New ride!

Jarlaxle wrote:
GMC Syclone. :)

And, of course, the first: the 1963 Dodge Custom Sport Special. :D

Impressive, not many guys know about those .....and I had forgotten. Would love to find one.

GMC Syclone. :)

And, of course, the first: the 1963 Dodge Custom Sport Special. :D

FishOnOne wrote:
Congrats on the truck...

BTW the Dakota R/T 5.9 was in the same league as the Chevy 454SS and the Ford Lightning.

You can add two more Dodges to that list. The Ram SRT10 and the Lil Red Express. Also that little Chevy truck.....was it the Cyclone?

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

BTW allen8106 if a Ford Mustang HO is considered a "muscle car" then how could my little ole Dakota eat them for lunch?

Don

"Pony car"

Great little truck! Awesome find BTW...

Don't worry about the "haters" as the younguns say.

Some of the richest people I know (Millionaires) tend to drive used older stuff. Those tend to be the older gentlemen... One is a doctor who rocks a... 1999 Corvette...and he literally could have any car he wanted. :)

Thanks!

Congrats on the truck...

BTW the Dakota R/T 5.9 was in the same league as the Chevy 454SS and the Ford Lightning.

No, it was built in Toledo. I am abssolutely one hundred percent certain of this!

Congrats on the new truck John! But just a heads up, it was not built in Toledo, it was built at Warren Truck or Dodge City LINK

BTW allen8106 if a Ford Mustang HO is considered a "muscle car" then how could my little ole Dakota eat them for lunch?

Don

allen8106 wrote:

BillyW wrote:

allen8106 wrote:
Since when is a Dakota a "Muscle Truck".....really?

Ever since it was the ONLY non-full sized truck with a V8.

OK...I can dig that. Just never heard of a Dakota referred to as a muscle truck. I was thinking at least a diesel to be called a muscle truck.

I remeber one of the magazines (Hot Rod or Mopar Muscle) did some drag testing on one back in the day and they were running low 14's with a new bone stock Dakota. Not bad considering the pony cars at the time were running mid 14's!

I had a 92 5.2 reg cab short box, but mine was an SLT and 3:55 gears. That truck ran 14:40's all day long at the strip, and that was with little traction. I loved that truck. I traded it in for a custom ordered 97 reg cab short box SLT, but it only managed 15:20's. The 92 and 93's had different exhaust manifolds and camshaft which made them quicker, and as was mentioned, they packed on some heft with the next body style. Mopar Action magazine took a stripper 92 model and ran some 13's with it, unmodified. These are overlooked trucks when it comes to performance, 'cause they'll run.