Description
Lot #789 - Rare Dodge D-10 Sweptside pickup. Total frame-off rebuild of a California/Arizona truck. Old California title will be included. Optional 318ci V8 engine producing 205hp plus automatic transmission with push-button drive. Very straight and solid body is finished in original two-tone in original two-tone colors of Blue Sand and Dune White. Restored interior is finished in the deluxe version of two-tone cloth and vinyl, matching the exterior colors. Pickup box floor is restored with highly varnished natural oak and new bed strips. All chrome is new or replated. Chassis and engine compartment are show detailed. Other options included power steering, chrome front and rear bumpers, two-tone paint, air conditioning, radio, fresh new whitewall tires mounted on Chrysler chrome wire wheels. These low production trucks were not produced on the assembly line, but were put together with hand labor in a Special Equipment section. Today there are no factory records of production. Produced until January of 1959. Danbury mint has sold a model of the Sweptside pickup and Hallmark has produced Christmas ornament.