Truck ID

[LouE]

Can anyone tell me what year/model this truck was? 

[Dodgeboy49]

Looks like a '54, since it has the early cab and beveled bed rails. Hood medallion indicates a flathead-6. Hard to tell if those are 15" rims, but if they are it would probably be a 3/4 ton. They also offered a heavy-half around that time which had the bigger box (which this appears to have) but also had 16" rims.  Looks like it has a good load on; is there a story behind this truck?

[kencombs]

Agree w/54.   I wonder if the front bumper guards are factory?  I don't think I've ever seen those before and would like some on my 56.

[Dodgeb4ya]

Those certainly look like OE guards.

[wallytoo]

agree with rob, those bumper overriders look original, like the smaller outer ones on my ‘48.

 

[JBNeal]

1954 or early '55 half-ton long bed with factory bumper guards

C-1-B6-116

spare tire MIA

[LouE]

Yes, the truck belonged to a bachelor uncle who farmed two parcels about 5 miles apart. The bumper guards I'm pretty sure were OE. The brackets outside each bumper guard were used to hitch the truck to his Oliver Row Crop 66 tractor when moving from one farm to the other. Usually he pulled a flat bed wagon behind the truck. I recall bags of seed in the pickup bed and bags of fertilizer in the wagon. It was a common sight seeing his caravan - tractor, pickup, wagon - go through town when going from one farm to the other. He eventually traded it in on a 1976 Dodge Pickup. I would like to find a similar pickup for a tribute to him. The spare tire normally rode in the bed where it was more accessible if needed than under the truck.

[LouE]

I did have a flathead 6 engine. Wasn't 1953 the last year for the pilothouse pickups?

[wallytoo]

‘53 was the last year for the b-series.  dodge still used the term “pilothouse” in advertising literature for the c-series.

[JBNeal]

additional information - Pilot-House definitions