Sports cars are dumb. They fit two people and barely hold a suitcase! Now a sports truck on the other hand, well now we’re talking. This 1989 Dodge Dakota Sport convertible, one of about 4,000 examples built at the direction of Dodge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, offers more room and more opportunity! Have a third wheel? It’s got a bench seat! Need to pick up a load of gravel on the way home from your beach vacation? It’s got a six foot bed! This particular example has certainly put in some work, racking up some 255,000 miles on the clock, but it presents well and the seller (me) claims the previous seller said (I don’t have paperwork) it has a new engine and rebuilt transmission. More photos can be seen where it is listed on Facebook marketplace in Bellingham, WA and could be yours for $5,500 obo.
I bought this truck a couple years ago with plans to build it into a rad beach cruiser. Alas, I didn’t, because, you know, life, money, dogs, things like that. So maybe you have more or less of those things and want to do what I could not. I haven’t altered this truck in any way since purchasing it, but I have definitely put some miles on it. It’s by no means perfect, but I can attest, it runs and drives quite well. The AC and cruise control even work!
Dodge Convertible Truck for Sale
We are getting into the era of 1980s stuff being cool (again?). RADwood is a great example of that, and this is a great example to take to RADwood. Dodge launched the Dakota convertible in 1989 at a time when people up and down the California coast chopped the roofs off of all sorts of trucks. Broncos, Jeeps and Blazers and their removable tops also ran rampant in beach towns across the states. So Dodge answered a call nobody really made. If they did, it was probably a prank call.
So here we have a standard issue Dakota Sport with its roof cut off. Each, like this Dodge Dakota convertible for sale, is equipped with a 125 horsepower, 3.9 liter V6. This one is connected to an automatic transmission. It’s optioned with air conditioning, which blows cold! Since rolling off the dealership lot it has since been equipped with a Bluetooth CD player, Kenwood speaker, and remote locking and starting capabilities (totally tubular!). Pop in some AC/DC, or sync up your phone, and let the tunes blare for the whole world to hear (it sounds pretty good honestly). This is a relatively modern classic car for sale and you probably won’t see another at your local cars and coffee or other car show.
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While it runs and drive nice, there are issues of note. Here’s what I inherited (as I haven’t touched anything): a bouncing tach, a nonfunctional parking break, broken power window and lock switches in the passenger door and the top, normally supported in the down position by cables, now rests on the (pretty sweet) tonneau cover.
The top is newish and doesn’t leak, the body is relatively straight, but the paint is blah, primarily on the hood. I kind of like how it looks. Used, raw, ready for action. A previous owner powder coated the wheels and wrapped them in new tires. It rides quite pretty, drives straight and doesn’t leak. It is rough around the edges but worthy of an owner that can give it some love or at least drive it more than I (all funds will be going toward my Karmann Ghia restoration!). It’s dope truck for $5,500 OR BEST OFFER! Interested? Email me at brian(at)carsandcopymedia(dot) com. CLICK HERE for the Facebook listing.
