Accidentally Restoring a Dodge Bighorn - Bill Arthur's Bighorn Truck Tour

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[@Curt-ge9gc]

Nice Restoration of your Bighorn. My Dad bought 2 new Bighorns in 1975, and when he did that. He also got 2 Dodge D100 pickups as part of a Promotion back then. I still own one of the Bighorns and the D100 my Dad gave me for my Birthday that year.

[@SnickersG-fu2pw]

Thats a very cool DODGE big rig. Till this date these old school classic rigs are unique to look at on their designs back then. Very nice and one of a kind! 👍🏼

[@manoelgid4283]

Muito bonito esse Dodge bighorn, pena que no Brasil não tivemos esse modelo. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@Userqwerty349]

Happy it's restored to original. Dayton wheels, Hendrickson suspension, and no 10 foot frame stretch or 8 inch stacks.

[@damienodonohue1327]

Bloody oath mate, no Bloody drop visor, no Bloody deep bumper, just good old fashioned reality!!

[@patrickmcgoldrick8234]

Chrysler did a nice job taking a cab design from the the fifties,and making the long nose front end and blending the two together,it works,and looks nice.

[@davesimpson8437]

Thank you Red for another great interview. I enjoyed the story and walk around.

[@bush600r2]

Thanks for taking your time with the Camara work through the interior, very interesting to see what its like inside as well as out. Nice restore, very cool unique truck👍

[@williamgray5882]

Great looking Dodge and love the paint and my name is Bill so I got a kick out of seeing Bill great rig !!!

[@kelvintorrence5994]

love the color sweet ride

[@stansdds]

That's quite the restoration.

[@glamcityrockerofficial]

What an impressive piece of machinery

[@dennisternent2974]

Great looking truck Bill

[@shellyweiers121]

Awesome restoring job bill the big horns were awesome and underrated in there time

[@user-kg4eb7nl5b]

Bighorn is a seriously cool old rig ... glad you saved this one .. havent seen one in decades

[@MissFlatbedRed]

I see probably a dozen a year at shows!

[@Phantom-309-e9p]

I have always considered myself a Dodge man and knew of the Dodge 900s with the swing out fenders but never knew of the Bighorns until tripping across a KZbin video several years ago. I could totally see me shoe-horning a B model Cat under the hood and a Double Eagle sleeper on the back and wonder tripping around the country in one.

[@markclark96]

Very nice Dodge. ❤

[@user-mr3ct1dm9p]

Yes--- DODGE---- not Ram!!!!

Very nice

[@billferris5292]

Can't wait!

[@philipwilliams6270]

Love that dodge 😊bag ram 🐏

[@thor8640]

Very nice, definitely not many of the Big Horns left. To funny that the Chrysler star in the center of the steering wheel is about to come back.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Actually as few as were initially built, quite a lot are around.

[@user-mr3ct1dm9p]

That's the Dodge logo.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

This has nothing to do with a Bighorn pickup.

[@damienodonohue1327]

Beautiful jigger, Excellent engine 👌👍

[@user-fp1oc4dn2g]

I love this truck nice ride 👍

[@glamcityrockerofficial]

I really like the color

[@Jameswormsley319]

👍👍

[@glamcityrockerofficial]

I noticed he said in the video that it just sits around in the shop because they don't use it that much anymore but I wonder if anyone who has trucks like this just enjoy taking out for a spin sometimes I don't know if you could answer that question Ms flatbed red I would imagine that like if I had a cool truck like that pink and white one I'd want to just take it out for a cruise even if I wasn't using it for work just for fun

[@MissFlatbedRed]

He did say they use it occasionally. Sometimes they are protest being taken out. I tried to take my truck to 4 shows but it had other ideas. They do have to be driven to stay in working order, and see what needs fixed, just isn’t always that straightforward.

[@user-bu8bc6kg4f]

There were many Dodge, Chevrolet, GMC, Ford tractors in WNC Apple farming community in the 70s they didn't travel long distance and worked mostly late summer -fall. I'm guessing they were more affordable? Nobody owned a Peterbilt or KW. My family had a coe Dodge with a Detroit or smaller gasoline Dodge trucks.

[@RobertBOUSKILL]

I think your truck is amazing. I live in Hamilton and during the seventies I was an apprentice. I worked at White trucks, (now a Uhaul dealer in Hamilton) and also at Paling and Wheels brakes and Equipment. I eventually became a salesman there selling Garwood packers and Vac-All equipment. While at Paling one of our customers had a Sicard truck, which is almost exactly like your truck. His had a Cummins in it. I don't remember his name but it was a wine and red striped unit with a box on it. I remember his did not have flush headlights like yours, more like a depressed box on an R model mack. Eventually I had a "U" model Mack which I installed a bunk and took it to Chicago and New York in the eighties. Eventually in wrote a book about mechanics kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqS3o5R8ot-Ge9E. With no degree I could not sell the ideas to car companies even though many years I hauled car parts to all the automotive firms at Central Transport.

[@matthewkabanuk443]

Oh man a Bighorn with an 8V-71T is rather rare, most were Cummins Small Cams.

[@rubyredlopez4]

Where is the mini flat bed peter build?

[@rudycarlson8245]

Did he say it has a 8v71?