1946 Power Wagon

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Suntrana Mining Co rail inspection Power Wagon, 1955

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/05/dodge-madness-on-rails.html

Doug sent this comment, Dec 19th 2024!

This was called the Doodlebug. It was used take passengers between the Suntrana Coal Mine and Healy before there was a road. Healy was an Alaska Railroad depot stop. I lived in Suntrana as a young lad with my family. My father was a miner there from 1952 to 1961 when Suntrana Mining Co. was sold to Usibelli Mine Co. Lots of memories.

Fire fighting demonstration with a Power Wagon in 1953

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AABTOU5T4YF63M8J

interesting use of an old Powerwagon

seen on today's walk

 

this is the most fucked up Porsche I've seen. It says Carrera across the hood

it hasn't moved since 2014. 

that is what it looked like before 8 years of neglect screwed up the paint

Today's installment of what the hell is under the car covers

I'm guessing Studebaker

the hood says Power Wagon, the bed says Prospector

the Firebird has original California license plates from 68 or 69, and hasn't moved from this spot since between 2011 and 2014

what a great beast, and with a flip up windshield, I bet it would a pleasure to take on slow rides through the back woods 2 rut roads, before or after, but not during, mosquito season

 

some cool vehicles just remain out of sight for decades, like this Powerwagon that was used to haul wood from the forest to a monastery in Vermont

A forest fire warden bought this 1956 Dodge Power Wagon from monks on a Vermont mountain. 

Deep in the woods on Mt. Equinox, the tallest mountain in southern Vermont, a group of about 15 men have joined in a life of extreme isolation and religious devotion. 

The members of the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration have taken vows of almost total silence and separation from the outside world, and made it their mission to spend their days praying for the rest of the outside world.

They live in separate cells, mostly meditating and praying alone. They eat once a day, alone in their room — save for a once-a-week group meal. They each have a wood-burning stove that they use for heat in their individual quarters, and some tools to cut and split their own wood.

That’s where the Power Wagon comes in. 

Several members of the group work to keep the monastery running, doing chores such as cooking, cleaning and gathering fire wood. It shouldn’t be surprising then that when a group living such a hard, Spartan existence needed a truck, they chose the most basic, strong-willed machine available. It only had one option available, the drivers side armrest. 

The Power Wagon is as tough and rugged as it looks. The monks only put 27,000 miles on the Dodge in all those years, serving as a lumber wagon and ATV.

A few years back, the brothers decided that it was time to move on to a more modern iron horse, and  ‘It would be nice if someone could give it a new home,’” chuckled Mattison. “So I said, ‘Well, OK.’ And I bought it. It was all original and all garage kept, but it wound up sitting at my house

It is now helping the Vermont State Forest Fire warden for the town of Glastenbury.

“I think the only blacktop it ever saw was from the dealership to the monastery,” says Mattison. “The same brother had it since ’56 when it was new. They used it to bring in about 100 cord of wood a year and it pretty much just lived out in the woods."

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1956-dodge-power-wagon  posted about this in March 2021, and a year and a half later, Hagerty posted about it https://www.hemmings.com/stories/restoration-1956-dodge-power-wagon/

This years winner of the Charles Schwab Challenge received a 1946 Dodge Power Wagon

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40911/pro-golfer-wins-1946-dodge-power-wagon-restomod-so-maybe-its-time-to-practice-your-swing

sure, why not?

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/12/stubby_16.html

Not sure how much is real, or photo shop, but probably all photoshop of an airstream and a Power Wagon made into something I hope someone builds and brings to SEMA

This Dodge Power Wagon is property of the Alaska Dept of Transportation and had been at used at the airport at Mary's Igloo, a tiny village outside of Nome. The tires are Air Streaks, manufactured for Bush aircraft.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/413414438697407/permalink/3588256337879852

I love it

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/06/transportation-in-raw.html

Dodge Power Wagon school bus, I like everything but the headlights

Clark Gable and a Power Wagon

http://www.cranestodaymagazine.com/features/turning-full-circle//image/turning-full-circle-147458.html

The forestry department cool Power Wagon for publicity, all explained in the video (thanks Tokyo Ton!)

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/09/dodge-madness_5.html

it's "Seawolf Submarine Green " a factory color, and it's the earliest known surviving Power Wagon... and likely only still exists because instead of earning a living like other work trucks, it was mollycoddled at a university for it's first 3 decades, and that's not a bad thing

the Power Wagon was the simple evolution of the WW2 Dodge military truck with a few mods for civilian life, and they barely had a blip in production before returning soldiers were demanding the same great offroading trucks they'd come to respect which they'd used in all sorts of foreign countries.

this one rolled off the production line on January 28, 1946

The truck you see here is the earliest known surviving Dodge Power Wagon, the 12th built in January of 1946. Its first owner was the Agricultural Engineering Department of Michigan State University. Its duties during nearly 30 years at MSU are unknown, but the truck was sold in the 1970s to an MSU employee who used it for a couple of decades, and then parked it for a couple more.

It ended up in the hands of Michael Mandzak, a product engineering manager for a Big Three automaker, in 2017.

Michael had more or less decided to get it running and driving well, fix the worst of the bodywork, redo the original MSU markings on the door, redo the upholstery, and let the old truck proudly show off its well-earned patina. It generated a great deal of excitement at the 2018 Vintage Power Wagon Rally (vintagepowerwagons.com).

http://www.fourwheeler.com/features/1808-backward-glances-survivor-the-earliest-known-remaining-dodge-power-wagon  tip of the hat to https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-earliest-known-remaining-power-wagon.html

a Power Wagon collector! How damn cool is that!

Reported by to be only 1 of 17 Dodge Power Wagon school buses known to exist

https://barnfinds.com/1948-dodge-power-wagon-school-bus/

Yes Virginia, this is a snow machine

terrific photo... clean mountain air, dirt roads, 4 wheel drive, etc

http://dinosauriens.info/?u=Legacy+Power+Wagon+Conversion++Dodge+Power+Wagon

seen at the Off Road Expo this past weekend, a couple cool old trucks

and this isn't just a convention center showpiece, they rock crawl with it