Dodge Trucks in the movies and TVs

[soopernaut]

Again, the A-Team...A brown and white 68 was used in a roadblock and got hit by a semi.

It Takes a Thief- The main character was driving a 61 for a while.

Emergency- Normally the main characters drive a 72 D300 but for one scene it showed a 70-71 D300. Sometimes it shows out their front windshield and the hood is that of a 61-68 truck.

[sweptliner]

Last night I was watching Fireball 500 and during one of the opening race scenes, as one of the cars goes around a turn the camera sweeps over the infield and I spotted a '66 100 or 200 with a camper in the bed, maybe it's a camper special. either way I thought it was cool. There was also a black D100 that looked like a '70 but it was too blurry to be sure of.

[jeffz]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Priceline commercial with Shatner in the back of an A100 van that comes around a corner sideways with tires smoking to "kidnap" a customer. It was cool inside, too.

[OldD200]

You guys have just got to see this video from the making of King Solomon’s Mines. I had to go sit in the cab of my nu-completed 68 W200 after I checked it out!

Not Swepts, but pure Dodge nun the less.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=60965

Enjoy,

Scott

[OregonDodgeboy]

Scott,

That video was over-the-top cool! I loved watching them climbing over the lava bed. Funny how they emphasized the use of the 4wd, yet the 2wds walked right through, and in fact lead the pack. Also funny how they refrigerated truck was for use of "important items" (I think that was the term they used) like film, water,.. and Coca Cola.

I found a cabover just like the one they show, only a few hours from me. I plan on stopping to see if it's for sale when I go by it next week while on "vacation". (It's in the back of a rural truck sales lot, so I'm hopeful) Love to make that into Dad's RV hauler.

[OldD200]

I think they were all 4x4 with the exception of the COE “Coke” truck. I love the lava bed scene too; especially the sound of those gear drive transfer cases!

A COE like that would be so cool. After seeing the film I’d have to paint it forest green!

Take care,

Scott

[jeffz]

You guys have just got to see this video from the making of King Solomon’s Mines. I had to go sit in the cab of my nu-completed 68 W200 after I checked it out!

Not Swepts, but pure Dodge nun the less.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=60965

Enjoy,

Scott

Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed it.

[soopernaut]

A movie called Peacemaker has a pieplate milk truck used in a short scene. It is stolen and used to run over a guy. Neither the truck or the guy were hurt. The guy was actually an alien with the ability to regenerate.

[DocsTruck]

I was watching the Weather Channel this morning and they were talking to a man about the possibility of mudslides at Little Tujunga Canyon in California and in one shot there was a big ol flat bed Pie Plate. It was a dark color, maybe brown or dark maroon. It is funny how these trucks catch the eye.

[Kaegi]

I think they were all 4x4 with the exception of the COE “Coke” truck. I love the lava bed scene too; especially the sound of those gear drive transfer cases!

A COE like that would be so cool. After seeing the film I’d have to paint it forest green!

Take care,

Scott

Only the Power Wagons in that film have 4 wheel drive. that is why the scout car gets stuck in the river right away! lol it shows you that you can go quite a ways with a 2 wheel drive truck with low gears and fully loaded ;/) But it still takes Power Wagon to save the day and drag all the others whre they need to go.

[OldD200]

Kaegi,

You're right, the other trucks are not 4x4. I stand corrected!

Isn't that a neat clip?

Take care,

Scott

[Kaegi]

It is indeed and excellent film. I like how they said therepair bill after 7 months in that environment was less than 300 bucks! even back then that was a low number for the kind of abuse those rigs were going thru.

[Buck]

Watchin DVDs at home last few days, saw a few sweptys in Speedway staring Elvis and Nancy Sinatra, then watched Duel and the school bus Dennis Weaver tries to push start with his Valiant is a 4 eye. Then watching a documentary on F105's in Nam', and theres lots of airforce sweptlines, with the roofs painted white (cos of the heat I guess). As they are filming a drive by of a line of Thuds, you can see the 3 hole mirror stalk with the mirror removed of the camera truck.

[64TRUK]

Don't know if its already been posted but last night I caught eye of a swepty flatbed on a 80's movie called "Vision Quest". Its about a High school wrestler going for the prize, there is a point where he takes a trip to see his Grandpa and he makes the voyage in a beat up ole 4 eyed flatbed DODGE.

[68Dodge1]

There is some swepty flatbeds in the movie "Valkyrie" with tom cruise.don't know what year but nice looking trucks

[Allan66]

There is a potato commercial i have seen a 68 in the background. its red, regualr cab, regular box

Looks like a really nice truck!

[OleRed66]

Saw an ad last night for one of those sugar substitutes. A guy was sitting on the tailgate of a truck and from the taillight it was obviously a sweptline

[Buck]

There is some swepty flatbeds in the movie "Valkyrie" with tom cruise.don't know what year but nice looking trucks

I sat through that movie, and danged if I could see any, the whole thing's set in WW2 Germany.

[soopernaut]

The movie Breaking In has a medium duty 68 with a stake bed that also dumps.

[sweptaway]

in the first vanishing point when he picks up the challenger and is driving through town he passed by the dodge dealership at the end of the lot their are a couple brand new sweptlines