1946 Dodge W-Series

Description 1946 Dodge WC Series Pick Up Straight 6-Cyl and a 3-Spd Manual on the Floor! Our WC Series Dodge Pick Up is an ALL Metal Restoration done quite sometime ago as it was Cherished by a private new MoPar Dodge Dealer and collector. From what I can tell, this was a local towney truck that happened to be serviced or somehow known to the upstate NY Dodge Dealer because he ended up purchasing not one but two of the trucks owned by original owner. Obviously with the means to have it maintained and looked after, the truck was thoroughly restored and parked where it was seldomly used. When we acquired it as part of a much larger purchase in late 2023, we found it with old gasoline that had gone fowl and an inch of dust on it. A New battery, fuel, filters, carburetor rebuild with oem/nos carb rebuild kit, distributor work, and some tinkering,,, the truck started right up and runs great. We proceeded to rub and polish the exterior and after getting excited over how nice it shined we decided to pull the bed boards and restain them. In my opinion, it just made the truck pop! The Vintage Firestone Wide Whites are nice but are a bit squared from slumbering for so long. If this was stored like the other vehciles acquired then it has been dormant for about a couple decades.With streamlined, Art Deco–style front sheetmetal, and introducing the concept of "Job-Rated" truck configurations, Dodge tried to offer customers the truck that fit any job they were buying it for,[3] literally comparing it to the process and user experience of buying shoes. As a result, the 1939 to 1947 Dodge truck range was offered in a bewilderingly large number of available variants and model codes. Six different payload classes, a wide range of bodies, and more than twenty different wheelbase lengths were manufactured, and fitted with different sized versions of the straight six-cylinder Chrysler "Flathead" side-valve engines – from the half-ton TC pickup truck on a 116-inch wheelbase to three-ton tractor cabs. In 1940 alone, 20 different truck frames were simultaneously produced in the same year, which increased to 31 different chassis frames, for 17 wheelbase lengths in 1947. Nevertheless, mechanically, the trucks were all very similar, with solid axles front and rear and leaf springs at all four corners. With World War II taking up most of production capacity from 1942 to 1945, the 1939 styling continued largely unchanged through 1947, as engineering and production became the main focus. The Dodge trucks enjoyed some popularity before the war, and the last of them – built in 1942, before Dodge turned to mostly military production – had progressed to the W-series model name. When commercial sales of the trucks restarted post-war, they resumed as the 1946 Dodge W-series. We sell and ship worldwide as well as offer low interest extended term financing Read More