Have you ever heard of the Rusty Speedwerks team? They were looking at an old Fargo truck (official name: "2019 Amalgamated 1949 Fargo Replica") that was sold as a sub-brand by Chrysler in Canada in the 40s and 50s. And …
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Fargo was previously a vehicle brand from the manufacturer Chrysler. She built almost exclusively commercial vehicles and had to put up with having copied the design of the Dodge trucks of that time in order to save costs. The Fargo Trucks looked very much like the Dodgs. However, a Fargo truck had a completely different exterior and a different name. At the time, they were sold by Chrysler and Plymouth dealerships and the launch was in the late 1920s. In the beginning, the “Packet” passenger car was even a non-truck with a four-cylinder engine, and the larger clipper had a six-cylinder on board. Both vehicles were available as sedans and station wagons. In 1972 the name Fargo disappeared completely in Canada. In other countries around the world, Chrysler continued to use it in a badge engineering program. In modern times, the Fargo brand still existed in Turkey, where various Fargo and DeSoto trucks were manufactured by Askam until 2015.