JON, HI! The next time you got your Dak at Cayuga let's see it go.
I'm a little confused about your statement about 94 to 95 badging being
different. Are you refering to the V8 Magnum badges. If so I have owned
both a 95 and my 94. Sorry - no difference. I have check actual photos
of both and brouchures. ??? D
Jon Steiger wrote:
>
> At 10:34 PM 5/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Good point Mike.....
> >
> >With all this year model talk going on I've been thinking (well,
> >actually it's an idea I've had for quite some time). Who would be
> >interested in helping me create a year model identification FAQ for
> >Dakotas? There are plenty of visual clues on the gen II's that will
> >tell you about what year they are like; third tail light ('94 and up)
> >Magnum engine badges ('92 and up, but the badge design changed in '95
> >too), other things like wheel designs, paint schemes and stuff like
> >this. We could even go into engine component changes like how they
> >moved the cruise control module in '93 back towards the firewall
> >instead of up next to the battery, the deletion of the EGR valve in
> >'96, the smaller Y pipe after '93...... the list goes on and on. I
> >think with all the knowledge of the list members combined I could
> >compile a pretty thorough FAQ on identifying the year model.
>
> I think this is an excellent idea, Mike. I would certainly be willing
> to help out however I can. Regarding the differences, I think it would be
> cool to have pictures of the differences too. (Being worth a thousand
> years and all.) :-) What about including the Gen I's too? Obviously
> those are easy to distinguish via the front clip, but it might not be a bad
> idea to put that in there too. I like the idea of going over the
> mechanical differences too. (Another example; 9.75" rear available now...)
>
> Another idea; what about something to show someone how to tell a Gen III
> Dak from a '93+ Ram? No, that's not a shot at the Gen III's... When they
> first came out, I had some trouble telling them apart. Especially so for
> the 4x4 Gen IIIs as they are a bit taller. Now, I can easily tell them
> apart, but it wasn't so easy at first, unless of course they're parked
> right beside each other. A buddy of mine is getting a QC Dak, and his Mom
> is always asking him "is that a Dakota?" while pointing at a Ram. :-)
>
> Anyway, I'd be glad to help however I can, and I would certainly be
> willing to give it a home on the DML home page. I don't want to step on
> any toes here, but maybe call it something like "The Dakota Timeline"? I'm
> picturing a different page for each year, and a frame for the person to
> click on the years (doesn't have to be a frame though), and each year would
> list the differences from the previous year. 1987-2000, and tack on a new
> one each year. This is also something that will probably grow larger and
> larger as the details get even more nit-picked. :-) Its also something
> which would be easy to get started, with a basic skeleton, then fill it in
> with data here and there...
>
> This could be really cool! :-)
>
> >This
> >could be a subsection of the Dakota FAQ -- BTW, what ever happened to
> >the Dakota FAQ??
>
> AFAIK, its dead; never got off the ground. That's another thing which
> would be nice to have. :-)
>
> -Jon-
>
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