It’s true: For a brief time, the Plymouth product line included pickup trucks. Here’s a quick rundown.

It’s not difficult at all to guess why Plymouth jumped into the pickup truck business in 1937. Plymouth was by far the Chrysler Corporation’s most powerful and popular brand, with more than 550,000 vehicles produced that year—more than the rest of the Chrysler domestic brands (Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler) put together. For Walter P. Chrysler and his talented management team, the Plymouth name and its potent dealer network represented too great an opportunity to pass up. A car-based sedan delivery body style was introduced in 1935, followed by a proper, conventional pickup truck for the ’37 model year.

And it was easy enough to do, too. All Chrysler products of this period freely shared their components, both major and minor. So naturally, the ’37 Plymouth PT50 (above)  was, just as you would expect, a close sibling to that year’s Dodge MC truck, with the addition of some Plymouth parts and emblems. (PT stood for Plymouth Truck.)

Chrysler continued its Plymouth truck line through 1941 (’41 PT125 shown above). A panel delivery and chassis cab were also offered, as depicted in the 1940 flyer below. (Note how the pickup and panel use different front-end sheet metal.) When civilian auto production resumed at the end of World War II, the Plymouth trucks did not return. However, in later years Plymouth did offer various badge-engineered truck models now and then, including the 1983 Scamp (read about the fwd compact Scamp here) and the Mitsubishi-built 1979-82 Arrow pickup, before the Plymouth brand was discontinued for good in 2001.