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Job-Rated 1952 Dodge B Series Gets Your Mind off All the Fords and Chevys

If you’ve been following our Truck Month coverage this February, you might have noticed there are a lot of Ford and Chevrolet vehicles in there. That’s because there are also many Fords and Chevrolets out there, apparently suffocating everything else.
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Photo: Streetside Classics
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But there are trucks made by other brands that are definitely worth a look. On the new vehicle market, we have RAM and Toyota, both playing their part in pickup trucks occupying five of the top ten spots for best selling vehicles in America last year. On the pre-owned and custom market, the offering is, of course, much more diverse because there we also have truck brands that are no longer being made.

Take Dodge, for instance. The Stellantis marque presently only sells five models, none of which are trucks. Granted, the carmaker’s configurator does include a very prominent link to RAM’s website as a nod to a distant past when it too made trucks branded with the name.

Long before the RAM nameplate came into the spotlight, Dodge was making things like the B Series. It was a range of pickup trucks and vans that came in 1948 to replace the pre-war machines the company used to assemble. It was in production for just five years, until 1953, which makes any surviving examples a potential shot at a small fortune.

The 1952 B Series we have is one of those who have made it across time to our day, and it did so while retaining most of its original self. Sporting the Job-Rated badge on the center of the grille as a nod to the earlier T, V and W series, it is powered by a 236ci (3.9-liter) flathead engine believed to be original to the truck.

Build as a flatbed, the B Series is a clear beneficiary of proper maintenance and some restoration work, enough of them to warrant a $24,995 asking price on Streetside Classics.
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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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