What do you get when you cross a Ford CLT front end with a Dodge 3500 back half? You get this interesting hodgepodge truck that was built to pull a horse trailer. And what would you call it? A Fodge, a Dord, or some other strange way you could combine the names? This vehicle was last used at least 15 years ago. The seller needs it to be gone, but you can’t work on it before you carry it off. This one-of-a-kind dually is available near Columbus, Ohio, and here on craigslist for $3,500 firm. Thanks for this wild tip, Chuck Foster!
The seller’s father needed a truck that could pull a trailer full of racehorses. Rather than purchase an existing vehicle that met that need, dad took a wrecked Dodge 3500 (the seller thinks it’s a 1996) and stuck a modified Ford CLT front end to it (also thinks it’s a 1983). The end result was titled as the Ford, probably because the Dodge had been totaled. The Dodge part is said to be all there except for the front suspension and steering that came from the Ford.
We’re told the Fodge (or Dord) has a Cummins 12-volt electrical system. It doesn’t run and there’s no indication as to what it will take to change that. If you air up the tires, it will roll onto whatever trailer you can find that will support this package. The truck was parked after the last racehorse was sold and it’s apparently been in that spot ever since. Be ready to carry this thing off when you hand over the money as the seller specifies no on-site work can be done. If you bought this truck, what would you do with it?
The things we get to see on Barn Finds never cease to amaze.
What a grand driving experience this must have been in it’s heyday. It’s stately presence surely disarmed many a fair lass as well.
The polar opposite of a chick magnet. A rolling birth control device.
Rick,
Have you seen the sleeper?
To ojr,
Who could get to sleep in that?
Price reduced to 2500. Never saw that coming.
one mans trash…..
Is sometimes still trash.
Some things you can’t unsee…..
$3500 has become this decades $50. I can’t believe that the seller has the audacity to even post this thing.
The engine is worth at least $2000
The audacity of hope.
You mean the stench of desperation.
Don’t know if its a misprint here or if they lowered the price $2500 firm I think the engine and trans will command that price put it in something else and scrap the rest
My eyes hurt.
It probably has a 1st gen Dodge Cummins engine which is worth something if it is any good, plus trans etc. Hard to get to $3500 with all the transport cost.
If I drove this I would have to wear a paper bag over my head with holes for my eyes and mouth. hahaha 🥸🥸 or 🤡🤡
This dude failed high school auto body repair class.
or maybe he never took the class?
I’ve seen some Franken-vehicles already but dang… this thing takes the cake.
Did this hillbilly show up to Churchill Downs in this contraption???
I sure hope so. LOL
what do you call it ? FUGLY !
My Gawd! What a Frankentruck!! Looks like old plow lights stuck on those “fenders” to serve as headlights. Looks like lots of other interesting parts from the depths of the odds and ends boxes, drawers, and shelves too.
I can imagine the conversation the seller’s father must have had with his wife as he came in from the garage covered in grease and dirt…
Father: “Good news and bad news Honey! The good news is I finally cleared out all those old parts I had lying around the garage and shop!”
Wife: “That’s nice Dear. So what’s the bad news?”
But it must have failed miserably as a horse hauler. Giving the horses’ sense its due, one look at that and they’d have been so terrified as to not want to load!
So all jokes aside, to cobble all that together admittedly there is a certain “mad scientist” resourcefulness, ingenuity, and technical ability that does deserve some respect and credit.
Can you imagine being a “racehorse” and pulling up to the paddocks behind this?? The other horses must have flashed the stink-eye and turned their back on them. On the other hand, this could be a ruse to give the other horses a false sense of security. Would make a great underdog (under-horse) movie for Disney…
If the price was .01 cents it wouldn’t be worth hauling it away.
There’s that one saying, Frickin Old Rebuilt Dodge, and a buddy came up with Fecal Oval Rectal Deposit, first thing that came to mind.
Too much moonshine, and access to power tools!
its for sale on CL because the scrapper wouldn’t take it…
When Ford introduced the Louisville line of trucks in 1970, thought sure the cab would be the basis for the next generation of F-100s, as Ford had done in the Fifties and Sixties. Pretty sure this is not what Ford would have produced, but finally got to see someone “try”.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8KZUxnZJ_8A/maxresdefault.jpg
Wow? This is the kind of Mad Max creation that the California DOT live for, just waiting for it to cross the state line.
It’s a 1983 Hapsburg!
The comment about yesterday’s $50.00 special and today’s prices doesn’t apply on this one. $50.00 will turn into $50.K to put this one right. I wouldn’t take it if he paid me. Too much work for too little value. Buy a doge truck that needs a motor and trans. and swap them and scrap the rest.
Must of been what they used to take the horses to the glue factory
If I were a horse in a trailer being towed to the glue factory behind this truck, I would be begging the driver to take any and all shortcuts.
I was wondering if I would ever see anything uglier than a Pontiac Aztek . . I don’t have to wonder anymore . .
It’s certainly all Fodged up.
My eyes!
neither were too good in the 1st instance. The try to make better almost made it. The van / pick up is only a lill better. It’s so weird (centurion) I like it. This might B a variation on the theme (hint, turn off sound):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMVypicn-M
The horses begged to be shot.
It’s a Ford CLT cabover cab, not a Louisville.
As such, the marrying of the two required a hood to be fabbed.
Or not!
The semi bumper with the old car ??? extrusions and the Fisher Plow lights tend to up the fascination of the ladies, but the real action would be in the sleeper bunk.
WOW eve has the rare from fender skirts! Rear fender skirts are ugly enough on the front is just terrible that front end is really amateurish but to each their own not sure the butt for every seat will ever apply to this one
As they love to say on Barn Finds –
“ONE OF ONE”
OMG!! The Fox Tail and Fuzzy Dice are missing!
A LOT of comedy material for Jeff Foxworthy here! Even true rednecks wouldn’t be seen in this, much less driving it.
I don’t like it, but still think it is nice the guy could and did make what he wanted.
Some do what they need to. The owner/ modifier of this Diamond T needed more power and added an engine to the front. The photo is from the Del DeYoung (rip) collection.
The Ford COE/Dodge PU reminded me of the DT.
This was parked after selling the last race horse? One has to wonder if the horses were Frankenhorsed together as well, would have thought seller would have bought an easier on the eyes rig to transport the remaining ones. Can you imagine your newly purchased thoroughbred in a trailer or standing in the back of this thing pulling up to your farm? Damn Wilbur😎
Oh FFS, just drive it into the ocean or a deep river and be done with it. If ever I saw a warning against taking meth, this is it.
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At first glance , I thought somebody has slaughtered another retired USPS mail delivery vehicle to make a Rat Rod . .
Many, many, many, many beers were held for this creation. Yeesh!
Nah, this is a meth creation.
I’ll tell what you get, an abortion, that’s exactly what you have here