My 1943 Dodge Carryall is a Cummins Turbo Diesel
http://imageevent.com/moosecreekmaple/1943dodgecarryall
In 2005 she took me to Labrador
http://imageevent.com/moosecreekmaple/translabrador2005

My 1954 Dodge M37 is also a Cummins Turbo Diesel, almost completed.
http://imageevent.com/moosecreekmaple/m37project

My 1970 Dodge Power Wagon will be a Cummins Turbo Diesel this winter
http://imageevent.com/moosecreekmapl...ebeepowerwagon

Does anyone else have old iron with a CTD ?

8Valve

 

I come from a 100% GM family; Dad, Mom, Aunt and Uncle, brother and cousins pretty much everybody drove GM. One day IN '00 my cousin comes rolling up with this then brand new ex. cab short bed CTD w/ 6 spd. He got picked on a good bit for switching to Dodge, till ya rode with him. 3 years later my brother announces that he is looking into a new truck, couple weeks later he comes rolling up the driveway in his new at the time '03 Q.C. short bed CTD w/ 6spd. He didn't get made fun of quite so much. I took a little longer to be swayed, but my brother kept trying. "Take my truck for a ride, you are goin to like it. Then last year in Feb. I said I had had enough, time to try one of these things out.

Found the truck online via Autotrader on Sunday afternoon, showed it to my brother, he gets excited. Monday night, we drive 2 hours to see the truck after work. Negotiate, get trade number for my old Blazer. gave the guy a deposit, went back Wednesday to pick it up, and came home with my used 04.5 Q.C CTD w/ 6spd. I just couldn't see buying new, too much $$$ for me at the time. Oh and BTW, nobody even bothered teasing me on mine, they have all learned at this point...
Now we are trying to convince dad to retire his '78 Chevy shortbed with about 220k on it for a reg. cab CTD

 

My story is lame. Always been around diesels but never owned one. I get home late from work usually 3am or so and sometimes would ride around dealer lots looking. One night I saw my truck in grey like I wanted with the manual. Next day by lunch it was mine.

 

My dad bought a '99 QC long bed 5 speed new. After driving it loaded and empty, I knew a Cummins was the way to go. I had my dealer locate mine as there weren't any '07 Mega G56 trucks available locally when I wanted one. Dealer here traded a dealer in Arkansas for the truck and 2 days later it arrived. Longest 48 hours I can remember. Everything else I own is Chevy. Wife's got a 2002 Tahoe Z71, I've got a '72 Chevy Cheyenne Super and a '67 Chevy Drag Truck.

 

I was planning to order one in Spring `07, but when I learned of the switch to the 6.7 and its smog stuff I went straight to the dealer (in Sept `06) and ordered mine new, optioned exactly the way I wanted it.

 

I had been looking for a pickup a bit. I wanted a 3/4 ton and diesel, but I figured I could only afford a gasser.

I had posted on a 4x4 web board about needing to borrow a right angle drill. Well one of the guys on there I didn't know shot me a msg and told me to come by his place, he had a drill I could borrow.

There was a nice Cummins parked by the curb with a For Sale sign. I asked him about it, and it was his.
He had been trying to sell it for several months with no luck. He wanted 16k and had dropped to 14k. I said "Well... would you take $12,000 for it?... and that's how I got it. We also agree to split whatever parts it needed 50/50 too. (needed brakes, some seals, a wiper motor, like $300 in stuff)

 

My 77 Dodge M880 popped something loose in the auto trans one day and I had to tow it home from the city. I was tired of getting 8-9mpg anyway, so I borrowed a pile of money from my parents and went looking for a cummins. I really wanted a five speed extra cab, and I did find one but it was gone by the time I got the money transferred to my account. Then I missed another one that was a standard cab. I was driving my parents' chevy big block truck, but it was a gas guzzler and they didn't want me mucking up the back with all my work gear and tools, so I really needed to get a truck soon so I could get back to work (custom sawmilling full time back then). I finally found this one in a farm newspaper class ad, over three hundred miles away. As soon as I got off the phone with the guy I headed out the door to get it.

The guy was the second owner of the truck and had built a custom steel flatbed for it and had been running his horseshoeing business out of the truck for years. He had a new baby on the way and his wife made him get a new chevy double cab "for the baby" (they did horse shows as a family I think). He was already hating the new truck and missing the dodge.

I paid $7000 and went and rented a trailer to haul my car home on.

 

8Valve, Those are some beautiful old Dodges you have there. I'll be looking for you at the VPW Rally this summer. I'm going to bring my 78 I think.

Anyways to my story.....

I've always been a Dodge truck man. I have seen every model and know everything about them. So I went in head first knowing what I wanted. Needless to say I didn't get it. I ended up with a very, very, very clean 05 1500 Big Horn Hemi quad cab truck. Red with black leather. I traded my R/T in on it cause it was winter and I needed a new dependable truck. Well that truck just didn't cut it. I knew what I needed. I needed a real workhorse that could do what my ol' Power Wagons could do. So I went hunting again for a 3500 Cummins. After 3 months of searching throughout the summer and about 100 calls to dealers. I found my truck at a dealer in Missouri.

The truck was at a little dealer in a small farming town near Jefferson city. The truck was just what I wanted, 6 spd and all. It has originally been outfitted with a flatbed for the farmer who had bought it. Well luckily this dealership does alot of C&C trucks so they had the smarts enough to store the bed for the guy. When he traded in the truck for a new 07 they put the bed and bumper back on. Not a scratch on the back half. Needless to say being in the construction and automotive business I have all but ruined the paint inside the bed. I couldn't be happier with my truck. It was well worth the wait. I got it at about 6 grand less than what I expected to pay.

 

had been looking at diesels for awhile. the one i got had been on the lot for 3 months i looked at it several times. finally called because a friend was a salesman there. it had 25k miles very clean but it was sold. i went by the lot on sun and it was still there so i called him at home he said if it is still there when i go in on mon i will give you a shot at it. the rest is history

 

Sorry to jack the thread but 1943 there couldn't be more than a handful of those. Was that a military vehicle? The body panels look flawless as in you could've shot the whole thing down in shiny black. I know that was a ton of work all in itself. I've got a 49 F-1 Ford about half way through a resto. Been sitting that way for 15 years now. I just dont have the time anymore. I've often dreamed about ditching the 351C replacing it with a 12v though.

 

I saw that truck!!!! I emailed the guy that evening and it was already sold to your friend I guess, thats just my luck
Oh well, I found another one. I just bought mine this past november. I had a 99' ford f-350 powerjoke and decided it was time to get a real truck so I sold it then started searching for a cummins. I found mine in southern Mississippi just over 700 miles away from my place, it was a 1 owner truck with an excellent maintenance history, a well known older gentleman from the small town I found it in owned it and brought it back to the dealer it came from to trade it in on a new car, he was getting up in years and didnt the truck anymore. It had 208k miles on it , alot of them were highway miles pulling his horse trailer. It has had only wix oil and fuel filters run on it ever since it was new and had a change of rotella every 5k miles. I searched for a truck with that kinda history and finally found one, I plan on keeping up what the previous owner started and dont plan on selling this truck ever I'll probably run her up to 400k or 500k then put it in the garage and restore it

 

i also had owned chevy diesels and still do. but i wanted a pickup to pull my gooseneck once in a while. so i watched the paper for better than a year for a low mile five speed stick extra cab . well in 2000 i saw my93 with 80k or so and a five speed 4x4 so i went and looked and was bit . its not an extra cab. but it was very low miles and still only has 92k today. never had to fix anything on it yet. oh thats right gotta ad more rear spring to get rid of wrapping them. will be working on a 78 ccab shortly.

 

Thanks for the kind words. I shoot satin black on all my trucks along with the mask over the windshield. Its my color scheme. My trucks go off road and the satin is easier to keep looking good than a High Gloss. Good Luck on your 49 F-1......Get'er done, it will be a beautiful truck.

8Valve

 

Sort of lucked out on mine. I was dumping tons of money into an Intrepid that was falling apart, while towing my boat with the wife's E-150 van (at it's max towing wt). So I told the wife it is time for me to get something to tow the boat with, that gets good mileage, and will last for several years at 70 mile daily commute. Diesel truck was my answer.

Started the hunt locally as there is a dealer here that deals in used trucks and has a lot of diesels. Looked at one Dodge but the wife wouldn't let me get it as it was a work truck (rubber floor mats, bed beat up, gooseneck in the bed). She didn't think it was pretty enough. Asked the dealer and he actually pointed me to a Dodge dealer that "may" have one.

Checked that dealer, and fell in love instantly with my truck. Sold the salesman my Intrepid on the spot for his daughter in college, and bought my truck.

 

well, my truck began life in april of 97, wich I believe is almost the end of the 97 production year. It was ordered and bought by a fellow who owned a large dairy operation in the northern part of indiana and southern Michigan. He owned it till 2001 when he decided he wanted a 6 speed. Drove it down here and traded it in on a 2001 6speed cummins. Well my grandpa saw it sittin on the lot the day that he traded it in and went in and started dealing on it as he needed something to pull his 31' fifth wheel camper. So my grandpa bought it for I believe $15,000 at the time it had 32,000 miles on it. That next year he used it to tow his camper to Alaska and tour around it, putting 12,000 miles on it in 2 months grossing around 23K, never had a problem. So he got home and the truck sat there for a bit, towed a few more times, then he decided he needed an ext. cab. So he went out and bought a 2001 ford powerstroke with all the fancies. He was going to trade this dodge in but decided to keep it in case he ever needed it. Well the truck sat there from 2002 to april of 2007 and was driven maybe 5,000 miles. I got my license in april and asked him if he'd sell it. He said of course, because that's why he'd kept it for so long. So I bought it in april with a grand total of 48,000 miles on the clock. Straight piped it the next day. I changed a few minor things like wheels and tires, injectors, tranny, timing, pump mods intake, tint sterio and now a turbo. And it now has 54,000 miles on it. I'm real proud of it. sorry for the long story.