# 50s-60s crew-cab pickups **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 23, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129 "2005-05-23T18:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/1 "2005-05-23T18:24:46Z")
Remembering a program on the Discovery Channel or History, the showed an excerpt on SAC…the Strategic Air Command…and how pilots areon a constant state of alert: guys sitting around, playing cards, and the alarm goes off and they all run out to their military issue utility trucks to high-tail it to the airstrip. I noticed that the pickups were crew cabs…that is, full sized rear doors behind the drivers’ and passenger’s side doors. I thought the crew-cab concept was a 90’s invention…can someone link to a manufacturer’s options list of that era? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/2 "2005-05-23T18:39:09Z")
I can’t speak for other makes but Ford introduced its first crew cab in 1969. [http://www.ford-trucks.com/pictorial/big2/1969\_f250\_a1.html](http://www.ford-trucks.com/pictorial/big2/1969_f250_a1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/3 "2005-05-23T18:47:44Z")
I’m pretty sure I seen four door Dodge trucks in the same body style as the '64 I owned. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/4 "2005-05-23T18:54:20Z")
My uncle Walt had a '65 Dodge Crew Cab Power Wagon. Great truck. My father bought one in the 70’s. I used it all through high school. Those back seats are HUGE! ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/5 "2005-05-23T19:01:20Z")
1967 [here](http://imageevent.com/colwell/1967w200dodge4x4powerwagoncrewcab), and [here](http://www.vintagemilitarytrucks.com/67%20Crew%20Cab%20Dodge%20Power%20Wagon.htm). 1953 [here](http://www.dodgepowerwagon.com/classifieds/matt53cc.html), 1969 [here](http://www.dodgepowerwagon.com/classifieds/kish69d200.html), 1964 [here](http://www.dodgepowerwagon.com/classifieds/arnold64pw300.html). Whew! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/6 "2005-05-23T19:03:40Z")
Even [Volkswagen](http://www.dolphinsci.com/crewcab.html) got in on the crew cab craze. ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60s-crew-cab-pickups/305129/7 "2005-05-24T15:37:21Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > I thought the crew-cab concept was a 90’s invention…can someone link to a manufacturer’s options list of that era? I too was surprised to ‘notice’ crew cabs in older model years on the road. I guess it is like buying a new car then noticing that there are tons of them on the road. -rainy