"There is uncertainty as to why the Airflow truck was created, and who conceived it. Perhaps the most credible report is from Chrysler Motors Magazine for September 1937. It said the idea was born of the excitement generated by the introduction of the 1934 Airflow passenger cars. Regardless of who started it, the first Airflow tanker emerged from the Dodge truck plant in the Detroit area in December of 1934. Most Airflow trucks were fuel tankers, but beer and ice cream trucks are also known, and possibly other types were built. "

For all the attention Dodge's Airflow trucks of the mid- to late 1940s receive - mostly from petroliana and Texaco enthusiasts - there wasn't an overabundance of facts available on them when Don Butler put together an article on the Dodge Airflows back in April 1988. Overall production was at best a guess based on serial numbers, and the true reason for the development of the custom-built trucks remained a mystery. Based on a quick look through the Hemmings library, it appears nobody has been able to add to Butler's account of the trucks since then. Can you?

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