Dodge offered buyers quite a few engine options for its D-Series pickups, from a 170-cu.in. slant-six to a 426 Hemi and everything in between. I know what most of us would want, at least for a weekend truck and one for shows and it isn’t a 170 slant-six. The seller has this 1974 Dodge D-100 posted here on craigslist in beautiful Colorado, between Fort Collins and Boulder, and they’re asking $18,500. Here is the original listing, as I plan on buying it, getting kicked out of the house, and having to live in the back of it…
The third-generation D-Series trucks were made from late 1971 for the 1972 model year until 1993. In 1981, the Ram Series was born and that evolved into its own brand today. I believe this truck is Sunstone Orange and any vehicle that’s orange catches my eye, especially when it has between 550 and 600 horsepower. They say it’s the original paint and it looks like it could use a few hours with a buffer, but it looks rock solid and that’s really all that matters, isn’t it?
I love the sleeper look here, and I don’t mean as in the topper/cap where a person (me) could sleep on weekend camping trips or if they buy one too many vehicles and get kicked out and need a spot to bed down. The wheels are new and are said to be “New Mopar 15×8 Police wheels and Matching Vintage Cop Caps”, very cool. If I’m reading the huge list of upgrades and new parts correctly, the front tires are new Coopers, and the rear tires (?) are Nitto. Those are not inexpensive shoes, kudos to the seller for going all out here. As far as nailing down a ballpark value, Hagerty is at $14,900 for a #3 good-condition truck and $25,700 for a #2 truck with a factory 440. This one is not standard, but then again, the truck isn’t in excellent cosmetic condition either. I’d bet the seller has more than $18k into this one.
The interior is where a person would spend most of their time and money, but the cracked dash is the only really big thing that I can see. JustDashes.com isn’t an inexpensive source, but it may be the best there is for dash restoration. Or, a junkyard in the Pacific Northwest? The seat is easy and the seller is offering an original set of bucket seats with the tracks if a person wants to lose a bit of the sleeper’ness by adding bucket seats. I’d just redo the bucket seat, but that’s me. We don’t see inside the cap/topper, I hope it’s comfortable back there, and being a long bed, it’s more than enough room for a 6′-5″ person to live for a while.
This beautiful beast is a 440-cu.in. OHV V8, and has a list of modifications and specs longer than the number of zeros in the national debt, if that’s even possible. Please read the seller’s listing to see what has been done to this truck. The list is so long that when I made a screenshot, I would have had to zoom so far out that it would have been microscopic-sized text so I cropped it. They say it has between 550 and 600 horsepower and as someone who has recently owned an SUV with around 550 hp for years, I can attest that it’s a fair amount of power, especially in a truck that’s probably 1,000+ pounds lighter. It has a new TorqueFlite 727 built to 750hp standards and the list of modifications is amazing. They do mention that there’s a small main seal leak. Have any of you built a sleeper like this D-100?
“Sleeper”, Scotty? Good pun! A most appropriate double entendres as that’s where I too would be sleeping were I to come home and try to explain to my CFO that it cost almost $20,000 but was a real bargain…
And it gets 35 mpg,right?
Close. 3.5
ha ha!
No anti-spin rearend ?
Now Stan……
Where would the fun be in that???? Of course….. The actual thought of being able to put all that power down to the pavement would make a lot of sense.
I was not aware that a 426 Hemi was available for these trucks. It was discontinued mid year for cars in 1971 due to emissions and insurance. Was it still an option for the trucks?
No Roland. Never was a 426 Hemi a factory option in a truck. However a 426 wedge was an option in the ’64-’65 sweptline series.
I believe you’re correct, Roland, Harry, and Jay. A wedge is not a Hemi, my bad.
Good catch Harry! A hemi pick up would have become pretty famous, esp these days.
It was not available in trucks at all
Yep what Harry said
What a waste of a motor in this ugly truck!
If Farmtruck was a Mopar this is what it would look like.The orange with a white camper packing a big surprise under the hood,very similiar.Farmtruck is packing about a 1000hp with 3 stage nitrous that helps it make about 1600hp.very much street legal like this Dodge….
I remember the 426 Wedge being available in the mid 60’s but never the 426 Hemi
Yep exactly what I need something to get me tickets for speeding or doing burnouts
I like it alot. It could do a surprisingly spectacular burnout after cars and coffee !
Scotty, I’m right there with you as far as “needing this truck (like ea hole in my head).” I don’t know how anyone would be able to afford the gasoline to operate it (let alone me just driving it back home, to the South).
That’s a nice build, but I’d have to drop back to a close quench, high compression, Engle Cammed, 400 Mopar Big Block (larger bore, with a short 3.38” stroke) that could rev like no tomorrow. Either way, 12 mpg would be tough to swallow on a daily driven basis and I doubt that a Gear Vendors Overdrive would help very much except to slow the engine revs.
A Mopar Farm truck clone…with a lot less horsepower, but cool none the less.