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IDAHO FALLS — EastIdahoNews.com is looking back at what life was like during the week of May 30 to June 5 in east Idaho history. 1900-1925 IDAHO FALLS — A husband and wife were involved in a murder-suicide in Idaho Falls, the Idaho Falls Register reported on June 4, 1909. William Lamp murdered his wife […]
In a captive import enterprise that began in 1979, Dodge sold Mitsubishi's compact pickup (aka Mighty Max in North America) to compete with the likes of the Ford (Mazda) Courier and the Chevrolet (Isuzu) LUV. Badged as the Ram 50, the truck was sold through two generations, 1979-1986 and 1987-1994. By the Nineties the second-gen was showing its age, and Dodge decided it would rather focus on its own midsize truck, the Dakota.But there was another captive import that arrived the very same time as the second edition of the Ram 50. Say hello to the Raider.
Like most American carmakers, Plymouth also built trucks in the 1930s. But unlike Dodge, another Mopar brand, it stopped offering haulers in 1941, when the PT125 was discontinued. Plymouth eventually ventured into the truck market again from 1979, but that only lasted until 1983. And you might not know it, but the company also offered an SUV around that time: it's called the Trail Duster.
autoevolution 17 Jan 2021, 10:56 UTC · by With SUVs and crossovers continuing to climb the sales ladder, what do you do when you wish to be surrounded by something special while enjoying that elevated driving position? Well, why not commission a build like the one we have here, which is as idiosyncratic as a daily driver can get? This is a 1979 Plymouth Trail Duster that has been restomodded to hell/heaven and back. 6 photos As old-school aficionados would tell you, the Trail Duster, which was built between 1974 and 1980, was Plymouth's version of the Dodge Ramcharger. And the example ...