Dodge trucks were losing market share in the late 1970s as their big block engine options dried up and went away. Customers had to look elsewhere for trucks up to the task of hauling and doing other big jobs that took more power than a 360 V8 could provide. Enter: Cummins diesels a decade later and all was right with the world again. This 1993 Dodge Power Ram 350 4×4 Club Cab Dually Diesel 5-speed (a description almost as big as the truck!) is listed here on eBay in Boring, Oregon and the current bid price is $19,400, but the reserve isn’t met.
What a beautiful truck. I don’t know if people normally refer to huge tough trucks like this as beautiful, but I just did and I don’t regret it. The Dodge Ram, or Power Ram in this case, basically came back from the dead after losing customers to Ford and Chevrolet for not updating their trucks and getting rid of engines powerful enough to make commercial buyers want them. The Cummins deal breathed life into the line again, despite the body style being almost two decades old.
Not that pickups typically get updated that often, at least radically updated, so it was ok that Dodge pickups still looked basically as they did in 1972. This 1993 Power Ram 350 is the last year of this body style as Dodge did do a radical update for the 1994 model year, the same basic design that’s still around today over three decades later. The bed looks great with a sprayed-on bedliner material, which oddly looks similar to the underside that has also been sprayed with what appears to be a similar material. The paint looks perfect but the seller points out one area with some wear on the tailgate.
This truck appears in amazing condition, it’s hard to believe it was ever used for any real work but I bet it was. The Club Cab configuration is perfect for a lot of us who don’t need four doors but would like some extra interior space for gear or tools, and can also carry extra passengers when needed. The seats are positively luxurious for a pickup and everything looks as close to perfect as it can be. And that includes the five-speed manual shifter you see on the hump.
The engine isn’t quite as clean as the rest of the truck is, but it makes up for it in oomph. It’s a 5.9-liter Cummins inline-six turbodiesel with 160 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque. Backed by a five-speed manual and transfer case sending to all four wheels as needed, the seller says this example has had two owners and it sure looks great. How would you use this big Dodge?
I’m with you Scott. IT’S beautiful. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone seriously sptang on this truck with the intention of being of the last truck they ever were going to buy. These Cummins equipped Dodge trucks Especially with a stick sound amazing when running them through the gears. Its clean, great color combination, and does not look abused which is a rarity these days with older trucks. BTW, love the town name…. Boring, Oregon. Must’ve been a slow day when they named it that. Great find Scotty!!!
Wow, looks comfortable and capable.
Ha! Boring, Oregon,,,,too easy, and I see what passes as a sunny day in the PNW, although my son lives in Portland, and said the other day, they saw the sun,,,briefly.
As accurately described, it was the “Cummings” ( that’s right, you heard me) that changed everything. Anyone that had anything remotely to do with a diesel, had to have one. Wasn’t an instant hit in 1989, but by ’93, it was well known, this was the truck to have. The Ford and GM diesels just didn’t have the zing the Cummins had. Many of these became “horsey haulers”, or Hotshot tractors, but the bulk, I bet pulled an RV, like I imagine here. 100K is nothing for these, so it wasn’t used extensively. Someone sure loved their dually Dodge.
Why would you proudly misspell CUMMINS? I worked for Cummins NW Diesel years ago, and I guarantee a misstep like that would get you laughed out the door- if the guys were in a good mood.
The Cummins engine is legendary- the Dodge trucks of that era- not so much. My Dad had one, and he would agree, if he was still on the green side of the grass.
I had a customer who was definitely Slavic in heritage. He pieced together a fair sized farming operation over the years. His primary form of transportation was a Dodge-Cummins 3/4 ton. I remember him stopping in and making an appointment to tuneup his “Cumminks.” Ol’ “Pishka”was quite a character. Good customer who never questioned a bill from me.
The neighbor has a Dog Truck, just like this one, save for the extra cab. You can hear her rattling down the road from a mile away. He uses it to haul his riding lawnmower over to his mother in laws. And, he drives it year round, which in NE Ohio, is sometimes a death sentence for old iron.
If you were towing in the 90s these were the truck to have. Stick shift was required as the automatic was the weak link. This is a handsome unit. They do sound so good going up through the gears. You hear them before you see them.
If you were towing in the 90s these were the truck to have. Stick shift was required as the automatic was the weak link. This is a handsome unit. They do sound so good going up through the gears. These forced Ford and GM to mount a turbo to their diesels.
I’d like the thumbs up to work but I’d like the post comment to work more consistently too.
I’d like them to lose the intrusive commercials that get in the way of the content. I get it, BF needs to eat, but there are better ways to put up ads.
This is beautiful, Will last 4 ever, I would use it for work daily, heavy loads or tows are nothing for these trucks. Just only negative , no doors in back, I really like the doors, not like new stupid 4 door trucks, extra cab small doors are great, i foot bed is also the one you need, not a 4-5-to 6-1/2 foot bed.
Had a 1996 Regular cab dually that I bought new off the lot. Daily driver and race trailer tow vehicle for 9 years. Sold it to a couple that wanted to tow a large trailer to BC from Ontario with all their stuff in it and they were worried that the truck couldn’t do the job. I laughed, told them it could pull their entire house to BC! They bought it on the spot. It was a great truck but would shake your fillings out without a load in the back.
Replaced it with a new 2005 Cummins, quad cab, 2wd, 6 speed manual that I ordered the way I wanted it. Kept that for 14 years, was my daily driver in winter for my commutes from Mississauga to downtown Toronto (you really need to want to drive a standard to do that every day). Was a huge upgrade in power from the previous one. The ONLY thing that went wrong was that stupid 2 piece flywheel – hard to keep clutches in it. Swapped that out for an aftermarket flywheel and clutch system, and never had to touch it again.
Great trucks, I miss them both
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I had a customer with the identical twin to this truck. He was a “Billie Big Rig Wannabe,” or like sidewalk-commandos are to bikers. He wanted a genuine Jake Brake. I showed him some information on exhaust brakes but he wanted to hear the “blow-down” of a Jake. I thought, “Watch out, Society, this guy just might have the capacity to reproduce.”
Anyways, he also wanted to turn that miniscule Bosch VE pump up to 400 hp. I told him that the internals of the pump were stressed to the max at 160. We arbitrarily set them to 180 but that was where we drew the line. I heard of guys setting them to 235 but they self-destructed about the third time you stepped on it. But this guy was hard to convince.
He eventually traded the ’93 off for a much newer truck with the 6.7, electronic controls, the EGR and DEF. Got everything disabled then power-chipped it to NMD and proceeded to smoke out every vehicle behind him. My wife and I were in Great Falls one day and watched him obscure every vehicle behind him at every traffic light. That lasted until someone either reported him or the police caught him. Next thing we knew, there were (2) police cars on the scene, plus a ramp truck in front, winching the perp on. Never saw him or his truck again…
My first Cummins was a 1996 extended cab 8’ bed and 5 speed 2wd in 2005. My similar sized Chevy got 14mpg, the Cummins was 21mpg without modifications. I was sold on Cummins. I couldn’t sneak up on anything
Each of the 5 Dodge trucks owned had its own “persona”, but the Patriot Blue ‘02 with the 6 spd stick was a real favorite-even if at times it’d demonstrate what a washing machine full of walnuts would sound like..
Auction update: this one supposedly ended because there “was an error in the listing.”