The 1935 Dodge KC half - ton pickup trace its design roots to 1933 , when Dodge bravely risk an expensive restyle in the unfit class of the Great Depression .
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While overall motortruck sale increased modestly in that devastated economy , the 1933 Dodge Series HC was exactly what the market wanted : Dodge truck enrolment skyrocket up over 320 pct , past 28,000 social unit . During 1933 , a amount of 38,841 Dodge trucks left the Hamtramck , Michigan , mill .
The 1934 heir , Dodge Series KC , was little exchange in styling , which manifestly was the right decision , but it was improved mechanically .
There was a largerengine– a Dodge 201.3 - cid six instead of the modest Plymouth 190 – and a drop - forged I - beam front axle replaced the tubular - type . enrollment go up again , by 72 percent .
Thus , Dodge sweep into 1935 full of self-assurance , its light - duty trucks again little revised , but now carrying steel - roofed cab with front - hinged door . By now they did n’t seem so much like the passenger gondola , which had received two styling facelifts , but the trucks did n’t take any .
Business was so good that output lucubrate into Los Angeles and Canadian works .
A stock - wheel - base KC pickup be $ 480 , which happened to be the same cost as a half - long ton Ford . Prices were dispirited , because hardly anything was standard .
Still , the options did n’t be much : $ 7 for chrome bumper , $ 4 for a second wiper , $ 2 each for a hood ornament and interior peak , $ 3 for an air dry cleaner , $ 5 for safety - glass windshield , $ 7 for a metallic element tire cover .
bountiful plunge was $ 15 , which bought a chromed radiator shell and headlamps , plus hydraulic cushion absorbers . Also uncommitted was a sixth cycle – six telegram wheels , four tires , and a 2d ( driver’s - side ) cycle well be only $ 10 extra .
production for 1935 uprise again , to 83,701 truck . For 1936 , Dodge restyled the light truck personal line of credit and rode to even capital success , but the 1937 receding cut volume short again .
The 1935 Dodge KC half - ton pick-me-up was clearly one of the most successful Dodge trucks of a dreary decennium .
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