Start with what the Dodge A100 is: a 2-door pickup truck / 2-door van with 170 cuin Slant-6 I6, built from 1964 to 1970, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer.
The story
The A100 is a range of compact vans and trucks manufactured and marketed from 1964 to 1970 by Chrysler Corporation under the Dodge marque in the United States and the Fargo marque in Canada. The A100 competed with the Ford Econoline, Chevrolet Van, Chevy Corvair Greenbrier, and the Volkswagen Type 2. The range included a pickup truck and van, both with a "forward control" design. Placing the driver on top of the front axle with the engine between the front seats, just behind the front wheels makes it a "cab over" vehicle.
The unibody vehicles used a short 90 in (2,286 mm) wheelbase. An A108 was also available from 1967 to 1970, with a longer 108 in (2,743 mm) wheelbase. The A108 was popular with camper conversion companies. A substantially modified, Hemi-powered A100 wheelstanding exhibition pickup called the "Little Red Wagon", driven by Bill "Maverick" Golden, was a popular drag strip attraction from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
What is underneath
The engine is 170 cuin Slant-6 I6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 3-speed manual / 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is SWB: 90.0 in / LWB: 108.0 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Dodge line-up the Dodge A100 has a clear place: it replaced the Dodge Town Panel; it handed the line to the Dodge B-series; the factory was Warren, Michigan, United States (Warren Truck Assembly). The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Plymouth Barracuda, the Porsche 911, the Pontiac GTO. Nearby in the Dodge catalogue sit the Dodge 1500 and the 1955 Dodge.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Dodge A100 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.