My name is Ryan Prettyman I am 34 and the truck belongs to my 15 yr old son Jonathan. The story begins when my father bought the truck new when I was in High School, I was a little jealous at the time because I loved these trucks. I was the one that worked on It from time to time and I always joked with my father about putting a Hemi in it for him. Several Years went by and my son and I were looking for a vehicle for him, so we bought the Dakota off my father and began the restoration, I live very close to Lmc and found it was very convenient to gets parts off them because there open every day. When the stock 3.9 V6 started knocking at 160,000 miles we pulled the trigger on the 5.7 Hemi swap, it was a great decision because it gets great gas mileage and picked up about 200hp! I have been driving the truck to work for a year now and my son has started driving it too, this was a great project for my son and I and we had some great father, son bonding, Thank you LMC for making this possible!