Since shortly after the beginning of the modern automobile, the United States appeared in the first transformations on series cars replaced the rear by a loading dock. This will solved the logistical problems of many Americans, they found appropriate vehicles for commercial and individual transportation. They were the pick-up.
With the replacement of the rear cars of a platform series began the path of a segment that has come to be the favorite vehicle of all Americans, not just them, because, jumping borders, has gained support worldwide.
The first pick-up were changes made on the basis of the Ford T and A, which was replaced by a rear loading dock. This simple invention allowed many peasants have not only a vehicle also could carry a fast and convenient goods for your business or farm.
Brothers John and Horace Dodge, responsible for the mechanics of the first 500 000 T Ford, built his first truck during the Great War, at the request of the United States government, as his misgivings were known to produce such vehicles. In 1918 this truck set up to serve on the front as an ambulance, was conveniently converted and renamed the Dodge Brothers half ton Screenside Car Commercial, a 35 hp four-cylinder.
That same year, Chevrolet launched its pick-up 490 Light Delivery, based on the car 490. This is a four-cylinder 21.7 hp, had special about being in direct competition T. Ford Paradoxically, it was not until 1925 when the manufacturer began selling its Ford T Runabout, the first mass-produced for own signature.
The escalation of powers was a matter of time. In 1929, Chevrolet took the first jump with an inline six-cylinder 65 hp, Ford’s answer came in 1932 with a V8 of similar facilities, and one years later, in 1933, Dodge motorized its range with a six-cylinder.
During these early years, these pick-ups showed up all its versatility of use and eventually win an audience and did not understand the history of the automobile without them. In the fifties, every American vehicle that preciarÃa should look under his hood around a V8, a tendency to impose ending Ford F-Series, in 1948, with the F-150 Regular Cab.
For its part, in 1950, Chevrolet released the model 3800, a 90-hp six-cylinder that the change was timed to avoid the user having to do double clutch maneuver. The postwar era was marked by the evolution of design to improve the standard of habitability and comfort, at the request of the users, thus, in 1954, Chevrolet put on the market on 3800, 112 hp and automatic Hydramatic as option. During this decade, Dodge produced the Series B and C, very comfortable and easy to drive. In 1948, Series B, 500 and 750 kilos, riding a six-cylinder 95 hp to 102 hp power up the model in the case of one ton of cargo.
In 1954 came the Series C, the first pick-up V8 Dodge, that starting from the base model 145 hp, achieved in its dual carburetor body, the 172 hp.
At the end of the decade, Japan was preparing a revolution. Datsun (Nissan) launched its pick-up. Unlike the colossal monuments of American V8, the Datsun was a modest four-cylinder 1000 cc and 37 hp. Its success was on at first, but soon enjoyed greater popularity, when his engine was replaced by a 60 HP DC 1200. His final consecration came in 1965 with the Datsun 520, import sales record. By then, another Japanese manufacturer, Mazda, had for two years from its Series B in the market, pick-up a Japanese-style economic and compact.
European industry is alien to this phenomenon, but was unsuccessful in his homeland, some models such as the Peugeot 404 Pick-Up were produced almost entirely to ex-colonial markets, like Africa. In other cases, such as Land Rover’s versatile, merely to cover the cabin with an aluminum roof.
Gradually more manufacturers added a pick-up model, diesel or gasoline, to its range, this was the case of Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota or Isuzu in the east, and GMC and the three American classics. At present vehicles that offer comfort and livability without reproach, with his proverbial load capacity, expanding the field a little more, opening new avenues of development models and prototypes as surprising as the Terradyne GMC, Dodge MAXXCab, Volkswagen ACC (Amarok), the Chevrolet SSR sport (with little success), or the huge Dodge Power Wagon. Now the trend continues and the binding and fusion of segments created new styles of pick-ups in the future.
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