---
title: "We Dairy You to Restore This Dodge Milk Bottle-Mobile to Its Former Glory"
description: "This bottle on wheels from the 1930s has seen better days."
date: "2021-06-04"
modified: "2021-06-04"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/40925/we-dairy-you-to-restore-this-dodge-milk-bottle-mobile-to-its-former-glory"
categories:
  - "Dodge News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "dodge"
---

# We Dairy You to Restore This Dodge Milk Bottle-Mobile to Its Former Glory

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Ready for some cheesy puns? No? Didn't know you lactose sense of humor. You'd butter not make a fuss, then, as we get whey into a vintage, milk bottle-shaped delivery truck which, I'm telling you right now, is the cream of the crop. *Ok, I'm done.*

Brought to our attention by a post in Facebook group [Ugly, Odd & Unique Automotive Masterpieces](<https://www.facebook.com/groups/oddvehicles/permalink/506176134053709/>), this truck was, as its livery makes obvious, built for Luick Dairy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was clad in a body of aluminum and wrapped over the wooden frame of a 1930s Dodge KC half-ton truck, according to a book scan posted to the [Antique Automobile Club of America](<https://forums.aaca.org/topic/135742-1918-db-pep-o-mint-mobile/>). In its neck sat either a 190 cubic-inch Plymouth or 201ci Dodge flathead straight-six, according to [*How Stuff Works*](<https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1935-dodge-kc-half-ton-pickup.htm>), either of which would have powered its rear wheels.

![message-editor%2F1622821675803-s-l1600.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1622821675803-s-l1600.jpg>)
*Ex-dairy Dodge milk bottle truck, *eBay | hobbygtx70**

A small fleet of these bottle trucks was constructed, with various sources claiming three to a nonspecific "several" built. It's unclear whether they were used more for delivery or promotional duties, though a hatch visible in the truck's rear end makes the possibility of the former clear. Whatever the case, at least one example was allegedly resold to a dairy in Berwick, Pennsylvania, where it served out its useful life before being left in a field to go sour.

![message-editor%2F1622821727490-s-l1600-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1622821727490-s-l1600-2.jpg>)
*Ex-dairy Dodge milk bottle truck, *eBay | hobbygtx70**

![message-editor%2F1622839766272-579c050c65e00\_luickdairyco.milwaukeemilkbottlevehicle.jpg.a62bbcb0d72b2af6a7bd7a5bbf68669c.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1622839766272-579c050c65e00_luickdairyco.milwaukeemilkbottlevehicle.jpg.a62bbcb0d72b2af6a7bd7a5bbf68669c.jpg>)
**Unknown, via productmobiles.blogspot.com**

Said truck has, according to *[Barn Finds](<https://barnfinds.com/1930-reo-milk-bottle-truck-2/>),* popped up for sale at least three times since 2016, on each occasion in what auctioneers craftily call "restorable" shape. In other words, it has no engine, a body that's falling apart, and a frame in worse shape than my ability to flirt after 15 months of quarantine. It may not rot out in a field much longer, though, as [its eBay listing](<https://www.ebay.com/itm/265178956667?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336858830&customid=71750&toolid=10001&mkevt=1>) has hundreds of watchers, and healthy competition between bidders with two days left to go.

Whoever ends up winning it, I *cal-cium* walking away from a project this neat.

*Need to threaten the author for that crime against the English language? You can reach them here: james@thedrive.com*

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)