1937 Plymouth PT-50 Pickup
Plymouth built pickup trucks for only five years before World War II ended the program, and the 1937 PT-50 was the first of them.
Introduced so that Plymouth dealers not paired with Dodge could offer a commercial vehicle, the PT-50 shared its truck chassis (on a 116-inch wheelbase) with the Dodge pickup of the same year, though its sheet metal was unique to the Plymouth truck line rather than borrowed from Plymouth passenger cars.
The exterior followed passenger car styling cues without sharing body panels, with rounded fenders, torpedo-style headlights, and a fender-mounted spare tire included as standard.
The six-foot bed measured 47.5 inches wide, safety glass was fitted throughout, and a chrome front bumper was standard equipment; the rear bumper cost extra.
Power came from Plymouth’s 201 CI L-head inline-six, rated at 70 horsepower in truck trim, paired with a three-speed manual transmission featuring silent helical gears in second speed.
Of approximately 14,700 Plymouth commercial vehicles produced for the model year, 10,709 were PT-50 pickups (the strongest sales year the commercial line would see). The program was discontinued after 1941 and never revived following the war.
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