Don Knotts, Dodge Trucks, and .....

[T-Mo-(Moderator) 4,496]

 

[oliver2-44 9,725]

He never would have went off the cliff if he had been riding a TOUGH Wheel Horse!

[midpack 862]

Is that a commercial???

WTH?

[c-series don 8,677]

I actually met Don Knotts on more than one occasion back in the mid eighties. My friends dad was the caretaker and pilot for the owner of a small private island nearby here. The owner of the island was friends with Don and he was there on several occasions when I was there with the caretakers sons. As I remember he was a very nice guy. The funny thing was that where I grew up it actually was a bit like Mayberry and a touch of the movie On Golden Pond!! Although I wasn’t old enough to drive a car, (there was a one lane bridge to access it) I could go to this little island by taking my 15’ boat there. I miss those days….. 

[EB-80/8inPA 1,640]

Well, it’s not every day one sees anything quite like that.

[Beap52 809]

What caught my attention was the diesel was smokeless.  If I remember, the diesels back in those days usually had the side of the trailers blackened behind the exhaust. 

 

I was at a circle track race several years ago.  I fellow, who looked rather out of place in his nice shirt and slacks, sat nearby.  We talked some and he had done some acting with Don Knotts.  He said Don was a nice guy, somewhat of a ladies man and actually rather shy.  

[953 nut 55,155]

I bought a used 1965 D-100 Dodge in 1976 while I was building my house. The odometer showed about 20K so I figured it was probably 120K. the slant six ran great and would haul quite a load. One day a fellow was looking at the truck in a parking lot when I came out of the store. Turns out he had driven the truck for a previous owner and told me it had over 400K on it. In 1987 I traded it in on a new Dakota, by then it had a bit over 500K on it, never had a bit of trouble with it.

[rmaynard 15,434]

I had a customer when I was in the home improvement business who owned a 1965 Dodge Pickup which was his daily driver. He said that he would only part with it if he died. When he did die in 2020, the truck had well over 1,000,000 miles on it. He kept track of the mileage by scratching a line on the dash each time the 5 digit odometer would hit 99,999 and flip to all zeros. He also marked it down in the owners manual. Prior to his death, he had at least 10 offers from Dodge truck enthusiasts to purchase it. When he died, his widow gave it to a local Dodge dealer.