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 Post subject: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:32 am 
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THE REAL POWER WAGONS
These gained a strong reputation working hard on REAs , pipeline projects or
construction from Chevy or Ford affectionados. They were manufactured 1946-????


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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:03 am 
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I' ve owned this 47 since 1977 or so, found it about 20 miles from home.
I fell in love with these more than 50 years ago. My dad sold Dodges, my Uncle Lawrence traded for 3 POWER WAGONS from 250 miles west of here in ND.
I would go with my dad to the car lot after supper. When I saw the POWER WAGONS I sat in those things pulled the gear shift lever, wiggled the steering wheel, WOW I was in heaven.


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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:16 am 
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Looks nice! :P Did you see the 1964 that was on ebay restored by a guy in Lakeland? To date the cleanest one I ever saw.


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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:20 am 
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Just clean, clean... :P


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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:26 am 
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:shock: WoW that wagon is Clean. i always loved those. perfect color to!

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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:32 pm 
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My boys always called this 47 the electricity truck & rightly so because an electric coop owned it previously. It was up for bids I bid considerably higher than the local emoployees.
Here's a story from well,1958. My dad took a new Dodge C700 down to Mpls truck center to have the rear end changed in a truck. My sister & I got to ride along. There on the show room floor was a new red POWER WAGON. I wondered what the new owner thought of my fingerprints all over that beauty


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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:28 pm 
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If you kook closely @ the grille shell on the top pic of the restored POWER WAGON
you will notice the grille juts out a little. That is because the newer POWER WAGON used a 251 flat head 6 vs the 231. Apparently it was a longer block.


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 Post subject: Re: Vintage POWER WAGON
PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:32 am 
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that is COOL....was it a generator truck?????
there was one that was called a davey power wagon that has a pto powered generator....

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