1942 Dodge "Job Rated" 1/2 Ton Pickup

1942 Dodge Other Pickups Description

A very rare offering in excellent condition! An older frame-off full numbers matching restoration.Why rare? Because the United State's entry into World War 2 happened December 7th 1941 and the civilian automotive manufacturers were given until February 1942 to to dump their civilian stock of civilian vehicles and retool for the "War Machine"
In the 1942 model year, automobile production was capped at barely one million units when civilian manufacturing was suspended early in February. Volume had topped 3.6 million vehicles in 1941, a figure the car biz would not match again until 1949. Following Pearl Harbor, the industry’s entire output was focused on military production, creating what President Franklin Roosevelt called the “arsenal of democracy.” It was the most awesome industrial war machine the world had ever seen.
Of the handful of passenger cars manufactured in January ’42, many used painted rather than plated exterior trim, as chromium was declared a strategic material. Extremely rare today, these vehicles are known as blackout or victory models. Starting on January 1, sales of all new vehicles were strictly rationed, with the remaining inventories stockpiled and slowly meted out over the balance of the war for military and strategic civilian use.
So this vehicle was one of the very last pre-war civilian Dodge pickups! Have a look at the build record - it cites this truck's delivery date was January 20th 1942.
As mentioned above, the is a NUMBERS MATCHING vehicle and to even go further in that direction, I replaced the distributor, carburetor, starter and fuel pump so that all of these sub-assemblies model numbers would be 100% accurate per the 1942 Dodge Parts Manual. I also added an original oil filter assembly. So to the best of my knowledge, it is in a totally original configuration.
And you ask "What kind of wood is in the bed?" The answer is the former owner had the boards custom cut from a log of CURLY CALIFORNIA BLACK OAK.
It has an entirely new brake system. The original set of four wheels plus another set of four wheels are available for free. Its a solid running truck and it could use an engine rebuild at some point.
Here is a deal hard to beat, the Hula Lady in the last photo is included!
I took a trophy away from the first 4 shows I exhibited this truck in.