"Dustin Williams" <dustinewilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My favorite is the story behind the name of the Dakota. Dodge
>> > sponsered the PBR in either 86 or 87 and announced that the top bull
>> > in the season would get a pick up named after him. Dakota went though
>> > the entire season with out even the best of cowboys being able to ride
>> > him, and the name of our trucks was born.
>>
>>
>> Really? Where did you get that info? Not that I don't believe
>> you necessarily, :-) I'm just curious if it is firsthand info or
>> something that you had heard somewhere?
> I read it in the Readers Digest probably about 10 years ago as a young
> lad sitting on the crapper, but it was moving enough that it suck with
> me even though I didn't know that years later I would own one of my
> own.
> About that same time my aunt and uncle had a Dakota about like mine
> (gen 2, V-8, 4x4) and I always thought it was cool that a little truck
> like that could pull their fifth wheel up into the Cascades for the
> family reunion.
Cool, thanks, Dustin! A little bit of TMI there, perhaps ;-) but I
appreciate the info, it gives me something to go on anyway. I'm going
to try to dig into this a bit and see what I can find out. It would
make a cool trivia tidbit to add to the web site.
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