SoCalDesertRider
SanDiego, CA, USA
Senior Member
Joined: 12/14/2003
View Profile
|
I think Ram is now a separate subsidiary of Fiat-Chrysler? Ram used to be just a moniker under the Dodge brand name. My little '87 mini truck was called a 'Dodge Ram 50'. In previous years, it was named 'Dodge D-50', no Ram in the name. My old '78 Dodge was named 'Dodge D-150', no Ram in the name, though it did have the ram's head logo on the hood.
05E350 6.0PSD
97F350DRW 7.3PSD 4x4 4.10 11' flatbed
98Ranger
69Bronco ATC250R CR500
20' BigTex flatbed carhauler
Callen Camper
92F350 CrewCab 4x4 351/C6
B&W TurnoverBall, Curt Magnum V
HD Springs Bilsteins,
285/75-16E BFG AT on 16x8 Stocktons
4.56's & LockRite rear
|
tkcrawford
Edmonton, Alberta
Senior Member
Joined: 05/30/2009
View Profile
|
A trivia question -
Does anybody know the chronology of the name "Ram", where it came from and how it developed? I think I know but I'd like to see if anybody else has the same idea.
2004 Dodge Laramie 3500 Dually, CTD 305/555, Quad Cab, 4x4, NV5600
2008 Eagle Cap 995
|
RedRocket204
Colorado Front Range - Got Elk?
Senior Member
Joined: 05/22/2010
View Profile
|
tkcrawford wrote:A trivia question -
Does anybody know the chronology of the name "Ram"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Ram
Wikipedia wrote:The Dodge Ram (currently marketed as a separate brand from Dodge in the United States and Canada) is a full-size pickup truck manufactured by the Chrysler Group LLC. As of late 2010, it has been sold under the Ram Trucks brand. Previously, Ram was part of the Dodge lineup of light trucks. The name Ram was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Ram and Power Ram following the retiring and rebadging of the Dodge D Series pickup trucks as well as B-series vans. The truck is named for the Ram hood ornament that first appeared on Dodge vehicles in 1933.
I love me some land yachting
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
Perrysburg, Ohio USA
Senior Member
Joined: 12/06/2003
View Profile
|
I think the "Ram" first came about with the "Ramcharge" SUV/Station Wagon. Then was later added to the pick up line not sure the frist year that the name Ram started showing up on the pickup.
I had a 1974 Plymouth Trailduster?, 78,82? and a 85 Ramcharger. All used for snow plowing and all great trucks/SUV.
Don
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
2004 Dodge Ram 2500 Quad Cab SLT Cummins HO
2005 Keystone Cougar 304 BHS
Chrysler the only one to pay back 100% of their loans from the Government. *The Old Car Company" still owes 1.6 billion. Is that better Chuckles 
|
restlesswind
Fulltime
Senior Member
Joined: 10/13/2007
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
 Offline
|
I would like to get ahold of one of those Ram head hood ornaments and mount it on my "04 Ram.Probably,it would be illegal.
'04 33.5 CKQG Hitchhiker Discover America
04.5 Dodge 3500 CTD SRW
Pac Brake,Max Brake
Fulltimers since '06
|
|
|
colliehauler
Mc Pherson KS USA
Senior Member
Joined: 01/27/2004
View Profile
|
My 55 Dodge truck had a Red Ram motor 273? V-8 out of a Dodge car. The valve covers came half way around the spark plugs.
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
Perrysburg, Ohio USA
Senior Member
Joined: 12/06/2003
View Profile
|
Well I found a 1936 one ton Dodge pick up with a Rams head hood ornament on it! Well see what eles I can dig up.
|
tkcrawford
Edmonton, Alberta
Senior Member
Joined: 05/30/2009
View Profile
|
The original Dodge Ram logo came from sculptor Avard T. Fairbanks, who was working at the University of Michigan in 1929; he needed a new car to replace his Willys-Knight, and offered his services to Chrysler Corporation in exchange for designing a hood ornament. Dodge pickups have had a ram hood ornament off and on since that time.
From about 1960 until 1964, when the 426 Hemi came along, the word Ram became well known in association with Chrysler's Ram-Charger induction system with its wild intake manifold runners that took advantage of the pulses created in the runners to force more air into the cylindes. Sort of a poor man's supercharger.
The word is also associated with the highly successful factory sponsored drag racing team from the 60's called The Ramchargers and was used to name the Ramcharger SUV, built from 1974 to 1991.
So, it would seem that Dodge pickups have been closely associated with the word Ram almost since the beginning of Dodge.
And now we all have a bit more useless knowledge.
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
Perrysburg, Ohio USA
Senior Member
Joined: 12/06/2003
View Profile
|
Damn you beat me to it! Allpar has it (the info). I can't post the link right now.
From Allpar's web site; One evening I got an urgent call from the engineers at Dodge automobile company asking me to meet them in ten minutes. They explained that they had 10,000 cars that needed hood ornaments and that they wanted something as attractive as the ornament on a Rolls Royce, but for the cheapest car! I took along my clay and an animal book by my friend William Hornaday and spent the next several days at their headquarters. They brought in food and a couch and I went to work.
I suggested a mountain lion, a tiger, a jaguar and other animals. Finally I started modeling a mountain sheep. When the engineers read that the ram was the "master of the trail and not afraid of even the wildest of animals" they became enthusiastic about the symbol. Walter P. Chrysler wasn't as convinced. But I explained that anyone seeing a ram, with its big horns, would think "dodge." He looked at me, looked at the model, scratched his head and said, "That's what I want - go ahead with it."
The rest of the story
* This post was
last
edited 03/30/12 10:08am by Perrysburg Dodgeboy *
View edit history
|
SoCalDesertRider
SanDiego, CA, USA
Senior Member
Joined: 12/14/2003
View Profile
|
colliehauler wrote:My 55 Dodge truck had a Red Ram motor 273? V-8 out of a Dodge car. The valve covers came half way around the spark plugs. My ex's '68 Dodge Dart had a 273 V8 in it. Good little motor.
|
|
|
