1934 Dodge Is the Eye-Popping Hot-n-Pink Pickup Truck You Can't Unsee

By pickup trucks of old I mostly mean the early half-ton machines put together by Ford and Chevrolet. The likes of the F-1, F-100, the Advance-Design, or the C/K have that certain je ne sais quoi that makes them highly desirable even to our day.

Add to their innate appeal the glamour and usefulness of the upgrades made in shops all across America and it's easy to see why almost any auction or large car sale taking place in the States has its share of wonderfully modified pickups.

At the end of this month auction house Mecum will kick off exactly such an event in Dallas, Texas. Hundreds of vehicles are on a lookout for a new owner, and among them quite a diverse assortment of pickups.

Most of them (some of which we've already featured here on autoevolution) are members of the families mentioned above, but there are notable (to say the least) exceptions that shine just as bright.

Like this eye-popping pink 1934 Dodge truck made in a pure hot rod style. It's one of the vehicles that, even in the off chance it won't sell, will still be remembered as one of the highlights of the Dallas auction.

Born at a time when the world was just exiting the Great Depression and getting ready for the Second World War, the truck (or at least some remnants of it) survived to our day, when it got remade at the hands of an unknown garage into something that now goes by the name Hot-n-Pink.

The reason behind the name is more than obvious. We're dealing with a pink hot rod the likes of which we rarely get to see, exciting and nauseating at the same time.

The exciting bits are owed to its shape. We're dealing with a classic-style machine, with the engine compartment at the front and the bed at the rear sandwiched between the massive curved fenders going over the wheels.

At the front a positively huge radiator grille is flanked by two round and simply delicious headlights, matching the design of the mirrors that adorn the two doors further back. The cabin is typically pickup, large and squarish with four windows. Below it sit running boards so large it's like they've been made to carry kids or pets stacked on top of each other.

As for the nauseating part of the deal, that's more than obvious. The thing is pink, and even if that's not such a strange color to use on Dodges, including the ones of the muscle car variety, it looks particularly unappealing on such a build. At least to these eyes.

The pink is virtually spread everywhere, with only the headlights and mirrors, and the American Racing Torque Thrust wheels of undisclosed size bringing a touch of something else, in this case chrome. Oh, and there are also the wood boards placed in the bed, but that's about it.

As soon as the suicide doors move out of the way, the interior reveals itself as being even worse in the choice-of-color-and-material department, blending pink and an assortment of other colors on the seats with purple carpeting, a maple dash, and a very out-of-place Grant GT steering wheel. A set of Classic Instruments gauges have been fitted in the center of the dashboard.

If you were expecting some sort of mechanical revolution under the hood, forget it. The truck flaunts a rather unpretentious 360ci engine of unspecified output, running an automatic transmission. The unit shows almost 12,500 miles (20,000 km) of use on it.

The truck is presently part of a collection known as the Don Johnson, an incredible gathering of objects that goes from tons of automobilia to various Chevrolets and Fords. It will go under the Mecum hammer with an apparent reserve, but with no mention as to how much it is expected to fetch.

We have no information on the 1934 Dodge Hot-n-Pink selling at some other similar event in the past, so it's impossible to tell how things will go for the pink pickup truck you can't unsee.

For reference, though, you should know other such builds, less eye-popping in appearance, come with price stickers that even go in the $80,000 range - but generally sit at around $25,000.

We will of course keep an eye out for the Hot-n-Pink to see what it does in Dallas at the end of the month, and we will update this story should anything truly remarkable will happen. Until then, make sure you go through the attached gallery and decide if the color and material choices of this build are worth your money.