel sorry for the driver
Oh nobody care about truck drivers , trust me
Why they dropped the “Dodge Brothers” or “Dodge Bros.” We will never know. The “Dodge Brothers” name looks and sounds way more tough
well, we do know that they renamed them the "Dodge Boys"
Youthman Production
I think in the 70s their commercials referred to their ppl as The Dodge Boys
Peugeot didn't buy the rights to that trademark, stating "This obsolete term adds no value to the prestigious PSA reputation." [Automotive News, 5/20]
the dodge brothers both died from the spanish flu about a yr apart. walter chrysler then bought the company.
Surprising to see them using hardened valve inserts for the seats. That's something you usually only see in cylinder heads today.
The new RAM looks interesting