The New Dodge Power Wagon You Really Want - Four Wheeler Network
The Dodge Power Wagon holds a unique place in 4x4 lore. Other than the various iterations of Jeeps used quite successfully around the world during World War II that catapulted the still rising popularity of Jeeps today, the classic Power Wagon may just be the most hallowed of four-wheel-drive vehicles... Although production of the Power Wagon didn’t begin until 1945 (introduced in 1946), it was a direct descendent of the Dodge 3/4-ton WC series military trucks used by GIs in combat theatres all over the world. Sadly, the Dodge Power Wagon was discontinued in 1980, (the famous nameplate was reintroduced under the Ram Truck brand in 2005), but as with all legendary figures, a love of the original survives today. Most of those original Power Wagons, however, did not survive well. Legacy searches out, finds, and rescues these rusting hulks, and uses them to deliver a completely restored classic Power Wagon with modern guts to awaiting customers. Before our on- and off-road drive in the hills surrounding Ojai, California, Winslow Bent, founder of Legacy Classic Trucks located in Driggs, Idaho, told us, “We search all over the country for donor trucks, but almost all of them are trashed. Source: www.fourwheeler.com
