Mopar Truck Of The Month For March 2014: 2/6/2014 Update: I was the second owner of a 1974 dodge 1/2 ton 318 engine automatic transmission long bed pickup truck. The ordinal owner moved from Colorado to Western Washington. I wanted one from the moment they came out in 1973 and he didn't need it anymore. I was trying to wear out my 67 dodge pickup but I failed so I gave it away. Well the 74 never got any rest and soon had over 200 hundred thousand miles on it. The engine was tired. Well I prefer standard tranny so it was converted to a 4 speed manual and the V/8 engine was replaced with a used slant 6. The V/8 was rebuilt then sold and was still running many years later in the owners pickup truck. OH!! I said the engine was tired, well when dismantled the timing chain just fell off. Well it was my service truck and it never got a break but it was a bit short on gears so an advanced adapters overdrive tranny was answered. The truck never got a rest and that engine was tiring so it was rebuilt.

I sold my home in the country and simplified my life by moving into an apartment. Now the troubles started. The apartment manager said that the truck was to decrypted to leave here so I parked it at my sons. He was using it as much as I was anyhow but the fact that the manager wouldn't allow me to keep it here kind of irked me. Well the truck was hit and the insurance company totaled it and I bought it back and it did wind up with a miss matched front end and door, well one fender was still original .It wasn't all that pretty. My son and I decided to fix it up and I always liked the 79 and 80 duel headlight models and I located a 79 Ramcharger front clip. Oh I wanted to two fuel tanks so I got another bed and tank from a two fuel tank model. Of course it was a different color Maybe the manager did have a point, regardless the fixing began. A chrome tub bar grill was modified and installed, the interior had already worn out several seats so we changed again and added a Ramcharger counsel.

Years back I had the his and hers 70 dodge chargers, specially painted them lemon yellow, plum crazy and FED EX lavender. Every body liked them, of course hers was an automatic and mine was a 4 speed. And they turned heads. The truck was painted in the same color combination Next came the bells and whistles and when finished it could make a blind person smile. OH we added an advanced adapters overdrive tranny giving me a 12 speed manual gear combination, double overdrive. If you drove it carefully 27 and a 1/2 miles. Larry's D100 was originally featured in July 2008.

Larry Heister - Sumner, WA