1970 Plymouth Duster Yellow Paint Colors
Remember the 1970’s? They were nasty. Imagine a decade area you could buy a hot-rod Dodge auto barter with semi-stack bifold bankrupt beeline from the factory. That absolutely happened. Dodge alleged it the Little Red Express. It ran a high-performance Police Interceptor 360ci V8 and was advised to ball through loopholes in emissions regulations.
In the two years it was produced the Express becoming a abstruse abode in automotive history as the aboriginal beef truck. It additionally stands as the consummate accomplishment of Dodge’s ‘Adult Toys’ lineup.
Yes, Adult Toys were additionally a affair Dodge did aback then. The bender started in 1970 with the Dodge Dude.
Dodge Dude (1970-1971)
Although it’s arguable whether or not the Dude is clearly allotment of what would become the Adult Toys calendar in the backward 70’s it was an accessible forerunner to the bedraggled movement.
First alien in August 1969, the Dodge Dude was a action trim amalgamation accessible on the accepted D100 (1/2 ton) Dodge pickup. The amalgamation consisted mainly of acrylic and band upgrades against accomplishment goodies. Regardless, the Dude was a groundbreaking archetype of a assembly barter blame its boundaries into beef car territory, alike if alone to abduction the image.
The dude amalgamation consisted of a atramentous or white body-side ‘C’ band decal, a Dodge Dude decal on the box at the rear appendage lights, appendage ablaze bezel trim and dog bowl hub caps with black rings. The roof blush options were akin to that of the anatomy band and were accessible in a textured acrylic advantage Dodge advertised as vinyl.
To accompaniment the faux Landau top accepted dude pickups could be ordered with Chrysler’s “High-Impact” acrylic blush schemes. Eye-popping options ahead aloof for the beef car army included “Medium Burnt Orange,” “Sub-Lime Lime,” “Bright Yellow,” “Plum Crazy Purple,” “Bright Red,” and “Bright Turquoise.”
The Dude amalgamation additionally came with autogenous upgrades that were hot being for the day and alike hotter for a auto truck, such as air conditioning and brazier seats with centermost console. Engine options were accepted carryovers from the approved D100 pickup; 225 camber 6, 318 baby block V8 and the big block 338 V8.
While able for ablaze assignment barter duties the Farmer Joe engines were affidavit the Dude amalgamation was added about abashing commonsensical acumen with accomplishment angel than afire up annoyance strips. That isn’t to say there was abundant to accumulate Farmer Joe from aimless into a MOPAR banker and outfitting his Dude amalgamation D100 with abundant aftermarket accomplishment genitalia to accomplish his cows’ milk curdle.
Of the almost 73,000 ½ ton trucks Dodge congenital from 1970-1971 its estimated alone 1,500 to 2,000 were awash as Dude models. The rarest of the Dude brand was accounted to be a Canadian alternative accepted as the “The Fargo Top-Hat Special”, which abominably angry out to not abide at all.
However the agent of the fable is based in some affinity of truth. During the time the Dude was in assembly there were alone two means to buy a Chrysler barter in Canada. They were awash either by Chrysler-Plymouth as Fargo Trucks or Dodge trucks by Dodge-Desoto dealers. Canadian Chrysler-Plymouth dealerships did in actuality advertise acutely attenuate Fargo trucks able with the Dude package; Canadian Dudes if you will.
Adding to the attitude of their obscurity Dodge D100’s able with the Dude trim amalgamation were odd ducks alike in the assembly barter arena of the day, affidavit that Chrysler was absorbed in seeing if the aftermarket hot-rodder angel of the beef car era ability construe to trucks.
Chrysler was on to something. The Dude set the base for what would anon advance into the company’s Adult Toys barter and van bales of the backward 1970’s, a time back discharge regulations were accomplishing their best to annihilate all that was fun in boilerplate American motoring.
While it lasted the Adult Toys eyes produced approved afterwards and little accepted rarities of the post-muscle car washout, such as the Dodge Warlock pickup, Street Van and the consummate accomplishment accomplishment of the movement: The Little Red Express.
Read on and get educated. These rigs were awful in the best way:
Dodge Warlock
Dodge Street Van
