Commentary: During this proving there was a very clear progression from indignation, anger and frustration, to the feeling of apathy, indifference and depression, and. Invasion of the Star Creatures Year of Release: 1962 Running Time: 70 Minutes DVD Released By: MGM Home Entertainment Directed By: Bruno VeSota Writing Credits. Dodge AF/X Hauler Replica. Journey Through Hemiland - Hauling A (FX) in 1. Pete Haldiman P. E. In 2. 00. 3 I finished my 1. Plymouth 1. 0. The car was finished as a “from the factory” white, cross- ram, Hemi car with a 7. The Solar cooler goes wherever you do; Save Time. No need to stop for ice, just pack up and go! Plug right in and let the sun provide a. The Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, Northern Germany. This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event 1962: Reagan Warns that Medicare Will Lead to Socialism, Destruction of American. This is the official web site for the Natchitoches High School Class Of 1962. After. Ronnie Sox died in 2. Dean Miller, suggested that I should paint the car in Sox and Martin colors as a tribute to Ronnie. The original Sox and Martin altered wheelbase no longer exists so my car could not be confused with Ronnie’s original. Since Dean is a great car painter by trade, and he offered to do the work for free, I had a deal I couldn’t pass up. The first race for the altered wheelbase Mopars was at Bee Line in Arizona on January 2. The Sox and Martin car was one of five at the race. I decided to paint my car in the same scheme as the Sox and Martin Plymouth at that race, their first outing with a Mopar. I poured through all my old magazines and stuff to see how Ronnie’s car looked at Bee Line so that I could do a faithful recreation. I happened upon a photo of the Sox and Martin altered wheelbase sitting on a Dodge ramp truck. The truck was towing a trailer with their Hemi Super Stocker on board. This photo was taken near an uncompleted bridge and was in black and white. The photo wasn’t much help as far as my paint scheme research was concerned but I do remember thinking “Boy that’s a Big Truck. I don’t know nothing about big trucks.” Well, here we are several years later and guess what, I now have a re- creation of that “Big Truck” sitting in my garage. After being a Hemi car guy for 4. The following is a brief recap of my “truckin’” education. My notice of the Sox and Martin Dodge car hauler might have been just another Senior Moment except that I happened upon a photo of a truck owned by my favorite guy, Dick Landy, a couple of weeks later. Dick’s truck had the aluminum ramps affixed to the sides of the bed next to the car. This was the same distinctive arrangement I had noticed on the Sox and Martin truck. One truck was from North Carolina and the other was from the Valley. I sensed the presence of Ma Mopar. Sure enough more digging produced photos of the haulers of Cotton Owens, Mr. Norm, the Ramchargers and Butch Leal. The Good Guys premiered on Wednesday, September 25th, 1968 (the first episode broadcast was not the pilot, which aired as the third episode on October 9th). Talk with your fellow tone freaks on the web's liveliest (and friendliest!) tone forum. All are welcome, from seasoned pros to absolute beginners.The trucks were nearly identical crew cab Dodges. They appeared to be 1. D6. 00s. From a story in Super Stockers in Action, April 1. I learned that the beds were made by Baker Body in North Carolina. At the back of the bed was the sign “BAKER”. The Super Stockers article has a photo of Cotton Owens hauling a 1. Dodge. I would venture to guess that Owens (or the Pettys who were in North Carolina) probably had the prototype for all the subsequent Mopar haulers. Did Owens design this bed or was it a standard Baker Body item? What I think happened was that if you were one of the eleven teams “chosen” to get a 1. WOW” factor at the drag strips. By today’s standards those 1. In the day though they were every bit as radical and as distinctive as the AFX cars they were hauling. Today Dodge only makes Ram pickups in the 1. Dakotas. In the 1. Dodge made a vast array of trucks ranging from A1. Each line was given a distinctive alpha numeric designation such as A1. D7. 00, L6. 00, C9. NL1. 00. 0 etc. Generally the letter(s) indicated the style of the cab and the general layout of the truck. The “A” trucks were the small vans and pickups (Little Red Wagon). Dodge also made an “S” series of school buses and a “M” series of motor home chassis. The “numeric” part of the truck designation indicated the weight carrying capacity (roughly) of the vehicle. Dodge put these numbers into three categories: Light duty 1. Medium duty 4. 00, 5. Heavy duty 7. 00, 8. These designations were rough because it was possible to get optional rear ends, springs, etc. My take on the AFX car haulers was that the basic truck was a “Medium duty”, D6. Baker” bed. When I initially took notice of the Sox and Martin car hauler, its size completely put me off because it seemed way outside my area of expertise. However, upon further study I realized that the basic cab on a 2 1/2 ton D6. D1. 00 pickup. The D6. I decided it would be interesting to have a 1. AFX but that finding an original would be a miracle. I gathered some sales brochures, service manuals and parts books and I was off and running. Several good omens appeared immediately. First, the D6. 00 used hydraulic brakes not air therefore a special driver’s license wouldn’t be needed. Second, the trucks used normal gasoline engines such as the 3. Third, I found a truck salvage yard about 2. Riverside Truck and Auto, Greeley, CO). Fourth, at our local truck show put on by a chapter of the American Truck Historical Society (ATHS), a chance conversation found a 1. D5. 00 with a two door cab for sale. Fifth, again by chance I learned that a nearby AACA member had a 1. D2. 00 crew cab for sale. I bought both trucks and I was officially a “truckee”. This 1. 96. 3 D2. AFX haulers used. These fenders were too small for the 1. The cab is connected to brackets on the frame by only six bolts. I took the two door cab off the D5. I started to have a little apprehension about the whole project. The truck was rated for over 2. GVW therefore it had some humungous spring packs, a two speed rear end (with 5. I know all this stuff was state- of- the- art in 1. I am more familiar with. The Ramchargers apparently could cruise at 8. I wasn’t so confident about the drivability of the thing I was working on. In general it seemed that you didn’t really need a 2 1/2 ton truck to carry a 3. The D2. 00 crew cab was mounted on a frame that had “kick ups” over the axle to allow the truck to be relatively low. The D5. 00 frame was straight except near the front. The D2. 00 frame was 3. D5. 00 was only 3. The thing was on a 1. Dodge chassis and it had the same basic dimensions as the D5. I was working on. My D5. 00 used 2. Budd wheels with 5 mounting studs. These were the “split ring” type for use with tube- type tires. The motor home had 1. I noticed the transmission: it was a cable actuated 7. The data plate said the engine was a 4. The rear end was a Dana “7. HD” dually with 4. The front end had disc brakes. Front and rear sway bars. Width of frame 3. That’s a GVW required of 1. Hey this stuff could be used to “modernize” my hauler. I bought the wheels, transmission, and both axles. I got the front and rear axles all cleaned up and bolted them to my D5. The more I thought about the RV and the more I learned, the more convinced I became that a complete running RV chassis would solve many problems and speed my project up. I was trying to build a functional hauler modeled after those used by Sox and Martin and Landy. I wasn’t interested in a “Concourse” restoration of a vintage truck. Within a week another chance encounter found me paying $1. Diplomat motor home. The 4. 40 / 7. 27 combo tells you it’s a Dodge. Nearly all of these big RV’s used the 5 inch round, amber turn signal lights at the front just like all the 1. D” series trucks. Dodge put a number such as “M5. The RV manufacturer may have used the number as the VIN number for the RV or, more likely, made up his own. A “M5. 0 - - - - ” is a M5. GVW of 1. 4,0. 00 pounds. A “M6. 0 - - - - ” is a M6. GVW of 1. 6,0. 00 pounds. Within three weeks the RV was stripped of its body. Remove the RV body (handle that black water tank with care!) and your left with this. Dodge supplied the chassis pretty much as seen here. The rig could be driven into the RV factory as a running vehicle. The propane tank and outriggers for support of the floor were added by the RV company. The floor over the engine, front bulkhead, gauge cluster, shifter and steering wheel all came from Dodge. AC, PS, PB, cruise, front discs, sway bars front and rear, and 8. And a month after that the crew cab was sitting on its new home, a Dodge M5. D2. 00 crew cab meets RV chassis. Here the wheel base is the unmodified 1. The larger front fenders are from a D5. Note the outstanding patina. Throughout the build I never touched the engine, transmission, rear end, radiator, exhaust system or wheels. If I had kept working on my original D5. I wouldn’t have gotten it running in another year or two, it probably wouldn’t have run nearly as nicely as the ex- motor home does and it would have cost a lot more money. I’ll spare you most of the construction details but I’ll list some of the highlights at the end of this article. There is one topic however, that I think is important to dwell upon for a moment and that is the tire / wheel / rear axle combination. Since I have taken up the Dodge truck hobby I’ve been to three ATHS national meets. At each there were around 6. Dodges. The cabs range from the 1. White, to the 1. 95. Mack, to the 1. 96. Peterbilt, to the 1. Kenworth, etc. While these trucks are pretty cool and probably run well with their 1. Ford Diesels and A/C, I must comment that they look like low- riders to me on their 1. The proportions are all wrong. I expect to see these things hop at any minute. And that is why I am just overjoyed that I stumbled onto the motor home chassis idea. The 1. 96. 5 Dodge car haulers used 2. The late 1. 97. 0’s Dodge motor homes used the same bolt patterns but with 1. From the side, my 1. RV wheels closely resemble the 1. An old cab on 1. 9. Furthermore, with the one ton dually chassis you get the load capability of a 3. Light duty” truck whereas with the 6. RV you can actually haul a serious load. Us Mopar folks are indeed fortunate that we have a range of vehicles not available to Ford and Chevy people. We can easily keep our trucks “All Dodge”. First: 1. 99. 2 Dodge 2. Wheel 1. 6 inches, Tire 3. Load 2. 80. 0 pounds. Second: 1. 97. 7 Dodge M5. Wheel 1. 9. 5 inches, Tire 3. Load 3. 37. 5 pounds. Third: 1. 96. 3 Dodge D6. Wheel 2. 0 inch (Firestone), Tire 3. Load 3. 55. 0 pounds. The 2. 0 inch wheel would have been used on the 1. D6. 00 haulers. The RV wheel (center) looks more “correct” than the standard pickup wheel (left) used by many fabricators when they put a big truck body on a one- ton dually pickup chassis. There is also a 1. RV wheel with the same 6 stud pattern as the 2.
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