Never heard of this. Fact or Fiction?

[Professor Fate]

Okay, I've never claimed to have heard it all or seen it all- but I haven't lived under a rock my whole life, either. This is a totally new one to me:
MSN
All I've ever heard of or seen is the 413/426W CSS trucks, and they're far from common themselves. But no Hemis. Plenty of home-brewed versions, but not from the factory.
Thoughts? Or is it just more AI generated garbage that the Matrix hopes we won't notice?

 

[jos51700]

AI bullshit

 

[RustyRatRod]

I have to agree it's probably something fabricated to appear real. I know somebody in Stone Mountain that HAS a factory 426 Wedge truck and has all kinda literature on it. It needs restoring, but it does run and drive. I just find it hard to believe there's been a Hemi truck all these DECADES and no one's ever heard of it before.

 

[Lefty71]

That entire article smells like horse-pucky.
No pix, except the ONE showing an obviously modded vehicle.... anyone who owned such a museum piece would never change a thing on it. The article states that custom brackets etc. had to be made, then states that couldnt be done "for production". Well, if the factory did it once, then they can do it for production, as everything is already in place to do so. Not one shred of documentation or fender tag even mentioned.

 

[33IMP]

After ai, you have to see it with your own eyes, in person to believe anything.
I believe a factory hemi pickup truck is 100% ai bullshit.




Well, a gen 2 hemi. Lots of gen threes, obviously.

 

[tom999w]

I think it's one of those fakes that someone tries to pass off as being real, to cash in by having a pot o' gold in his driveway; just like the "1 of 1" Yenko Vega station wagon, or the one of a kind Tucker convertible....All B.S.

 

[RustyRatRod]

That entire article smells like horse-pucky.
No pix, except the ONE showing an obviously modded vehicle.... anyone who owned such a museum piece would never change a thing on it. The article states that custom brackets etc. had to be made, then states that couldnt be done "for production". Well, if the factory did it once, then they can do it for production, as everything is already in place to do so. Not one shred of documentation or fender tag even mentioned.

Right and we all KNOW there's TONS OF ROOM in the truck engine bays. A 426 Hemi wouldda almost fit in there TWICE.

 

[Professor Fate]

Yeah, LOTS of quirks in the article that make no practical sense.
In '64, the factory was just getting the Hemi into the hands of a select few stock car racers, and were otherwise in relatively short supply. They were a race-only offering, not intended for street duty of any kind. Much less in a truck.
It also mentions automatic and four-speed versions. D series trucks had a hydraulic clutch system well into the late 60s, but the bellhousing used was incompatible with the A833. Which would leave it saddled with the granny-low NP435... behind a Hemi? Not even in Timothy Leary's most LSD-addled fantasies.
I just find it mind blowing that editors (if they even exist anymore) don't require any fact-checking or verification of any kind before they publish something that's completely BS. Ah, the times we live in now.

 

[Professor Fate]

Right and we all KNOW there's TONS OF ROOM in the truck engine bays. A 426 Hemi wouldda almost fit in there TWICE.

Yeah, I've seen Cummins and V10s stuffed into the old Sweptlines without major engine bay mods.

 

[HemiSSDart]

Okay, I've never claimed to have heard it all or seen it all- but I haven't lived under a rock my whole life, either. This is a totally new one to me:
MSN
All I've ever heard of or seen is the 413/426W CSS trucks, and they're far from common themselves. But no Hemis. Plenty of home-brewed versions, but not from the factory.
Thoughts? Or is it just more AI generated garbage that the Matrix hopes we won't notice?

In the early 90's I visited a guy in Missouri named Tom that had a fleet of Sweptsides and Sweptlines and had a 66 or 67 Sweptline with what looked like factory holes for the 426 HEMI emblems on the front fenders. When he bought it that is what the original owner told him was in it, he took the engine out to put in a drag car. Of course there were no motor mounts in the engine bay so no way to document it. Of course I didn't have a camera with me, but being Chrysler you can never say never...

 

[MadScientistMat]

Last time this came up, I was able to find the blue truck in the article on Mecum. It was a custom build with a Wedge motor. Neither factory nor Hemi.

 

[mbaird]

Why are the Dodge 60s trucks referred to as Sweptines ? When I sold and ordered Dodge trucks in the 80s the beds were either Sweptlines ( flat sided) or Utililines ( stepside) .
Same goes for Gen 1 , Gen2 etc… the monikers seem off a generation or 2 .

 

[A56]

Where are the pictures of vins and documentation that is talked about and who are these "historians" AND who the hell is Danielle Gibson?


As for how many were made? That's part of the legend. According to Classic Industries, the Custom Sports Special (CSS) package trim was available from 1964 to 1967. However, the 426 Street HEMI option was limited through special-order channels. Most historians estimate that fewer than 50 units were built, and only about 11 to 30 have ever been confirmed by VIN and factory documentation. It's possible that as few as a dozen ever made it into customers' hands, making it one of the rarest HEMI-powered vehicles Dodge ever produced.

 

[Super-Cuda]

I'm thinking the writer of the article, Danielle Gibson of MSN (Fake News) knows nothing about the Chrysler Corporation back in the day and confused a 426 Wedge engine with a 426 Hemi.

Typical "**** for brains" reporting without proper fact check.

Here's the real Hot Rod Magazine article she refers to.

Note no reference to the actual word "Hemi" when describing the truck in the article.

Hemi-Powered 1964 Dodge D-100 Custom Sports Special Was a Rebel

 

[FISHYPETE]

The Sweptline was introduced in 1959 when the Sweptside model was discontinued

Why are the Dodge 60s trucks referred to as Sweptines ? When I sold and ordered Dodge trucks in the 80s the beds were either Sweptlines ( flat sided) or Utililines ( stepside) .
Same goes for Gen 1 , Gen2 etc… the monikers seem off a generation or 2 .

 

[jos51700]

I have the world's ONLY one of one '72 Swinger with a FACTORY ORIGINAL 5.9 Magnum installed in it. It was prototype car that slipped outta the factory. Nevermind that the vin on the engine comes back to a '99 pickup; that's just a coincidence because they used the EXACT SAME numbering system on the '72 prototype engines.

The archives burnt down in '76, that's why nobody but me knows how rare this car is.

No lowballers, I know what I got

 

[mbaird]

The Sweptline was introduced in 1959 when the Sweptside model was discontinued

Ok. , but when ordering a truck in the 80s you had a choice of either a sweptside or a utililine bed . That’s what throws me off.

 

[RustyRatRod]

I have the world's ONLY one of one '72 Swinger with a FACTORY ORIGINAL 5.9 Magnum installed in it. It was prototype car that slipped outta the factory. Nevermind that the vin on the engine comes back to a '99 pickup; that's just a coincidence because they used the EXACT SAME numbering system on the '72 prototype engines.

The archives burnt down in '76, that's why nobody but me knows how rare this car is.

No lowballers, I know what I got

The sad thing is, if you really tried to pass it off like that, some dumbass out there somewhere would believe it.

 

[A56]

The sad thing is, if you really tried to pass it off like that, some dumbass out there somewhere would believe it.

Very similar to the ultra-rare 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Daytona.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Very similar to the ultra-rare 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Daytona.

ewwwwww

 

[tom999w]

Very similar to the ultra-rare 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Daytona.

Or the phony Tucker convertible.

The Official Site of the World's Only Tucker Convertible!

 

[FISHYPETE]

Sweptside was a three yr option only. 1957-1959

Ok. , but when ordering a truck in the 80s you had a choice of either a sweptside or a utililine bed . That’s what throws me off.

I think you are confusing it with Sweptline

 

[70SwingerGuy]

The sad thing is, if you really tried to pass it off like that, some dumbass out there somewhere would believe it.

Heres a couple of pics of my PT Cruiser that I used to own. I laid a nice set of flames on her, put some Harley stickers on the door glass, then had an airbrush friend of mine do the HD Special Edition graphic on the tailgate. Took it into the dealer one day for some work, and someone I know who worked there was telling me how people were talking about the car like it was an actual special edition from the factory

 

[HemiSSDart]

Heres a couple of pics of my PT Cruiser that I used to own. I laid a nice set of flames on her, put some Harley stickers on the door glass, then had an airbrush friend of mine do the HD Special Edition graphic on the tailgate. Took it into the dealer one day for some work, and someone I know who worked there was telling me how people were talking about the car like it was an actual special edition from the factory
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Before Ford made the Harley Davidson trucks Dodge actually had one in 1993. It came out as a 1994 model and I tried to win one at the 90th Anniversary of H-D. I do still have a diecast of it...

 

[jas0162]

I went to a guys place in MO back in the day to get a big block truck bellhousing. He had acres of dodge trucks, he was busy and let me explore- later on showed me around, great guy.

In a barn he had a css truck with no engine, I think he said they only made a dozen of them or so. I remember there was a guy there that day who had traveled there just to look at it, he was in a wheelchair. Some kind of sweptline enthusiast/historian guy, I think he had a css registry website? Anyway I wasn’t interested at the time. Young and dumb

He had a nice 69 I think 4 speed charger and a nice lil red truck in his shop

It may have been the same guy referred to in post #10. Tom does sound familiar. His brother delivered lumber where I worked in Pittsburg ks, saw I drove a dodge and told me about him


this was over 20 years ago