1934 Dodge KC at the Auburn Hills MI Museum ?

On one of the Dodge tour activities was a trip to the Chrysler Museum. Was really excited to go and see the 34 Dodge p/u that was sold and restored by Dodge City Vintage in the late 90s. I watch this truck being built from ground zero as I would be in his shop delivering or picking up freight. I was disappointed only to see a 34 red KC. I ask one of the workers about the truck with no avail. He said that there is 250 cars that is on rotation. 70? cars and trucks are on display at any given time. After viewing the videos and pictures that I took of the truck with DCV, we came to the conclusion that it is the same truck painted red. My question would be, why would they paint this truck red (not a option color in 34)? Any thoughts?:confused:

Pictured above is the truck being built.

Pictured above is pictures that I took and pictures that I found on the internet.

​Hi Dave , nice looking truck thanks for adding the photos, did you by any chance get 1 of the dash board?

Wasn't to much interested in the truck at the time so I wasn't aggressive about picture taking. A emotional thing I guess. Never thought it would be the same truck that DCV had done. We couldn't go behind the ropes. Why would you ask about the dash? Just curious.

I know that the car dash boards were changed on a regular basis, just wondered if it was the same on the trucks.

33 car-33-34 truck the same

35-36 truck the same until a certain point in the late 35, they added a glove box.

34 car dash changed

35 car major change

Cars below- the nice blue dash is marked 34 DP-should be 34 DR

truck dash- 33-34 Truck dash the same

Thanks for putting those all in one place Dave, find the Chrysler range very interesting especially that it was the cheap end of the market. Was the fact that they survived the Wall St. crash made them more obtainable.

Keep in mind that towards the end of 34, there was a transition from the old, HC and early KC unitized instrument cluster (as in Dave's picture above of the HC) to the three round gauges that were seen in what are typically known as 35 'first series' trucks. What makes it confusing is that the trucks seemed to have basically flowed from one year to the next without the clear breaking points. If you look at the parts books closely you will see that even late 34s underwent a dash change, changing over to the 3-gauge type (which really still is a cluster, but it is mounted behind the dash, with just the gauge faces and the knobs sticking through). These 'late 34-first series 35s' also came both with and without a glovebox. See the attached photo of a KCL with a 3-gauge, glove box equipped dash. My 34 KCL panel has round gauges and no glovebox, so they came both ways.

Good to have you back Scott, great information as always.

I could do with a PM from you. Thanks