Functionality is a big part of my automotive tastes. Stuff doesn’t need to be practical, but it needs to function in the manner that you’d expect in my world. My old wrecker runs and drives and still has the suds to rip trees from the ground, lift Chevys at the drop of a hat, etc. My old Goliath truck had 6,000lbs of fertilizer stacked in the bed one time just to see what would happen. Those trucks weren’t (and aren’t) “practical” but the tow truck tows and the big converted flatbed could handle a load. The enormous 1967 Dodge Sweptline truck is challenging that ethos for me. On the one hand the body is flawless. The paint is perfection, interior is great, the cool factory tailgate is pristine. On the other hand, the stock frame still present and looking puny as all get out with the huge tires and several feet of lift. You couldn’t ‘wheel this truck for fear of wrecking the body, bending that stock frame like spaghetti, or laying it on its side.

The welding and fabrication work on the suspension system looks very nicely done and to our eye, the driveshaft angles, while crazy for a car are not all that bad for a truck this tall, so you probably won’t be eating up universal joint every few hundred miles. The Mopar 400ci big block engine is a good choice for keeping it “all in the family” so to speak and the Dana 60 front and 70 rear axles have never looked so tiny when laying between those huge 53″ tires. A Torqueflite does the shifting and a tough NP 205 transfer case handles the splitting of the 4×4 duties, which I’m guessing isn’t often.

After staring at it for hours between last night and today, I’d be OK with breaking my functionality rule for this one. It is such a show stopping truck  that pushes all of those internal child buttons that still get me hung up on huge trucks. Yes, I’d never slog it though a mud pit climb it up a bunch of rocks, or jump it into the wild blue yonder, but I’d love to cruise it! Manhandling those huge tires around muse be a real pain in the backside, though…and I’d need to find a place to park it with a garage door over 10’ high. Then again, those are the good type of problems to have. That and occasionally having to pluck a Miata out from under that front Dana 60.

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eBay link: 1967 Dodge Sweptline monster show truck