I should have seen it coming. After Icon started made a (successful) business case for selling $150K Jeeps, FJs and Broncos, the Dodge Power Wagon was looking a bit…overlooked. No longer. Legacy Power Wagons is now ready to take your order for completely rebuilt and fully updated Power Wagons (CC here), including this extended cab version (starting at $150k). Not big enough? There’s a double cab version too ($170k).
Here it is. Sadly, two Power Wagons have to give up their cabs to make one of these. But is sure is a nice looking truck. Plenty of power available too: your choice of a “426 Legacy Magnum V8, MPI, 425 HP” (what exactly is that? Current HEMI?) or a 3.9 L Cummins with 480 ft/lbs of torque (4BT).
If your Wyoming play-ranch is on a budget, the regular cab Legacy PW starts at a mere $120k. Legacy is busy scouting fields and junk yards for PW “donors”. So what are you waiting for? Legacypowewagon.
hat tip to Redmondjp
I’m ashamed to admit…. but I love these!
What? No flathead 6? Sacrilege!
For any Power Wagon fans in Northern California, the Safari West wild animal preserve near Santa Rosa uses restored Power Wagons for tours of their exotic animal park. We took our daughter there for a birthday when she was younger and it’s really quite nice. The Power Wagons are clean and functional but not over done, and most importantly seemed original, ie flathead powered! While the others were checking out peacocks or zebras or something, I wandered over to the garage and chatted with one of the staff who was deep in the bowels of one of the engines. It’s definitely a labor of love … they could just as well use olive drab painted F250’s, although I seem to remember a few older Land Rovers, which are perhaps even more “safari” suitable.
Thanks Paul…I freakin love these!
I’ve been toying with the idea of purchasing a surplus military M37 as my home project truck…I need a truck but I don’t want anything too urban cowboy because then my wife would want to drive it everyday and that wouldn’t make much sense to me.
There’s just something about that truck that gives it a Mack Bulldog look of toughness. I’m not sure how Dodge could have gotten by with the headlamps, but here in the flesh is what the redesigned Dodge Ram should have been in 1994.
Love these but it’s not 150K love .
I want this:
http://www.legacypowerwagon.com/Legacy-Power-Wagon-Woodie-Conversion_p_35.html
Although it is a little steep for me at $249K.
Nice, but, wow, thats steep.
“Add To Cart”
“Calculate Shipping”
I love it!
I wonder if they take PayPal?
Dodge/Chrysler could have made these themselves in order to “horn in” on the profitable Hummer craze a few years back. We can easily imagine these things with their ginormous tires and painted in camouflage, bright yellow, or black.. sitting in the parking lots of Cracker Barrell restaurants across the country. To their credit, Chrysler didn’t do it.
The did make a ‘Power Wagon’ for at least a few years. It was a Ram pickup with 33 or 35 inch tires, suspension lift, lockers and a hidden winch. Essentially a pickup version of the Wrangler Rubicon. I don’t think they sold that well, I haven’t seen one in the wild and they’re never mentioned in the press.
Dodge..er Ram…still makes the Power Wagon. Its been around since 2005.
Its essentially the Rubicon version of the Ram 2500. Lockers front and back, front sway bar disconnect, heavy duty everything, lift and big tires, factory winch and rocker guards etc….cool truck that just doesn’t sell well. I guess Dodge’s big sell is the Cummings, and the Power Wagon can only be had with the Hemi…something to do with the winch taking up too much room to fit the cummings in the engine bay..
Me want!
The original Power Wagon was sold through 1968, but there was also a Power Wagon version of the Sweptline pickups. That one continued through the 1970s. We found one here. https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classic-1975-dodge-power-wagon-a-sort-of-civilized-outdoorsman/
I love the idea but have seen enough extended cab forty something pickups to know that you don’t need to kill two original for the creation of one. I couldn’t afford to put gas in one of these let alone buy one.
I must admit, I hadn’t heard of the Power Wagon until I read the earlier CC back in 2011. Reading about it then was yet another reason why Curbside Classic rocks! The woodie station wagon version is sheer awesomeness! Didn’t the Sultan of Brunei (or simone similar) get a monster sized replica PW built that had bedrooms and bathrooms etc?
Cool trucks, but not $100K+ cool. I like how their website has “quantity” and “add to cart” icons on the page, like you were buying a movie or a book 🙂
I do love the ‘medium duty’ 4×4- having a power wagon for an expedition car would be awesome. But 120K? That’s almost as much as my house. Then again, I don’t think you could get a working unrestored PW for much under 20K.
These things left the early Unimog in the shade- the Power Wagon had the luxury of a steel roof and a more useful wheelbase.
For those of us on a lesser budget, but who still want a vintage monster 4×4 that can go anywhere, it seems that ex-soviet trucks are the only option- a under 3000 mile GAZ 66 (cab over) is about £5K, with the only drawback being a gear shift behind your back and the engine between you and your passenger. These get 12-15mpg on the road.
Slightly more money would purchase a Zil 131- a true monster of a truck. 7mpg is achievable on the road. That’s about the same as a big block mid-70s Mercury.
The best part of these ex-soviet trucks is that they are equipped with a fully insulated off-road safe cabin in the back- making them the perfect expedition truck. You really could travel the world and live in it. That’s on my bucket list.
Another great thing is that these will run on ‘contaminated’ fuel. In the UK where over half of the cars are diesels, people often mis-fuel their cars and have to have the petrol/diesel mix sucked out. Towing companies have to pay to have this stuff removed. A GAZ or Zil 131 will run on this muck, meaning that if you become friendly with your local recovery company, you could drive a gigantic 4×4 for nothing.
The Siberia part of ‘Long Way Round’ really shows just what monsters these trucks are.
That said, the Power Wagon is still far better looking than either Soviet truck. Were these all steel cabs or was it timber framed?
This is the article that led me to find out about this guy:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130103/AUTO03/301030331
He got laid off and starting doing his hobby as a full-time job!