I like how it’s a Dodge promo but they highlight the important work and function features and still gave credit to Ford and Chevy when they had the better feature. Nowadays they put each other down and just show you the interior and the tech features that costs more.
There's no such thing as truth in advertising any more, businesses and their customers generate their own truths. There's no reason to acknowledge the strengths of your competition when they aren't a part of the reality one has chosen to live in
I'm so sick of talk of "interiors" on today's vehicles, especially trucks...interior shouldn't matter that much on a truck,and besides, I don't consider a bunch of plastic, bucket seats and consoles, dash screens, cup holders much of an "interior" on a truck anyways...give me a thick vinyl bench seat, column shift(unless it's a 4 or 5 speed manual), and a rubber floor mat...that's all the "interior" you need in a pickup....
I have a 1968 F100 my dad bought it brand new in 68, still have it,got a 390 in it , came with a 360 when it was new, had about 370,000 plus miles on it. I put the 390 in it about 17 years ago, truck has now 435,000 miles on it and the old boy still runs great. I'm fixing it up for my son's twin boys. I was seventeen then and I'm just about seventy, I'm just glad the old truck can't talk I would be in some trouble.
None could beat Ford back then, It's the world's best selling pickup today,And holds the record for being the most stolen vehicle today 2022, F-150... Dodge was better than a Chevy,Gm trucks too soft-built and wouldn't pull much of shit,318 would beat Ford 302 and Chevy 307,but that 307 was fast as hell for it's small size,I like them all though,I grew up in them,It's American 🏈🏈🏈, Tailgating....
I like 'em all, but my favorite is the Chevy..IMHO, the best pickup body style ever made..not that the others were bad...one thing I don't like about the Ford, though, is the single-wall cargo box on the upper part....
Oh yea! In 1978, I bought a new Scout II TERRA Pickup Truck, loaded Select Edition with 345/4 brl, dual exhaust, 3:51 Trac Loc, 2 speed HD Transfer, with HD 727 Automatic. In Canyon Black with gold steel off road wheels, 32” GoodYear Tracker Tires, gold stripes down the sides from marker light to marker light and white removable Cab Roof! That truck was a beast! Could tow my brothers 10,000 boat&trailer down to the bay at the beginning of summer and back in the fall, like it wasn’t there! Could haul the rated at 2,000 lbs in the bed without bottoming out on all but the biggest bumps. Great truck!
Exactly,...a major reason I don't want/don't need a modern truck...other reasons are the prices, the really thin sheetmetal(or aluminum), really high bedsides you can't reach over, complicated electronics, and(IMHO), terrible styling....
Have to add you sound like one of them pathetic little punks with 100grand in your 4x4 with a 5grand paint job with out a scratch on it because you have to garage it if it even looks like it might rain
I agree with CJ Colvin . The new trucks of today are to big and overpriced . Can't get a manual shift . To much computerized technology that I don't need or use .
Well … no. 1970s 2500$ would be in today money some $17.000$. So the truck would still be relatively cheap compared to modern trucks, but technological also quite primitive. I e.g. don't want to sit in such a thing even in a 25 mph collision. (See e.g. here: www.usinflationcalculator.com)
@@Slazlo-Brovnik your being afraid of the past and constantly bettering the modern era. Which isn't true, you just weren't around to drive the trucks back in 1970, so you think by your guesses that it doesn't work very well compared to a modern day truck. The best truck I ever had was a 1937 Hudson Terraplane Pickup, worked fine, looked fantastic and elegant, and easily started and stopped. If you drove 40 in that automobile or any other you would survive, in modern day if you drove 40 into that automobile you would be in for a hell. Modern day does their damnest to advertise today in only good light. Back then it was all the arrangements from fantastic, to bad, to worst. You will never find pictures of crashes in current times in advertisments, only a cancer patient and black family thrown in there that are smiling for no reason, oh and testing ground conditions like the artic to the desert which doesn't show anything.
@@artdecotimes2942I am afraid of the past? What should that even mean? But okay: I am 60 now and learned driving around 1975 on a then already old VW T1 flatbed from 1963. Got my Driving license 1978. So I do remember the old times, I drove the old cars. Regarding your statements about vehicle safety - those are ... sorry ... just ridiculous. Modern cars are so much safer. Just compare the number of deaths due to traffic accidents which are way lower today than in the 70ties (no matter what country) although we have much more cars and denser traffic today. If you are seriously trying to tell me that a 1937 car is safer than any modern car, then we are already done - because that's just nonsense. You can even find here on UA-cam a video with a head on offset crash test between a 2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air It shows that the driver in the much bigger Bel Air would be most likely dead or at least severely hurt, while the Chevy Malibu is way better of and had good chances to just walk away. And a 2009 Chevy Malibu is 11 years old today and not even state of the art. Here ist the link for you: ua-cam.com/video/fPF4fBGNK0U/v-deo.html And of course advertising at no time in history showed crashed cars and always showed products in good light. It's Advertising! But what they do today is crashtests and you can find a lot of footage e.g. here on you tube. Just compare how older cars compare to todays cars.
The Dodge truck body style started in 1961! The Ford truck body style started in 1967! The Chevrolet truck body style started in 1967 too! Yes, you are right! The Dodge was over due for a new look!
More of the Sweptlines are being restored. They have a nitch fan base that's growing, more body patch panels are available. But trim and grilles are hard to find.
I love the old cars and trucks but they can’t hold a candle to these new ones in any way. Fully boxed frames, huge towing and payload capacity, twice the horsepower with better fuel economy. Start and run perfectly in any weather or altitude. Low maintenance. Luxury liner comfort. Then again you pay for all that. Adjusted for inflation those old trucks in the video were $23,000. A mid-level model today is $50k.
Had a ‘75 D-100 Adventurer w/slant 6 & 3 speed - loved it for 4 years and just under 100,000 trouble free miles. Now have a ‘97 Dakota I have had for 23 years and still under 100,000 miles.
@@cbmichels6210 Very popular now, for sure. GM is pretty frustrated that so many of its products of this era are restored down to the bolt, and yet many people can't identify their current products, other than say a few models like Silverado. GM was at the top of their game in 1970.
I had a fairly detailed plastic toy Chevy C-10 with cap on the bed when I was in 1st Grade. It was yellow and white with white cap. Would be nice to have it today.
I drove a 1960 6 cylinder good truck and I bought a 1967 dodge 3/4 four speed v 8 camper special very dependable truck and easy to work on it. Now all vehicles look beautiful but they're nothing but very expensive plastic .
So this is when you bought a truck you got a truck. Not some rolling network of computers on wheels. There were no body control modules, crash avoidance systems, air bags, or audio control module to sync your phone to that allowed tracking of your whereabouts. At most, the only electronic systems on these older pickups might me electronic ignition systems. And they performed just fine. The steering suspension on newer trucks are similar to what is used in passenger cars. Older solid axle suspension systems were tough. They got the job done. You didn’t expect a comfortable ride, it’s a truck for God’s sake.
I had a Slant 6 Dodge truck in the mid-70's for work. It had no power steering, manual 3 speed stick shift, no radio, no a/c, just a work truck. That thing was actually very tough and held up great. But man, it was slow. Top speed on level ground, and not loaded, was 75mph. Loaded with filing cabinets in the bed, and a single axle trailer also loaded with filing cabinets, was 50mph, wide open throttle. But you could not wear out that 225 slant 6, it was a tough engine.
Wow! You could get it to 75 mph. The slant six is dependable, but the Ford 300 is better suited for loads. I'm a slant six fan and have a Sweptline with a 225. I'd liked to have seen a 300-ish inch inline six diesel in a 1/2 ton. The v8 Cummins in the Nissan Titan missed the mark. The F100 with the 300 six is a good truck.
@@lclfav2 they're fantastic driving trucks. My friend had a 68 & I had 71. Both 3 speed manuals. His with coils, & mine had factory leafs in the back. There's nothing like them today. I Thumbs up your post.
@@geraldthompson4633 I am aware of the bell housing, & thermostat housing's are aluminum.... what other components were aluminum? Those components would be nice to know....
It's interesting that Dodge focused on GVWR. Their's being higher, even though payload is higher the Chevy. That suggests that the Dodge simply is a heavier truck.
I'm glad that Dodge finally improved the appearance of its trucks by this point. Between the three trucks, I find the 1970 Ford F100 and the Dodge D100 to be the best looking.
That Dodge body style was pretty “long in the tooth” by 1970 and still had another year to go! Then came 1972 and finally a redesign - which was still being stamped out 21 years later.....😂
Yeah. Technically the D series began in '61 and got a new body and IFS in '72, and finished in '93. The late '50s C Series cabs were used in mid duty trucks well into the '70s, even the Big Horn used the '57 era cab design. Dodge stretched the tooling for as much as they could get out of it!
But hey,Iam a Ford man,But who got the last laugh,They put poor ugly Dodge down for years,When I drove the new 2019 Dodge ram Dually 3 years ago,I said to my girlfriend, That muthafucka is going to get at Ford and Chevrolets ass,And it did,Won motor trends truck of the year 3 years straight, (Dodge won it) my girlfriend loved Dodges,I hate because they Beat all over mustangs sorry underpowered asses with that hellcat,And Ford refused to build a mustang that could beat anything...
@@timothykeith1367 Also 1940's era power wagon made until around 1968 or so, complete with flathead 6 engine...and the Town Wagon was made thru 1966 with 1960 C-series body styling....
Yeah, I never did care for this generation of Dodge. The 1972 - 1993 Dodge trucks looked much better in my opinion. Those were the best looking trucks they produced.
No one ever compared their trucks with IHC. When looking to take market share away from a competitor, you don't pick the competitor who hardly has any market share in the first place. That said, I always appreciated International trucks and considered them better in certain ways than the others (though I didn't care much for the front suspension that they used during the last couple of years before they stopped making light trucks).
International made great trucks, but the people who knew about them worked with IH equipment. Joe from the hardware store would never have considered IH.
IH trucks were pretty good from what I understand, but they were on a major downswing by 1970 in truck sales, they likely weren't included not because they posed any real threat to any of the big three's credibility, but more so because they weren't even a threat at all.
Growing up my family had a 1968 Chevrolet C-10 CST with a Six-Pak camper on it. Equipped with the 307 cid V-8, turbo-hydramatic, power steering and power brakes. Had nearly 200,000 miles on it when my Mother sold it 11 years later. Made vacation trips from San Diego, California to Lorain, Ohio from 1968 to 1973 and was a daily driver too.
I bought a new chevy 4x4 in 66 just before the draft got me. I headed home and pushing it hard true, slung rod out the side with no warning. Motors locked up and the gauge reads the same and motors cooked! I call em up and explain a way and they said too bad so sad. I parked it in yard after wrecker brought me home and had breakfast with buddies at restaurant next morning there in town. We decide as a group were going into town to see if there are any good rigs on the lots to get me by till figured out. So I'm at a dodge outfit in our sister town and tell what I want/like yada yada. He tells me if I'll trade that dead chevy in (it was pretty) he will set me in a new dodge with nice new dodge. Its a deal! They will come and get chevy tomorrow so with the new papers in hand I start driving the dodge home... should I say to be continued, na, so I get on it when out of sight and not real hard but a couple of one wheel peels. I get to the hard turn off to my place and turn just to watch in mirror a axle on the back with tire on it come right out and gone and me sliding sideways right into a ministers car. It took us both out! I would say what I said there but you know anyway. I'm going to hospital back to sister town cause we don't have a hospital and they said I had to go for a few stitches. I was cursing and it wasn't my best day or form. So I'm out of the doctors office going home with a buddy from that town and he tells me to talk to his dad. Turns out he has a older ford 62 with the big knuckle four wheel drive that he will sell me on payments and not to worry that we were friends so he filled it with gas and I did make it that time with a good rig just not pretty but just glad to have wheels. I got out of the army in fall of sixty nine a little messed up but who wasn't. I got home and the guy who had sold me the ford gave me my money back with title in hand free! I still had it but it was parked till I got home. There are friends and then there was Denny H. who believed me and in me. I liked him better than most any one
You can't you can't kill a 318 if it's got oil in antifreeze hey run forever as long as you have starters alternators and carburetor used to eat them up love that motor
The 318 was solid for sure, but the rest of the truck...not so much. Kind of the same logic for the people who buy Cummins, most of them get the truck not because its a Dodge (Ram) but because its got the Cummins.
cj, Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was mandatory to smoke at all times if you were performing any job below the profession of heart surgeon.
I'm a Ford guy so I'd go with the Ford, but the best looking Dodges ever made imo were the 1972 - 1993 models, best looking GM's were 1973 - 1988 and Fords were 1973 - 1979. The 70's overall was a good time for anyone who wanted a truck.
You could get a 426 wedge in '64-67 ultra rare muscletruck Dodge model, but 318. In '67 Dodge the 383 more widely available. Ford didn't have 390 till '68 and Chevy added 396 in '68 too. 440 did not come until '74.
@@kingelvis7035 Sorry to rain on your parade, but, I had a '68 D100 with a 413/auto. Later on, I picked up a Red '70 Cowboy Coupe that was ordered with a 440/auto. Bought them both from original owners.
My dad had a 1970 Chevy C10 truck, and I remember it having a gauge cluster featuring gauges for *Fuel,* *Temperature,* and if I'm not mistaken, for *Oil Pressure.* They weren't very easy to see, since they were *underneath* the speedometer and the fuel gauge. But they were there.
And even after this commercial I still bought a Chevrolet...and still do to this day...I’ve drove all three and I’ve got them rated Chevrolet, Ford and then Dodge....not saying the others are bad cause their not...just a personal preference....
Yes and the dodge rides better than the competition with stiffer leaf springs (more max payload) , a shorter wheelbase and non independent front suspension.
she said that the chevrolet has a coil spring rear suspension but it was an option , not standard . in my personal experience of working in junkyards and owning over 55 vehicles fords usually have better paint and body quality for instance i owned a 71 dodge p.u. and inside the cab on a spot welded seam they had actually left a piece of mig welder wire stuck on the body . and the fords twin i-beam is the best front suspension system of the three it gives more wheel travel than the others and handles and rides better than the dodges straight axle but is still simple and rugged .
I'm not particularly a Ford or a Chevy guy,but I do own both brands. My old 93 Explorer has twin I beam front suspension and it's pretty good and solid. I have a 97 S10 also. In the past I've owned a couple of 70s Camaros. I always thought the S10 drove very much like the gen 2 Camaro. The front suspension down to the brakes is virtually Camaro and the rear suspension and the straight axle is very similar to the gen 2 Camaro. I like both brands they both have their good and bad points.
@@Thundarr995 - Interesting. Back in 1997 I took a new job, lost my Ford Taurus company car, and had to go buy a new vehicle on short notice. I decided I wanted a small pickup and shopped both the Ranger and the S10. After test driving both, it was my distinct impression that the Ranger was a truck, and the S10 was a car with a truck’s body! Ended up going with the new Ranger and that thing was an awesome little vehicle! Ran it up to around 235k miles before giving it to my niece as her high school vehicle. She sold it to a neighbor lady when she went away to college and I still see it around from time-to-time doing “Home Depot Duty” for her flower beds!
Chevrolet and ford really had the better trucks. In the looks and the reliability standpoints. Chevrolet had a little on ford in the design and quality standpoint such as Chevrolet had full double walled panels/ full adjustable Control arm suspension with sway bar options/ front disc brakes etc etc. not to mention GM trucks by far had the best looking interior
S Schroeder please. Thats why you can find that Pherd pos in farm implements, cars, trucks, stationary pumps and so on? Oh right thats the slant not that Pherd boat anchor.
Hal 1000 yea ok, you really have no credibility from what you just said about the Ford. I never called the 225 junk, but it’s simply not as good a truck engine as the 300, too small not enough torque, they were better in cars like taxis.
S Schroeder oh i do. Ive been tripping over those phed boat anchors in the wreckers for years. They had better be more powerful than the slant, they're 30% bigger but they dont have a racing history, not in production nearly as long and were not use as widely in way more applications than the slant. And ya they wouldn't out last a slant in any condition. The 300 maybe a decent 6 but its no where as good or verisitile as the slant.
Only thing I didn't like about those trucks was they put the gas tanks inside the cabs which was dangerous because say like if a driver of another car runs a red light or a stop sign & t-bones you between the cab & pickup bed, the gas tank would probably explode.
Cooks don't serve your lunch with a cigarette in their hand anymore (though they still do that here in Japan). Unfortunately, the Dodge trucks that year were hideous, which is why few were sold.
At (5:20-5:26) it shows the Chevy C10 instrument cluster with only the fuel gauge and no other analogue gauges! Call me naive, but that doesn't seem right for any vehicle, never mind a pickup truck.
I saw an old sales commercial from this time period and the sales guy is giving his pitch, "....power steering, gauges...", people are ripping him on youtube for advertising 'gauges', but they must have been an option back then.
dakota $2,800 in 1970 is worth $18,659.21 today. However, trucks are a lot more sophisticated today. I have a 2014 Ram Ecodiesel, and a 70 Dodge D100 - both are great trucks, but the Ecodiesel is more akin to a Cadillac those days than to the D100.
So what the film is saying is: Dodge is the most expensive base price, has outdated suspension, the weakest 6cyl Engine and the jack at … well … just another place - GO GET IT! ?
According to Google Images they are telling the truth. In any case, GM and Ford definitely did not have a Slant 6 engine so I'm sticking with Dodge for all my early 70s, base model pickup needs ;)
I had two of this model Dodge truck, one was a 1/2 ton and the other a 3/4 ton. Both trucks were very primitive compared to the competitors but I got a load of gravel once in the 3/4 ton and they weighed the truck before and after you were loaded because they charged by the ton. Before the gravel the truck weighed 4900 pounds and after I got loaded it tipped the scale at 9900 pounds, I had 2.5 tons of gravel in the bed which was heaped up almost to the top of the cab. But on the way home I forgot I had to pick up my boat from being worked on, the boat was a 20' tri-haul I/O. So I swung in and hitched the trailer to the 10k pound truck and cruised the highway home no problem, The truck wasn't even down to the stops in back.
I looked at three small/medium sized pickups in 1995 and decided on a short bed Dodge Dakota. had a longer bed (6 1/2 ft vs 6 ft for S-10& Ranger) and a wider bed (4 inches wider between the wheel wells) two people to sleep in. The 3.9 liter Magnum V6 was really fantastic, a EXCELLENT LOW END TORQUE. I have also owned and driven both the 4.3 GM VORTEC V6 and the FORD 4.2 LITER V6 and both of these engines seem very week in low end torque compared to the Dodge. the bucket seats are very comfortable, even for long drives. My only regret is not buying a 4 wheel drive.
The Ford 4.2L didn't come out in the F-150 until 1997. The Ranger had a 4.0L though. The 4.0L OHV Ford made 225 ft/lb of torque, the Dodge made 225 also. The Chevy would've made 260 ft/lb in 1995. So the Dodge didn't have a torque advantage over any of them. What may have happened was that the V6 Dakota's commonly had the 3.92 rear end. Where the Ranger with the 4.0L mostly came with 3.55 or 3.73's and the Chevy's often had 3.42's and sometimes 3.73's. The Dodge could've had a gearing advantage which would explain why it felt like it had more low end grunt.
The '95 Dakota had 3.55 anti-spin differential, I ORDERED it that way, didn't buy it off the lot. I had test driven a Dakota Magnum V6 used the previous fall and was very impressed. Didn't think I used 4x4 often enough to warrant buying it. But then almost got into serious off roading in the Cajon pass region of SoCal. We owned 3 Blazer/Jimmy's in late '80's to early 2000's. They were all my dad's but I drove them regularly. An '89 2 door w/4.3 TBI 4x4, A '98 jimmy 2-door 4x4 and a 2000 4 door 4x4 Blazer. The only one I really was impressed with was the '89. The last one was really low quality. Finally sold it for the '03 4x4 F-150 V6 2 yrs ago, drove all the way from LBCA to Salida, Co to pick it up. But back on the Dakota V6 , Dodge really got it right. Felt SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL than either than the Chevy 4.3 or the Ford 4.2, the only time I felt limited was long, steep climbs or high altitudes. Like climbing away from Point Arena on the Northern California coast or toward Richfield UT on I-70, otherwise the Dakota had plenty of power.
@@glennredwine289 The 4.2L in the F-150 was a dog, particularly with the heavier 4WD trucks. I had a 1997 F-150 at one point with the 4.6L (single cab, 4WD) and it was okay. I wouldn't want to tow much over 5000 pounds with it. The brakes were sub-par. But for a 2nd vehicle it did whatever I asked of it. Finally got rid of it about three years ago, it was nickel and diming me to the point where I was spending a grand a year to keep a truck that was maybe worth $2.5k on the road. I replaced it with a 2014 F-150 (3.5L Ecoboost, supercrew,4WD) which was a much more powerful truck, sold it to my brother after only a year of ownership. And replaced it with a 2019 F-150 (Gen 2 3.5L Ecoboost, 4WD, Crewcab, 10 speed). It's alot like the 2014 but is a bit quicker still. It's a still a 2nd vehicle, I daily my 2016 Mustang GT, it's more fun to drive. The TBI 4.3L was okay down low, but like most GM TBI engines, it was basically done at 4000 RPM. the CFI injected versions were better, even with that weird spider/poppet valve fuel delivery system.
@@FoDaddy yes, the old GM 4.3L V6 engines were good. We had an '89 Blazer and it had good low end torque. But my dad had an accident & it got wrecked. Replaced w/ 98 GMC Jimmy multi port V6. POOR LOW END TORQUE.. Think GM was only thinking marketing gimmicks and torque on.paper.
The chevy is amazing looking. My friend had a 70 GMC longhorn LS9 350 all original drove like caddy was fast took work easily. The Ford has best rear axle
It’s funny that Dodge (Ram) trucks today use coil springs on the front and back for their 1500 models. They ride nice though. Trucks 50 years ago were made for work. Trucks built today are more like luxury cars.
I don't know why but these trucks are on fire. Broncos, suburbans, blazers. Dealers fix them up flip them. You couldn't give me one. Unless it's blazer 2x4 pre emissions. We do carpet, door panels, seats, just make them look original. Bench seats come apart in 20 minutes. Fresh cover in 30 minutes. Foam mostly driver side. I used to love 1965 chevy
The Dodge vehicles back then for some reason had best window cranks in any truck or car. My 72 Coronet has perfect window mechanisms even with 140k miles on it. My dad's 71 Ford has that problem where if you roll the window all the way down, they get stuck. Same with my buddy's 74 Chevy C20. I don't know what they put in them, but it sure makes a difference.
My under the hood jack 1969 f250 still works I tried it out recently man deal breakers back then counting nickles and dimes i wont pay 3:50 more for a ford 😊
Congratulations on the Dodge dude very well truck I seen a replica of a Dodge dude that somebody just bought the sticker kit out of some old new old stock. It’s amazing to me how many of these trucks are around that people just stopped using because they were archaic no air conditioning cruise control arcade bench seats but a lot of them were still use this old farm trucks
Lol this video makes me love my 1970 3 on the tree Chevrolet C/10 more and more. Fun truck, and I think the C/10 is the best looking. Although I rarely ever see any old Dodges driving around, mostly see Chevys and Fords. Makes me a little skeptical about buying a Dodge truck. But if it's an old Dodge muscle car, I'm in!
I like how it’s a Dodge promo but they highlight the important work and function features and still gave credit to Ford and Chevy when they had the better feature. Nowadays they put each other down and just show you the interior and the tech features that costs more.
There's no such thing as truth in advertising any more, businesses and their customers generate their own truths. There's no reason to acknowledge the strengths of your competition when they aren't a part of the reality one has chosen to live in
V R different world...
These weren't commercials they were Dodge sales trading.
@@303nitzubishi4 their has never been truth in advertising.
I'm so sick of talk of "interiors" on today's vehicles, especially trucks...interior shouldn't matter that much on a truck,and besides, I don't consider a bunch of plastic, bucket seats and consoles, dash screens, cup holders much of an "interior" on a truck anyways...give me a thick vinyl bench seat, column shift(unless it's a 4 or 5 speed manual), and a rubber floor mat...that's all the "interior" you need in a pickup....
I have a 1968 F100 my dad bought it brand new in 68, still have it,got a 390 in it , came with a 360 when it was new, had about 370,000 plus miles on it. I put the 390 in it about 17 years ago, truck has now 435,000 miles on it and the old boy still runs great. I'm fixing it up for my son's twin boys. I was seventeen then and I'm just about seventy, I'm just glad the old truck can't talk I would be in some trouble.
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We have been sold to keep buying new cars ,Those trucks were so simple, you can put whatever power train you want in it.
Wish I'd have kept mine. great story
In trouble for your driving in it, or dating in it?....
Nobody cares about your ford. There are a billion of them
Over the years I have owned all 3 of those 1970 models and I'm a Dodge guy but my Ford was best
None could beat Ford back then, It's the world's best selling pickup today,And holds the record for being the most stolen vehicle today 2022, F-150... Dodge was better than a Chevy,Gm trucks too soft-built and wouldn't pull much of shit,318 would beat Ford 302 and Chevy 307,but that 307 was fast as hell for it's small size,I like them all though,I grew up in them,It's American 🏈🏈🏈, Tailgating....
I like 'em all, but my favorite is the Chevy..IMHO, the best pickup body style ever made..not that the others were bad...one thing I don't like about the Ford, though, is the single-wall cargo box on the upper part....
I'm sold i will take the international harvester
AMEN, I'm a big IH fan, T444E and DT530 are some awesome engines.
Had a '70 IH 4WD truck back in the 80's. Thing was a tank.
IH all the way.
Oh yea! In 1978, I bought a new Scout II TERRA Pickup Truck, loaded Select Edition with 345/4 brl, dual exhaust, 3:51 Trac Loc, 2 speed HD Transfer, with HD 727 Automatic. In Canyon Black with gold steel off road wheels, 32” GoodYear Tracker Tires, gold stripes down the sides from marker light to marker light and white removable Cab Roof! That truck was a beast! Could tow my brothers 10,000 boat&trailer down to the bay at the beginning of summer and back in the fall, like it wasn’t there! Could haul the rated at 2,000 lbs in the bed without bottoming out on all but the biggest bumps. Great truck!
Great choice I own a 1967 1200 4x4 it’s a great truck
Nowadays, instead of bragging about the most extended bed, you boast about the four-doors and a micro-bed.
YES. Hard time finding a 8 foot bed. Myself has to have.
Exactly,...a major reason I don't want/don't need a modern truck...other reasons are the prices, the really thin sheetmetal(or aluminum), really high bedsides you can't reach over, complicated electronics, and(IMHO), terrible styling....
I love it. This was from back when men drove trucks and metrosexuals didn't exist.
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Hope you sleep with the light on to keep you safe from all them metrosexuals hiding under your bed
Have to add you sound like one of them pathetic little punks with 100grand in your 4x4 with a 5grand paint job with out a scratch on it because you have to garage it if it even looks like it might rain
That were the good old days
2 words: Freddie Mercury.
nice to see all three so new, not rotted out. pretty funny how they brag about three bucks cheaper back then
If the truck spent its entire "life" in a southern state, that rarely got snow & salt to melt it, the truck would probably STILL look like that today!
@Sodham G'morris thats funny because greenbacks werent backed by gold they were a fiat currency ordered by lincoln during the civil war
Right on.
I'll say this for these comparison videos, they're sure entertaining to watch.
Beautiful Old trucks mate infact they look wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than anything you see on the road today.
CJ Colvin Have you been blind all your life?
I agree with CJ Colvin . The new trucks of today are to big and overpriced . Can't get a manual shift . To much computerized technology that I don't need or use .
Uhh, no they don’t. Today’s trucks are drop dead gorgeous, vagina snatchers. Neither of them old trucks fit that description.
@kcotte59 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
@@label1877 Yeah right mate.
So sad. A set of wheels and tires for a modern truck cost more than the whole damn truck did back then....
Well … no. 1970s 2500$ would be in today money some $17.000$. So the truck would still be relatively cheap compared to modern trucks, but technological also quite primitive.
I e.g. don't want to sit in such a thing even in a 25 mph collision.
(See e.g. here: www.usinflationcalculator.com)
@@Slazlo-Brovnik what kind of modern "protect today" seizure was that.
@@artdecotimes2942 Frankly: no idea what you mean or want to say ... sry
@@Slazlo-Brovnik your being afraid of the past and constantly bettering the modern era. Which isn't true, you just weren't around to drive the trucks back in 1970, so you think by your guesses that it doesn't work very well compared to a modern day truck. The best truck I ever had was a 1937 Hudson Terraplane Pickup, worked fine, looked fantastic and elegant, and easily started and stopped. If you drove 40 in that automobile or any other you would survive, in modern day if you drove 40 into that automobile you would be in for a hell. Modern day does their damnest to advertise today in only good light. Back then it was all the arrangements from fantastic, to bad, to worst. You will never find pictures of crashes in current times in advertisments, only a cancer patient and black family thrown in there that are smiling for no reason, oh and testing ground conditions like the artic to the desert which doesn't show anything.
@@artdecotimes2942I am afraid of the past? What should that even mean?
But okay: I am 60 now and learned driving around 1975 on a then already old VW T1 flatbed from 1963. Got my Driving license 1978. So I do remember the old times, I drove the old cars.
Regarding your statements about vehicle safety - those are ... sorry ... just ridiculous. Modern cars are so much safer. Just compare the number of deaths due to traffic accidents which are way lower today than in the 70ties (no matter what country) although we have much more cars and denser traffic today.
If you are seriously trying to tell me that a 1937 car is safer than any modern car, then we are already done - because that's just nonsense.
You can even find here on UA-cam a video with a head on offset crash test between a 2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air It shows that the driver in the much bigger Bel Air would be most likely dead or at least severely hurt, while the Chevy Malibu is way better of and had good chances to just walk away. And a 2009 Chevy Malibu is 11 years old today and not even state of the art.
Here ist the link for you: ua-cam.com/video/fPF4fBGNK0U/v-deo.html
And of course advertising at no time in history showed crashed cars and always showed products in good light. It's Advertising!
But what they do today is crashtests and you can find a lot of footage e.g. here on you tube. Just compare how older cars compare to todays cars.
The Dodge truck is the oldest looking in 1970
Seriously. That roof and the side molding are 50's era styling.
Today it's the coolest looking
Chevy and Ford design was from 67 and Dodge was still using its 61 design with a few changes.
The Dodge truck body style started in 1961!
The Ford truck body style started in 1967!
The Chevrolet truck body style started in 1967 too!
Yes, you are right!
The Dodge was over due for a new look!
yes. they were way overdue for a remodel by that point, but it didn’t happen until 1972.
I still see 1970 Chevy Trucks on the road today! Don't see many 1970 Dodge Trucks today unless at a Mopar car show.
They all rotted
More of the Sweptlines are being restored. They have a nitch fan base that's growing, more body patch panels are available. But trim and grilles are hard to find.
Dodge sold way less, Einstein
Can we just appreciate that these trucks are better than anything built in 2021.
maybe if the wheels were sticking outside the body, they could make the trucks look sick (or obnoxious)
I love the old cars and trucks but they can’t hold a candle to these new ones in any way. Fully boxed frames, huge towing and payload capacity, twice the horsepower with better fuel economy. Start and run perfectly in any weather or altitude. Low maintenance. Luxury liner comfort.
Then again you pay for all that. Adjusted for inflation those old trucks in the video were $23,000. A mid-level model today is $50k.
Grandpa had a 1969 Dodge truck with slant-6 and three on the tree. Love it!
I had the same truck ,green with a white roof. I paid $425.00 used i was 18-19 years old. Around 1976. Had no tailgate tho.
Blue truck, white top
Had a ‘75 D-100 Adventurer w/slant 6 & 3 speed - loved it for 4 years and just under 100,000 trouble free miles. Now have a ‘97 Dakota I have had for 23 years and still under 100,000 miles.
From a guy who owns a 70 C10 I personally think it's the best looking truck of the year. No comparison
I got one to //LOVE IT
@@cbmichels6210 Very popular now, for sure. GM is pretty frustrated that so many of its products of this era are restored down to the bolt, and yet many people can't identify their current products, other than say a few models like Silverado. GM was at the top of their game in 1970.
I agree
Me too, I can’t believe this hideous looking truck cost more than Chevy and ford!
I had a fairly detailed plastic toy Chevy C-10 with cap on the bed when I was in 1st Grade. It was yellow and white with white cap. Would be nice to have it today.
I drove a 1960 6 cylinder good truck and I bought a 1967 dodge 3/4 four speed v 8 camper special very dependable truck and easy to work on it. Now all vehicles look beautiful but they're nothing but very expensive plastic .
I was ready to buy the ford, but then when I saw the jack handle behind the seat? no thank you
Yeah really.... LOL.
I had two Fords in 70 and i still can't find the code reader port, i know it's there.
I'am from Argentina and have a D 100 74' whit Perkins engine diesel. Good truck!!
So this is when you bought a truck you got a truck. Not some rolling network of computers on wheels. There were no body control modules, crash avoidance systems, air bags, or audio control module to sync your phone to that allowed tracking of your whereabouts.
At most, the only electronic systems on these older pickups might me electronic ignition systems. And they performed just fine.
The steering suspension on newer trucks are similar to what is used in passenger cars. Older solid axle suspension systems were tough. They got the job done. You didn’t expect a comfortable ride, it’s a truck for God’s sake.
I had a Slant 6 Dodge truck in the mid-70's for work. It had no power steering, manual 3 speed stick shift, no radio, no a/c, just a work truck. That thing was actually very tough and held up great. But man, it was slow. Top speed on level ground, and not loaded, was 75mph. Loaded with filing cabinets in the bed, and a single axle trailer also loaded with filing cabinets, was 50mph, wide open throttle. But you could not wear out that 225 slant 6, it was a tough engine.
Wow! You could get it to 75 mph. The slant six is dependable, but the Ford 300 is better suited for loads. I'm a slant six fan and have a Sweptline with a 225. I'd liked to have seen a 300-ish inch inline six diesel in a 1/2 ton. The v8 Cummins in the Nissan Titan missed the mark. The F100 with the 300 six is a good truck.
Hahaha chevy is bad because it has coil springs in the back.... what did dodge do in 09??? Cool video though.
LOL, thing is the GM IFS has been a week link for GM for decades, it's far too weak.
I had a '70 GMC that was a coil spring truck. It rode out great.
@@lclfav2 they're fantastic driving trucks. My friend had a 68 & I had 71. Both 3 speed manuals. His with coils, & mine had factory leafs in the back. There's nothing like them today. I Thumbs up your post.
Logan Derksen aluminum was bad at Chevy. Now they save 500lbs by using it
@@geraldthompson4633 I am aware of the bell housing, & thermostat housing's are aluminum.... what other components were aluminum? Those components would be nice to know....
It's interesting that Dodge focused on GVWR. Their's being higher, even though payload is higher the Chevy. That suggests that the Dodge simply is a heavier truck.
The front beam axle has that advantage.
'It beats hell outta the blue plate special!" Classic!
I'm a Dodge guy but that Chevy truck is sure nice looking
I'm glad that Dodge finally improved the appearance of its trucks by this point. Between the three trucks, I find the 1970 Ford F100 and the Dodge D100 to be the best looking.
That Dodge is one ugly truck.
Dodge was ugly as hell
You may not like the appearance of the Dodge truck at this point. But it takes more than appearance to make a good truck. :)
@@jasoncarpp7742 appearance doesn't cut it ! But toughness does ,,,both chev & FORD are out of that game !
@@eleanorecopet4090 This was before I was born. I've never driven either of the trucks in the video.
The thing that got me going was Dodge still selling a truck with a front suspension from the 1930s. And a electrical system from the 1910s.
You can still get a new heavy duty Ford pickup with a front beam axle
That Dodge body style was pretty “long in the tooth” by 1970 and still had another year to go! Then came 1972 and finally a redesign - which was still being stamped out 21 years later.....😂
Yeah. Technically the D series began in '61 and got a new body and IFS in '72, and finished in '93. The late '50s C Series cabs were used in mid duty trucks well into the '70s, even the Big Horn used the '57 era cab design. Dodge stretched the tooling for as much as they could get out of it!
But hey,Iam a Ford man,But who got the last laugh,They put poor ugly Dodge down for years,When I drove the new 2019 Dodge ram Dually 3 years ago,I said to my girlfriend, That muthafucka is going to get at Ford and Chevrolets ass,And it did,Won motor trends truck of the year 3 years straight, (Dodge won it) my girlfriend loved Dodges,I hate because they Beat all over mustangs sorry underpowered asses with that hellcat,And Ford refused to build a mustang that could beat anything...
@@timothykeith1367 Guess they couldn't afford a total redesign as often.
@@timothykeith1367 Also 1940's era power wagon made until around 1968 or so, complete with flathead 6 engine...and the Town Wagon was made thru 1966 with 1960 C-series body styling....
I'll take a a 396 chevy truck with a turbohydramatic transmission also cold air and a delco amfm radio.That all I need back then and all I need today.
The Chevy and Ford just better looking trucks.
Yeah, I never did care for this generation of Dodge. The 1972 - 1993 Dodge trucks looked much better in my opinion. Those were the best looking trucks they produced.
I can't help but notice that they didn't even try to compare their truck with the beast- International Harvester.
Lee Huff International got out of truck game only a few years later, their sales were low.
No one ever compared their trucks with IHC. When looking to take market share away from a competitor, you don't pick the competitor who hardly has any market share in the first place. That said, I always appreciated International trucks and considered them better in certain ways than the others (though I didn't care much for the front suspension that they used during the last couple of years before they stopped making light trucks).
International made great trucks, but the people who knew about them worked with IH equipment. Joe from the hardware store would never have considered IH.
The farmers knew which truck to buy and it wasn’t any of theses. IH all the way.
IH trucks were pretty good from what I understand, but they were on a major downswing by 1970 in truck sales, they likely weren't included not because they posed any real threat to any of the big three's credibility, but more so because they weren't even a threat at all.
Growing up my family had a 1968 Chevrolet C-10 CST with a Six-Pak camper on it. Equipped with the 307 cid V-8, turbo-hydramatic, power steering and power brakes. Had nearly 200,000 miles on it when my Mother sold it 11 years later. Made vacation trips from San Diego, California to Lorain, Ohio from 1968 to 1973 and was a daily driver too.
I bought a new chevy 4x4 in 66 just before the draft got me. I headed home and pushing it hard true, slung rod out the side with no warning. Motors locked up and the gauge reads the same and motors cooked! I call em up and explain a way and they said too bad so sad. I parked it in yard after wrecker brought me home and had breakfast with buddies at restaurant next morning there in town. We decide as a group were going into town to see if there are any good rigs on the lots to get me by till figured out. So I'm at a dodge outfit in our sister town and tell what I want/like yada yada. He tells me if I'll trade that dead chevy in (it was pretty) he will set me in a new dodge with nice new dodge. Its a deal! They will come and get chevy tomorrow so with the new papers in hand I start driving the dodge home... should I say to be continued, na, so I get on it when out of sight and not real hard but a couple of one wheel peels. I get to the hard turn off to my place and turn just to watch in mirror a axle on the back with tire on it come right out and gone and me sliding sideways right into a ministers car. It took us both out! I would say what I said there but you know anyway. I'm going to hospital back to sister town cause we don't have a hospital and they said I had to go for a few stitches. I was cursing and it wasn't my best day or form. So I'm out of the doctors office going home with a buddy from that town and he tells me to talk to his dad. Turns out he has a older ford 62 with the big knuckle four wheel drive that he will sell me on payments and not to worry that we were friends so he filled it with gas and I did make it that time with a good rig just not pretty but just glad to have wheels. I got out of the army in fall of sixty nine a little messed up but who wasn't. I got home and the guy who had sold me the ford gave me my money back with title in hand free! I still had it but it was parked till I got home. There are friends and then there was Denny H. who believed me and in me. I liked him better than most any one
I'm sold ill take the ford thanks .
Ford, Fix Often Repair Daily
@@edwardpate6128 first on race day.
With the 300 six
@@stubs1227 failed on race day
I"ll take a C10 any day. 6:27 Did they intentionally misspell gauges? Oh they must have, I see lenth above it.
Amd that spelling gets even worse! 8:53
The '67 to '72 C10 is very popular today. The 307, not so much.
@@timothykeith1367 307 is a excellent engine
I’ll take the 318 , one of the best engines of all time ..
You can't you can't kill a 318 if it's got oil in antifreeze hey run forever as long as you have starters alternators and carburetor used to eat them up love that motor
The 318 was solid for sure, but the rest of the truck...not so much. Kind of the same logic for the people who buy Cummins, most of them get the truck not because its a Dodge (Ram) but because its got the Cummins.
You're lucky. I had the 318 in a '72 Charger...POS!
@@danbolton3180 your just unlucky hahaha the 318 is well known for being simply unkillable
Buddy at the diner smoking a dart while he chats ahhh the good old days lol
The narrator at the start of the video is Sonny Elliot who was a well known Detroit area weatherman for decades!
Regarding chrome trim and side moldings, my uncle used to say "Hell, I'd pay you to keep that crap OFF my truck!"
I would love to have any of the big 3 brand trucks from that era. Theyre all beautiful
I wish they still made dealer videos like these. It would have helped me when i worked in car sales
@ 0:50 the guy serving food has a smoke in his lips.... LOL . How times have changed .
charles jenkins
cj, Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was mandatory to smoke at all times if you were performing any job below the profession of heart surgeon.
Ya cuz food now gives you cancer
I am a Dodge man but the Dodge was too ugly to consider ...if I were a buyer back then.
I'm a Ford guy so I'd go with the Ford, but the best looking Dodges ever made imo were the 1972 - 1993 models, best looking GM's were 1973 - 1988 and Fords were 1973 - 1979. The 70's overall was a good time for anyone who wanted a truck.
@@nathanmcdonald610 the most sought after body style trucks of this era is the 67-72 c10s. There absolutely beautiful body styles
And which one was the biggest seller? Here’s a hint, it doesn’t start with a D😉😄
Ford was
I've daily driven a '72 F100, a '72 C10, and currently drive a '65 C20. I know which one I get the most thumbs up in!
I remember the 1965 Chevy,my dad had one when he was out of work
I would drive my 63 C10, but it's always broke down
383, 413, and some years 440s!
You could get a 426 wedge in '64-67 ultra rare muscletruck Dodge model, but 318. In '67 Dodge the 383 more widely available. Ford didn't have 390 till '68 and Chevy added 396 in '68 too. 440 did not come until '74.
Hey, the 1978 360 2 bbl was a running machine.
@@kingelvis7035 Sorry to rain on your parade, but, I had a '68 D100 with a 413/auto.
Later on, I picked up a Red '70 Cowboy Coupe that was ordered with a 440/auto. Bought them both from original owners.
And the 426street wedge for power 365 HP back in the day I have one in a power wagon
Ford f-150 1973 460 v8 4bb.
Would love to have a 1970 dodge truck!! I'm sold!!!
Dodge would finally modernize the looks of its truck in 1972. The 1970 truck looks dated compared the Chevy and Ford.
Mario Di Ponio yes true
Then they were behind again when GM redesigned the trucks for 1973.
David Leavitt square body 🤟🤟🤟
In 1970, that sales pitch probably worked. But they were just splitting hairs.
My dad had a 1970 Chevy C10 truck, and I remember it having a gauge cluster featuring gauges for *Fuel,* *Temperature,* and if I'm not mistaken, for *Oil Pressure.* They weren't very easy to see, since they were *underneath* the speedometer and the fuel gauge. But they were there.
That was optional
And even after this commercial I still bought a Chevrolet...and still do to this day...I’ve drove all three and I’ve got them rated Chevrolet, Ford and then Dodge....not saying the others are bad cause their not...just a personal preference....
So then he said forget it, and went out and bought an international.
That spelling at 6:30.....
Apparently you get std with it back then. Lol
He meant "lenth" instead of "length"
More sexually transmitted disease gajes!
what about Gajes?
Thank God the Jack was under the hood.
Sorry, so the only benefit of the standard 6 is that it's slanted?
Yes and the dodge rides better than the competition with stiffer leaf springs (more max payload) , a shorter wheelbase and non independent front suspension.
The Dodge has more moldings that's why it's better.
she said that the chevrolet has a coil spring rear suspension but it was an option , not standard . in my personal experience of working in junkyards and owning over 55 vehicles fords usually have better paint and body quality for instance i owned a 71 dodge p.u. and inside the cab on a spot welded seam they had actually left a piece of mig welder wire stuck on the body . and the fords twin i-beam is the best front suspension system of the three it gives more wheel travel than the others and handles and rides better than the dodges straight axle but is still simple and rugged .
You actually know whay you are talking about. The rest of the people are arm chair couch potatoes.
I'm not particularly a Ford or a Chevy guy,but I do own both brands. My old 93 Explorer has twin I beam front suspension and it's pretty good and solid. I have a 97 S10 also. In the past I've owned a couple of 70s Camaros. I always thought the S10 drove very much like the gen 2 Camaro. The front suspension down to the brakes is virtually Camaro and the rear suspension and the straight axle is very similar to the gen 2 Camaro. I like both brands they both have their good and bad points.
@@Thundarr995 best explanation I have heard. I agree, the chev drives like a car and the ford is a truck.
@@Thundarr995 - Interesting. Back in 1997 I took a new job, lost my Ford Taurus company car, and had to go buy a new vehicle on short notice. I decided I wanted a small pickup and shopped both the Ranger and the S10. After test driving both, it was my distinct impression that the Ranger was a truck, and the S10 was a car with a truck’s body!
Ended up going with the new Ranger and that thing was an awesome little vehicle! Ran it up to around 235k miles before giving it to my niece as her high school vehicle. She sold it to a neighbor lady when she went away to college and I still see it around from time-to-time doing “Home Depot Duty” for her flower beds!
Anybody know who the voice of Tech (or in this film) Gus was? That's quite a voice!
I was adventuresome in those days. Make mine an Adventurer with the full Ziebart rustproofing.
I recognize the voice of the narrator. I am almost certain that is the Iconic Detroit weatherman Sonny Elliot!
Had a 70 model with the slant 6. Could no kill that old truck. How I wish I had it back.
Chevrolet and ford really had the better trucks. In the looks and the reliability standpoints. Chevrolet had a little on ford in the design and quality standpoint such as Chevrolet had full double walled panels/ full adjustable Control arm suspension with sway bar options/ front disc brakes etc etc. not to mention GM trucks by far had the best looking interior
If you bought all three and put them away until now everyone knows what one brings top dollar now!
Me Garden Yeah, the Chevy.
Hehehe
Ya the Ford...
Great prices. I'll buy all three.
The slant six Gus...so you have a solid lifter ticker six oh yea. Me thinks the Chev and Ford sixes were better, quieter, more powerful.
S Schroeder but wouldn't last as long as a slant. Oh and ps, solid lifters. Last engine in production than anyone else before switching to hydraulic
Hal 1000 yea BS. A Ford 300 will walk all over a slant 225 and last longer. Tick tick tick says the rickety slant six.
S Schroeder please. Thats why you can find that Pherd pos in farm implements, cars, trucks, stationary pumps and so on? Oh right thats the slant not that Pherd boat anchor.
Hal 1000 yea ok, you really have no credibility from what you just said about the Ford. I never called the 225 junk, but it’s simply not as good a truck engine as the 300, too small not enough torque, they were better in cars like taxis.
S Schroeder oh i do. Ive been tripping over those phed boat anchors in the wreckers for years. They had better be more powerful than the slant, they're 30% bigger but they dont have a racing history, not in production nearly as long and were not use as widely in way more applications than the slant.
And ya they wouldn't out last a slant in any condition.
The 300 maybe a decent 6 but its no where as good or verisitile as the slant.
Only thing I didn't like about those trucks was they put the gas tanks inside the cabs which was dangerous because say like if a driver of another car runs a red light or a stop sign & t-bones you between the cab & pickup bed, the gas tank would probably explode.
5:20 Well you know the Chevrolet offers an option with an instrument cluster that has gas, heat, battery, oil, and speedometer.
I regret that my family did not have one of these back in the day. I heard good things about Dodge trucks.
I love those year Ford Trucks!!!
Cooks don't serve your lunch with a cigarette in their hand anymore (though they still do that here in Japan). Unfortunately, the Dodge trucks that year were hideous, which is why few were sold.
Hideous? Probably my favorite styled truck ever.
At least Explain how they were hideous.
I'll take the Ford. We had a 69 F250, we had it for over 25 years, it was tough! Dodge wasn't selling very many trucks back then.
I would take a Ford F-100 Ranger with a 390 FE V8. Looks better than the Chevy or Dodge IMHO.
I had a 72 Ranger XLT with the 360 FE.
At (5:20-5:26) it shows the Chevy C10 instrument cluster with only the fuel gauge and no other analogue gauges! Call me naive, but that doesn't seem right for any vehicle, never mind a pickup truck.
I have a 1967 C10, and my instrument cluster is identical to that one.
I saw an old sales commercial from this time period and the sales guy is giving his pitch, "....power steering, gauges...", people are ripping him on youtube for advertising 'gauges', but they must have been an option back then.
Gauges must've been an option. Perhaps the sales announcer in the UA-cam video should've said that power steering and analogue gauges were optional.
Gauges were optional on 67-72 Chevy's. I've seen a lot of trucks with them over the years.
I've seen Chevy and GMC trucks of this vintage with analogue gauges. Why would they be optional? Why didn't they just include them as standard?
Chevys the better looking truck, I’m sure they all get the job done though.
In 1970, did paying $2800 for a pickup seem as impossible as paying $38,000 for a pickup today?
dakota $2,800 in 1970 is worth $18,659.21 today. However, trucks are a lot more sophisticated today. I have a 2014 Ram Ecodiesel, and a 70 Dodge D100 - both are great trucks, but the Ecodiesel is more akin to a Cadillac those days than to the D100.
I get what you are saying, but 38K seems too much like a house payment for the likes of me!@@westernsky4808
Yes, I was there
So what the film is saying is: Dodge is the most expensive base price, has outdated suspension, the weakest 6cyl Engine and the jack at … well … just another place - GO GET IT! ?
why is the gas tank different in california?
Has anybody notice the misspelled words on the blackboard. Priceless !
they're trying to be funny. You can't do that in todays environment or people spazz out. Just like the way their talking.
I would love to have all 3 in my shop...I always love the older bodystil...
I'll never be able to get these 11 minutes back, that I so foolishly squandered...
Surprised to learn Chevy had rear coil springs in those days.
Right Lane Hog I’m not entirely sure they were truthful about that, my uncle has that year c10 and I’m pretty sure it has leaf springs in the back
According to Google Images they are telling the truth. In any case, GM and Ford definitely did not have a Slant 6 engine so I'm sticking with Dodge for all my early 70s, base model pickup needs ;)
The GM truck coil spring rear suspension is the basis for NASCAR chassis. They used coils 1960-72.
The GMC had leaf springs whereas the Chevy C10 had coil springs
Mark H thanks for that
I miss my Dodge D100 Adventurer
I had two of this model Dodge truck, one was a 1/2 ton and the other a 3/4 ton. Both trucks were very primitive compared to the competitors but I got a load of gravel once in the 3/4 ton and they weighed the truck before and after you were loaded because they charged by the ton. Before the gravel the truck weighed 4900 pounds and after I got loaded it tipped the scale at 9900 pounds, I had 2.5 tons of gravel in the bed which was heaped up almost to the top of the cab. But on the way home I forgot I had to pick up my boat from being worked on, the boat was a 20' tri-haul I/O. So I swung in and hitched the trailer to the 10k pound truck and cruised the highway home no problem, The truck wasn't even down to the stops in back.
Straight axle solid alright, I rode in 68 dodge on washboard! Truck bounced so much, it almost bouse in the right side ditch!
I looked at three small/medium sized pickups in 1995 and decided on a short bed Dodge Dakota. had a longer bed (6 1/2 ft vs 6 ft for S-10& Ranger) and a wider bed (4 inches wider between the wheel wells) two people to sleep in. The 3.9 liter Magnum V6 was really fantastic, a EXCELLENT LOW END TORQUE. I have also owned and driven both the 4.3 GM VORTEC V6 and the FORD 4.2 LITER V6 and both of these engines seem very week in low end torque compared to the Dodge. the bucket seats are very comfortable, even for long drives. My only regret is not buying a 4 wheel drive.
The Ford 4.2L didn't come out in the F-150 until 1997. The Ranger had a 4.0L though. The 4.0L OHV Ford made 225 ft/lb of torque, the Dodge made 225 also. The Chevy would've made 260 ft/lb in 1995. So the Dodge didn't have a torque advantage over any of them. What may have happened was that the V6 Dakota's commonly had the 3.92 rear end. Where the Ranger with the 4.0L mostly came with 3.55 or 3.73's and the Chevy's often had 3.42's and sometimes 3.73's. The Dodge could've had a gearing advantage which would explain why it felt like it had more low end grunt.
The '95 Dakota had 3.55 anti-spin differential, I ORDERED it that way, didn't buy it off the lot. I had test driven a Dakota Magnum V6 used the previous fall and was very impressed. Didn't think I used 4x4 often enough to warrant buying it. But then almost got into serious off roading in the Cajon pass region of SoCal. We owned 3 Blazer/Jimmy's in late '80's to early 2000's. They were all my dad's but I drove them regularly. An '89 2 door w/4.3 TBI 4x4, A '98 jimmy 2-door 4x4 and a 2000 4 door 4x4 Blazer. The only one I really was impressed with was the '89. The last one was really low quality. Finally sold it for the '03 4x4 F-150 V6 2 yrs ago, drove all the way from LBCA to Salida, Co to pick it up. But back on the Dakota V6 , Dodge really got it right. Felt SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL than either than the Chevy 4.3 or the Ford 4.2, the only time I felt limited was long, steep climbs or high altitudes. Like climbing away from Point Arena on the Northern California coast or toward Richfield UT on I-70, otherwise the Dakota had plenty of power.
@@glennredwine289 The 4.2L in the F-150 was a dog, particularly with the heavier 4WD trucks. I had a 1997 F-150 at one point with the 4.6L (single cab, 4WD) and it was okay. I wouldn't want to tow much over 5000 pounds with it. The brakes were sub-par. But for a 2nd vehicle it did whatever I asked of it. Finally got rid of it about three years ago, it was nickel and diming me to the point where I was spending a grand a year to keep a truck that was maybe worth $2.5k on the road. I replaced it with a 2014 F-150 (3.5L Ecoboost, supercrew,4WD) which was a much more powerful truck, sold it to my brother after only a year of ownership. And replaced it with a 2019 F-150 (Gen 2 3.5L Ecoboost, 4WD, Crewcab, 10 speed). It's alot like the 2014 but is a bit quicker still. It's a still a 2nd vehicle, I daily my 2016 Mustang GT, it's more fun to drive.
The TBI 4.3L was okay down low, but like most GM TBI engines, it was basically done at 4000 RPM. the CFI injected versions were better, even with that weird spider/poppet valve fuel delivery system.
The 4.9 straight six seemed to have good torque. 4.2 served me well for my needs.
@@FoDaddy yes, the old GM 4.3L V6 engines were good. We had an '89 Blazer and it had good low end torque. But my dad had an accident & it got wrecked. Replaced w/ 98 GMC Jimmy multi port V6. POOR LOW END TORQUE.. Think GM was only thinking marketing gimmicks and torque on.paper.
I'll take the Ford
I’ll take the much better Chevrolet
These were great trucks had a c10,great truck no electronic shit just a great everyday work truck ,bring them back
The chevy is amazing looking. My friend had a 70 GMC longhorn LS9 350 all original drove like caddy was fast took work easily. The Ford has best rear axle
It’s funny that Dodge (Ram) trucks today use coil springs on the front and back for their 1500 models. They ride nice though. Trucks 50 years ago were made for work. Trucks built today are more like luxury cars.
Dodge changed their minds about those coils haha
I don't know why but these trucks are on fire. Broncos, suburbans, blazers. Dealers fix them up flip them. You couldn't give me one. Unless it's blazer 2x4 pre emissions. We do carpet, door panels, seats, just make them look original. Bench seats come apart in 20 minutes. Fresh cover in 30 minutes. Foam mostly driver side. I used to love 1965 chevy
The Dodge vehicles back then for some reason had best window cranks in any truck or car. My 72 Coronet has perfect window mechanisms even with 140k miles on it. My dad's 71 Ford has that problem where if you roll the window all the way down, they get stuck. Same with my buddy's 74 Chevy C20. I don't know what they put in them, but it sure makes a difference.
My under the hood jack 1969 f250 still works I tried it out recently man deal breakers back then counting nickles and dimes i wont pay 3:50 more for a ford 😊
Awesome comparison video!
My first truck at 16 was a 1970 D100
Dodge DUDE. Maroon and white. 318 and auto. I miss that truck,
Congratulations on the Dodge dude very well truck I seen a replica of a Dodge dude that somebody just bought the sticker kit out of some old new old stock. It’s amazing to me how many of these trucks are around that people just stopped using because they were archaic no air conditioning cruise control arcade bench seats but a lot of them were still use this old farm trucks
Did dodge make a panel truck version of the D100?
Back then, Dodge was brand X when it came to trucks. Even looked half assed. Ford and Chevy led the game.
Lol this video makes me love my 1970 3 on the tree Chevrolet C/10 more and more. Fun truck, and I think the C/10 is the best looking. Although I rarely ever see any old Dodges driving around, mostly see Chevys and Fords. Makes me a little skeptical about buying a Dodge truck. But if it's an old Dodge muscle car, I'm in!
Oh man give me that loaded Ford XLT with the 390 and automatic that's a sweet ride !!
You know they always say your biggest competition is who you got to go against
My best one at that time was the ford
Best one there was and the most sought after. The 67-72 Chevrolet trucks