How Much Do You Know About Pickup Trucks?

A pickup truck that has four rear wheels instead of the standard two is known as a "dually." The first dual-rear wheel pickup was the Chevy C/K 30 Big Doolie.

A pickup truck with a crew cab has four doors (and it can probably seat four to six people).

During World War II, the U.S. government halted the production of consumer pickup trucks by American automakers in order to repurpose their factories for the war effort.

Ford's F-Series pickup, the F-150, has been the best-selling truck in the U.S. for four decades.

The Camper Special of the 1972 Dodge D200 came with a slide-on camper body.

In the 1940s, Dodge began designing light-duty four-wheel drive pickups based on military four-wheel drive trucks. These were also the first trucks to roll off the line at the new Dodge truck plant in Detroit.

Beginning in 1949, Chevy's newly designed truck series included a gas tank inside the cab, secured behind the seat.

When T.A. Peterman, himself a logger, made the first Peterbilt trucks, the Model 260 and 334, they were intended for the logging industry on the West Coast.

Dodge's Screenside Commercial truck, which was built to carry as much as 1,000 pounds, was converted from the also Dodge-built World War I military ambulance.

In 1948 Ford introduced its Ford Bonus-Built, the first Ford in the still-manufactured F-Series lines of pickups and commercials trucks.

It was 1929 when the Dodge Brothers introduced the Merchants Express half-ton truck. But four years earlier, Ford Motor Company introduced its Model-T Runabout with Pickup Body, which became the Model-A pickup truck (complete with roll-up windows in the cab), in 1928. While it's not the first truck-like vehicle, the Model-A is considered the first American mass-produced pickup truck.

Willys had extensive experience designing and manufacturing military vehicles. Using that knowledge, Willys introduced its factory-built four-wheel drive pickup truck built on a light-duty chassis in 1947, the first that didn't need to be converted to four-wheel drive by a third-party.

The first hybrid truck was a Hino medium-duty model sold only in Japan in 1993. Another Hino light-duty hybrid truck became available in Australia in 2007. And while there were hybrid trucks available in the U.S. for commercial endeavors, both the first-gen Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Hybrid and the GMC Sierra Classic 15 Hybrid 4WD were sold to American drivers in 2007.

The International Harvester Travelette was a three-door crew cab pickup, and the first pickup with a crew cab available to American car buyers, in 1957. In 1961, it was redesigned from three to four doors and offered six-passenger seating.

Dodge Warlocks, Ford F-150 Tremors and other high-performance pickup trucks are called muscle trucks.

Chevy's OHV, the first introduced in the light-truck market, allowed its trucks to carry or pull heavier loads. They promoted with the slogan, A Six for the Price of Four.

The "glamour era" of pickup design for Chevy lasted between 1967 and 1972 and was the first time the style of the pickup was considered in addition to its utilitarian function.

The "hill-holder" helped drivers keep from rolling back when starting from a full-stop on a hill while driving a manual transmission vehicle. It was first introduced as an option for the sedan, the Studebaker President, in 1936. After that, it was available, along with wing windows and a transmission with overdrive, on Studebaker trucks, as well.

The modern-day Tacoma comes from the first successful Toyota truck in the U.S. market: the Hilux. Also known as the Pickup, it was introduced to American drivers in the late 1970s.

The Toyota Stout, a light truck produced from 1954 through 1989, was introduced to the American car buyer in 1964.

That word comes to us courtesy of Henry Ford, who called the first Ford truck the Model T Roadster with Pickup Body.

Just four Toyota Stout pickup trucks were sold the year it was introduced to the American market.

Between 1967 and early 1977, Ford made a truck, the F-250, that was nicknamed the "Highboy" because it sat a few inches higher than other models of Ford and other types of pickups on the road. When it was redesigned in 1977, the new F-250 sat a full four inches lower than the previous model, giving it the nickname, "Lowboy."

The Model 490 Light Delivery truck sold by Chevy in 1918 came with the truck's chassis, engine and transmission, plus fenders, foot pedals, a grill, headlights, shift level and a steering wheel. But it didn't come with a body.

When the Chevy small block 265 cubic-inch OHV V8 debuted, it was easily more powerful than Ford's Y-block V8.

When it was first introduced in 1968, the Toyota Hilux was rear-wheel drive. When it was redesigned for 1979, the Hilux was offered with a four-wheel drive option.

Of these Dodge truck marketing slogans and taglines used over the years, it was "Job Rated" that was used in 1939 to convince the consumer that Dodge trucks could get the job done.

The 1991 GMC Syclone pickup, which had the same 700R4 4-speed automatic transmission used in the C-4 Corvette, could go from 0-60 mph in an amazing 4.3 seconds.

The Toyota SR5 pickup truck, an early model of the Tacoma, is Marty McFly's dream truck in 1985's "Back to the Future."

In 1960 it was Chevy which re-engineered its pickup trucks with an independent front suspension, which means each wheel on the same axle can move vertically (up and down), independently of the others.

The U.S. government worked with Dodge Brothers when making their military vehicles during World War I.

The CJ-2A, introduced in 1945 to American drivers as farm equipment, also became the very first Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine.

The Chevy Model 490 had a 21.7-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and sold for $490. Owners of the Model 490 had to build their own cab, a truck bed and body onto the chassis (or buy an aftermarket cab).

Dodge was the second of the two automakers who built and used their own diesel engines for their diesel trucks.

The basic compact pickup truck is the most popular type of truck among American car buyers.