Designed for military use in WWII, the Dodge Power Wagon found plenty of heavy-duty use after the war. The trucks were designed to go anywhere and do anything, for big jobs like mining and moving lumber.
Shown off on the latest episode of Jay Leno's garage today is a restomodded 6x6 1942 Dodge Power Wagon. Winslow Bent is the man behind Legacy Classic Trucks, a Wyoming-based restoration company that isn't afraid to throw some modern touches into its gnarly projects.
As Bent tells it, he specializes in Power Wagons and starts with abandoned trucks he sees in places like fields and barns. The great things about Power Wagons is that they were overbuilt to be able to do any job that a customer might wish to perform.
Leno laughs about the fact that this truck can't really rust out, because the metal's too thick. This civilian-cabbed Power Wagon uses a Cummins turbodiesel engine, will climb just about anything, weighs 8000 lbs, and would probably survive a small explosion. Let's a see a Ferrari do that. Because with a $200,000 price tag, this Power Wagon costs about the same.