I've wanted one of these ever since I got into off roading back in the late eighties.

I can't afford this one, of course. Matter of fact, considering what they're selling for these days, I couldn't afford one, period. But life would be awfully boring if we didn't have our dreams, wouldn't it?

This one belongs to Tom Selleck...and it's going up for auction on June 25th!

Wonder what the capacity of that winch is!

I think this is the guy who built it. You need to be Tom Selleck to afford one. He does a great job keeping the look original but with all new underpinnings. He has enjoyed such success with the Power Wagon that he has branched out to include other designs as well.

Legacy Power Wagon | Old Dog. New Tricks.

Those are cool! I've seen the new ones but I don't know if it's just a name slapped on a Dodge Ram with a few extra features or actually a power wagon.

My off road dream truck is a Unimog!! but I will gladly take an oldy Land Rover....the real one! A late 80s - early 90s Toyota Hilux or just a Toyota Truck or 80s 4Runner.

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My neighbor built one almost that nice with a 5.9 Cummins. It took him 5 years and $60K. He drove it for a year and sold it after he realized that as nice as it was it was still a 60-year old truck. He only got about half what he had in to it. Beautiful truck though.

Mine is finding a '66 IHC Scout 800 short wheel base. Had one, sold it 20 years ago, and regretting doing that for 19 3/4 years now.

In the motor pool we had those old Power Wagon's. They were Marine proof tuff. The winch's on the one's we had were only limited by the shear pin rating and maintenance of the cable. Great trucks. Couldn't get them stuck, and we tried like all he!! to.

$250,000.00 and they want me to just " Add It To The Cart "?

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Heck, for that price I'll take two!

It's actually only $50,000 for the truck and $200,000 for the celebrity status.

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So many S&W's, so few funds!!

In late 1970, I was freshly discharged from the service, working for Duke Power, building those big steel towers you see marching across farmers' fields and up and down the Blue Ridge Mountains...making the princely sum of $2.51 an hour.

I wanted a Scout so bad, I couldn't stand it, but (story of my life) I couldn't afford one. There was an IH dealer/showroom just up the road from where I worked. I bet I'd stop by there two or three times a week on my way home from work, just to peer through the glass of that big window. They probably had to get the window cleaner guy out there every day to clean my hand and nose prints off the glass.

My current mode of transportation on and off road.....I guess you could call it a dream truck. This FJ replaced my old '85 4-Runner.

That's my better-half standing beside it in the first pic, then me, and then my old 4-Runner with the FJ.

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Last week I saw an old Scout, it looked like it just came off the showroom floor, they didn't last long around here, with the salt air.

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Or anywhere for that matter. I worked for IHC at a branch (company owned dealer/repair facility) after I got out of the service in '73. Darn Scouts and Travelalls started to rust as soon as they were unloaded off the transports.

My oldest nephew had a Power Wagon for a few years, the one with a "Suburban" or station wagon style body. Family and friends called it "The Beast."

Well, if we're showing pictures, here's my off-roader. 1968 1300C. (No rust by the way!)

My current and favorite:

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So many S&W's, so few funds!!

I'll probably never have my Power Wagon Dream Truck.

But my Real World Dream Truck is still my ol' 1990 Toyota 4Runner that I bought when it was brand spankin' new 26 years ago.

A big chunk of my life and a lot of memories are wrapped up in that truck. Just put a new clutch in it a couple of weeks or so ago, along with some other minor fixes. It has the V6 with 5-speed. Original paint, too.

Upgraded the stereo in it last year...finally replaced the original AM/FM cassette player. Yes, I said cassette player.

It'll never be for sale in my lifetime, and I've made arrangements for it to be well taken care of after I'm gone.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! I like that a lot. Wouldn't mind seeing some more photos of that one.

Ozark Marine, I've got a friend here that has two or three old scouts in his fence rows behind his house. you might make one good one out of them. lee

Thanks Lee, but I'm alittle to old to start a project like that.

I bet that winch will do this,

probably gonna need a bigger tree though.

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With the Hemi if we're talking current options. With a Cummins if we're pretending I hit the Mega Millions today.

Date: June 1966
Place: Naval Construction Battalion Center, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Davisville, RI

Construction Mechanic Price is assigned to Driver Training School and Immediately falls in love with an elderly Dodge Power Wagon, only to be yanked from it and assigned to a MultiFuel 5 ton dump.

I had wanted a 'Big Hub' Chevy 4x4 3/4 ton since at least high school. I came across this one on Craigslist one day and was at the owner's home 5 minutes after work. It was rust free, with the original wood bed still intact. It had all the options - wood grain dash and doors, AC, sliding back glass, triple fuel tanks, Power everything. It even has the original 1972 Texas Farm Truck license plates. I think that my mother's father had a 1972 C-10 White over blue (3 on the tree, 350cid) that probably helped plant the seed of desire for this make/model/year of truck - and the 4x4 3/4 ton just pushed me over the edge

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Now, one of the fire chiefs that I deal with on a regular basis has a Power Wagon like shown in the OP and I have been lusting after one. My wife spied a 1963 Scout at the paint shop and just has to have one of those. Too bad it is only a 4 banger and no AC = Deal Breaker in S. Texas heat.

Thanks for sharing guys, I really like the old car/truck threads.

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Today I saw a old Jeep wagon from back in the 50's, I couldn't believe how small the tail lights back then.

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My baby, and she's as fast as she looks.

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I have a friend that had a 1978 or 9 IHC Scout II with a 4 banger diesel. That little guy could climb a mountain and the tree at the summit!

My first vehicle was a 6 month old 1974 Chevy K-5 Blazer in Moss Tone Green. I put great big Mickey Thompson off road tire on it and normally goy about 9 or 10 MPG. It rusted to death in 1986 and replaced it with a 1979 Tan Suburban. It had 234,000 mile on it when I bought it for $1400. It lasted until 1999 and 325,000. With normal sized mud and snow tires it got about 14 MPG. I would put a pile of kids in it (personal record was 8 kids and 4 adults) and go camping along the Ohio river. I didn't mind seeing the highway through the floor boards, but when the rust took over the brake lines, I decided the kids safety was more important than the fun.

I had a Warn 4 ton winch on a big crash bumper that I moved from vehicle to vehicle. I only needed it off road once, when I had to drag my K-5 through a bog. Mostly I recovered jeeps that that the owners didn't know how to use the gas pedal and transmission to keep from getting stuck.

My wife and I keep at least one 4x4 in the family at all times. I'm currently driving a 2000 GMC 1500 Z71 4x4 with 188,000 on it. The rust has started, but it is still so low mileage I hate to get rid of it.

Ivan

I would like a new basic crew cab F-150 with the old Ford V-8. Hand wound windows would be great! Would be the last vehicle that I would need to buy.

Good luck with that! The biggest engine is now the 302 (5.0 liter). Ford doesn't even offer a manual transmission in ANY of it's F series trucks, that I could find.

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There were at least half a dozen Power Wagons abandoned at a river crossing leading to the Kennecott copper mine near McCarthy, Alaska.
It was thirty years ago, and they were not drive-able, but they still had a lot of solid metal. Might be on National Park land, and "protected" from salvage though.

Check this out

Legacy Power Wagon | 2-Door

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Jorge

With what you make being a Moderator, you've probably got enough money to burn a wet mule!

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Yeah, I've read pretty much everything I can find on Legacy.

There's a good article here.

And a five-page article here.

The trucks are brutally beautiful, visually stunning enough to just stop you dead in your tracks if you see one.

The new 2016 JEEP GLADIATOR has the look.........
Should be a big seller.

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I like the new Ram Power Wagons . But as usual I lean towards the Laramie model. Here is as close as I can get. Not as nice. Not a truck. But I like the old girl and she is paid for. I must admit though I have found myself recently wondering how many Smith's I could buy if I sold her.

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Sold for $110,000 - a bargain compared to Legacy Power Wagons.

Most likely never get around to it..... Time wise or $ wise.
Straight from the natural gas pipelines in West by God. My uncle told me when he brought it home, it would only do 45mph. He plowed snow for years with it. The winch is gone, for years now. But it still has the rear PTO. That's a time when trucks were trucks..... Not high $ grocery getters.

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Bob

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BTW the ole Ford there is a 97. Good old truck. Doesn't even have A/C.

Bob

Well, I'd take either one of those trucks right now, but especially the one on the trailer. I'm imagining what would be a good truck gun for them. Old trucks, old guns...what's not to like.

I always favored the one Steve McQueen had with the camper on back.
Classy.

You aren't serious, are you? That would fetch a pretty penny, that's for sure. I know you know that. I'd have to want some Smiths really bad to even think about selling that.