Do you have a rear wheel drive Dodge Dakota and you yearn for the go-anywhere properties of four wheel drive? If so, all you need to do is fine a donor 4WD Dakota that is a similar to yours in the chassis length and you can literally swap the body from your truck onto the […] More »

V8 powered trucks like the Dodge Dakota generally demand a higher price than V6 models but with an abundance of V8 engines in salvage yards around the country – swapping the stock V6 for a more powerful V8 is a great solution for those V6 Dakota owners looking for a project.  DF member varsis went […] More »

We feature a great many 1st generation Dodge Dakota pickups here on DodgeForum but few are quite like this one.  Owner and DF member SlightlyDodgy calls this his 1989ish Dakota due to the massive amount of work that has been done front to back and the result is a Dakota that is very likely the […] More »

There are oddly no tow hook package specifically designed for the 1st generation Dodge Dakota so those owners who want to have a set of hooks to pull out stuck Chevys and Fords will have to rely on some American ingenuity with the use of some non-Dakota specific components.  DF’s resident Dakota guru and moderator […] More »

In the world of doing big, smokey burnouts, few can draw more attention than doing one in non-moving traffic like the Dodge Dakota in this week’s Tire Shredding Tuesday video.  I should stress that this is likely the most dangerous way to do a burnout since there are so many stationary vehicles sitting around this […] More »

It seems that far too often, Dodge fans forget that the company made a Dakota Convertible in the late 1980s and early 1990s so this week’s featured photo is the 1990 Dodge Dakota Sport Convertible owned by DodgeForum member 90dakotaconvertible.  A great many truck owners have turned to skilled body shops to create drop top […] More »

Ahh the simple fun of a Tuff Truck race.  Take a near stock, street driven Dodge Dakota and attack a motocross track with enough speed to get the truck off of the ground over and over.  Needless to say, Tuff Truck races can be hard on the truck and that fact is clearly displayed by […] More »