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To many car enthusiasts a "Ford " is a "Ford" and a "Dodge" is a "Dodge" and certainly a "Chrysler" can only be that brand of vehicle and product. Simple as that. Yet it amazes many and many vintage automotive and truck SUV enthusiasts to discover that the first Model T Ford motor products were built not by Ford , but by the "Dodge Brothers' whose company and automotive firm became the basis of the Chrysler auto and truck industrial empire. The Ford classic Model T was an instant hit , durable on early American roads and affordable to even Henry Ford's own workers. So the brothers decided to take what they had learned and build things bigger and better. They of course became so popular that people started begging them for light trucks but they kept refusing because they couldn't keep up with the high demands. For support of the "fighting men" over there in far off Europe in World War 1 , Dodge - the Dodge Brothers - were asked by the American military procurement board to provide many thousands of truck chassis, half ton trucks and what became the prototypical ambulance models. From that point everything kept evolving for the brothers; they turned the ambulance into a car by changing the design and everything they had made for the government was quickly redesigned for the market into something else such as cars and trucks. A joint venture emerged between Dodge who would build and manufacture the auto parts and the Graham family enterprise to assemble the vehicles in their garage assembly factories. The first truck was a 1 and a ton pick-up truck and sold for approximately $1345. 00. Wow! It is always grand to look back and reminisce! Obviously the history of Dodge has greatly evolved into what we have today. No two cars that roll off an automotive assembly plant to the dealer sale floor are alike. Each seems to be unique - as it assembled for each individual driver and motoring family. The price tag is affordable but nothing like it was back in the early 1900s. Everyone has their preference on what they like better rather it is a Dodge or Ford but remember the first car was both; Dodge parts and a Ford name.
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Terry S. Vostor Edmonton Alberta Auto Traders Fort McMurray Northern AB Canada Auto Financing Used Dodge Ford Trucks Fort Mc Murray
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