Dodge Ram QuadCab/Hemi, 4X4

From : bandit798

Q: on tue 05 apr 2005 235632 gmt yousuckimok bendover@vaseline.net wrote 1953 dodge info tag states type bd4 translates to 1-ton vehicle 1953 veh#/chassis 81469947 translates to being a 1953 b-d-4 built in detroit b-4-d-126 translates to 126 inch wheelbase model dws109 here i am lost - never saw that model code before pictures are here - http//www.inet-lender.com/1953dodge/ just to be sure - check the wheelbase. im sure it is longer than 126 that babys been modified. like an early fifties mercedes and possibly custom bodied at that grafted to a lengthened dodge chassis - possibly a forward control commercial chassis lime the early travco. ive found another picture of a similar van - supposedly a grumman different grille. see it at http//www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pixcma/04099.jpg and http//www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pixcma/04100.jpg then again about 2/3 of the way down the page at http//www.oldtrucks.com/bigrigs/46-50.shtml is a ford bread truck that looks amazingly similar. so far i purchased the dunn books no mention or pictures of this type and the 1953 dodge trucks shop manual no reference to this type pretty please .

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From : gene via carkb com

miles wrote tbone wrote and where is the infrastructure for the pure hydrogen that they need. the answer is that it simply doesnt exist. thats where the future is. didnt you tell me we need to be looking towards the future now you have a problem with an american company that is spending over a billion $s towards technology to do just that. go figure. its my understanding that the first fuel cell cars will probably get their h2 from...gasoline! yep. the problem is that they will get no better mileage than a conventional vehicle although they will do it with far less polution. makes sense. the infrastructure is already there so might as well make use of it. it will help to perfect the fuel cell technology and how it applies to vehicles but does little for the problems we have today. still some serious problems with fuel cell technology for automotive purposes though. the volume problem seems fairly serious. how do you pack enough h2 in the car to get a reasonable distance how do you store the h2 safely where do you get the h2 from its energy intensive to produce they will probably have to liquefy the hydrogen which would require people that actually know what they are doing to fill up the vehicles and that will increase the cost to the consumer. but i think this technology is going to fly! maybe 10 years and not just in cars. instead of those aa batteries powering all your electronics youll have a refillable miniature fuel cell that will do the job. i agree but that does little for us now. in the meantime perhaps the prospect of $3/gal gasoline will get america more serious about alternative energy. its only been 30 years since the first wake up call gas crisis! and yet how quickly it was forgotten. the difference here is that this is not a short term glitch like the gas crisis of the 70s was and it will only get worse from here. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .