I keep telling my friends that i need to sell some cars becouse i have to many. With two 50:s Dodge that have waiting forever to be fixed and a hotrodbuild that allso take forever to get done. I allso have a oftopic Van i want to fix. I dont know who i try to fool. Of course i need "just" one more. So this weekend i get myself another Dodge to the collection. A 1941 Dodge club coupe. A stock and functional one. It would be a great looking early Custom or a cool hotrod depending what i do with it. But for now i just keep it as is and drive it. Time will tell if i do something with it or not.
I get it, when a certain make/model that's on your "list" of desirable cars come up, it's hard to refrain from adding yet another one to the collection. I often think how much easier it would be to just concentrate/own only one, less space to occupy, less insurance costs, etc. Oh well, practicality isn't our strong suit.
I like the 41 Dodge too. It being a runner is pretty good shape provides a good reason to buy it, a guy needs something he can drive. The hard part is to not take it apart to improve things and just keep it as a driver. Hopefully you can just keep driving the old Dodge until you get the hot rod build you have already started, road worthy. I'll be cheering you on towards both of those goals from over here. Enjoy driving the old Dodge as one of the great driving cars that they were back then.
Congratulations, best thing is it looks to be all there. I'll bet those Spartons deliver a sweet but serious message.
If you can´t afford a Dodge, dodge a Ford! It looks like you did everything right, hahaaha. On a more serious note, my grandmother, who unfortunately passed away at age 99 ( with only 2 weeks before her 100s birthday) exactly 2 years ago, had plans of what she wanted to do for at least 10 more years.So I think it´s better to run out of time then to run out of projects and be bored to death at the end of my life.
A Dodge pulling a Dodge back home with your other Dodges? Okay, typical car crazy dude. Sweden!?! You are a next level crazy, @AndersF , in a GOOD way!
Thats true. Other than service and change of wheels and tires i dont plan to do anything with it. I have my 63 Chrysler, Dodge 53 and 2 motorcycles so i was not out of fun rides. But these coupes are just so beutiful and the price was fair so i could not resist buying it. I use to joke with my kids that all my junk is not my problem when the time come. To have something to keep you motivated when you wake up really make the life worth living. Thats a beutiful truck. The 63 Chrysler, hotrod and my modern Ford van is the only non Dodge cars i have.
Hey. In the pic of it under cover, what are the three red devices between the trucks that look like a lift of some sort?
Dodge is a peculiar brand. They had some of the ugliest models ever produced and then they have had some of the best looking models. Wondering if they had a design team change? I love the late 50's-60's pass car, but take a look at the early 50's cars.....yuck. No offense to the MOPAR lovers. Nice collection of cars you have my friend. I can't imagine how hard it must be finding US made cars in Sweden.
A lot of times, Dodge (and the entire Chrysler company) was the industry leader in body design changes, starting way back at the company beginnings in 1917 (Dodge) and 1924 (Chrysler). Their designers were often thinking outside of the box, looking towards the future. Leading the pack often means you have some real winners, and some real losers. Through the very late 40s and early 50s, Chrysler was strapped in body design by the company CEO and the things he thought every car should have. Unfortunately, his opinion was pretty outdated at that time frame, and the car sales reflected that. By the early 50s, a new designer was employed, and his designs carried the company through the mid and late 50s before his ideas became too old. That restarted the designer revolving door at the company. New designs took a year or two before they actually showed up in the car show room. With that in mind, you can pretty we;ll see the 5 or so year cycle of the designers reign from the mid 50s on (and before if you go back and look). Often the next team of designers changed the entire design platform from the team before it. If you look at the designs, that also becomes pretty clear.
Yup, prior to Virgil Exner era, Dodge allowed their designs to be controlled by the engineering department, not the visual designer. But Dodge finally wised up and let the artists design the appearance of the car. He really did alot for the company with their Forward look cars and pushed Chry Co forward in the design department and really ahead of the competition. Virgil had some real hits and some real flops. If you are interested in hearing more about this topic, look up the Horsepower Heritage podcast. The host does a whole episode on this exact topic. It's pretty interesting.
We have plenty of US cars here so finding one is not hard. The ones that is hard to find is the same as in US. But to find parts can sometimes be a challange if you own a mid 50:s or older.
On the topic of body design, I'll give one more data point. Chrysler tried an advanced design that really was ahead of it's time and got burned. This caused the company to be less risk taking in design for a long time. This is a 1934 model.
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