Legacy Classic Trucks Power Wagon Ride and Drive

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Check out our adventure in a pair of Legacy Classic Trucks fully restored and updated Dodge Power Wagons that feature all the latest technology with the classic Dodge Pickup styling.

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00:00 Legacy Classic Trucks is an auto restoration business based out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

00:14 We're known for a lot of our four-wheel drive trucks, resto mods, for example, the Dodge

00:17 Power Wagon that we have here today.

00:20 This is one of 60 Dodge Power Wagons that we've built.

00:23 It's a full legacy conversion.

00:25 You've got power steering, hydro boost brakes, all the modern functionality that you would

00:29 come to expect in a really nice premium vehicle packaged in this cool, old-looking truck.

00:36 These were work trucks.

00:37 These were out there doing the toughest, nastiest jobs out there, whether you were in mining,

00:43 forestry, agriculture.

00:45 You have to remember that '46 to 1970 was a great time of growth in the American West,

00:50 so if you had a nasty job that you needed to get done, you needed a Dodge Power Wagon.

00:55 These were the four-wheel drive workhorses with the flat six engine, full floating axles,

01:02 came with a 10,000-pound Brayden winch on the front.

01:06 If you had something that was tough and nasty, you needed a Dodge Power Wagon.

01:10 So we've tried to keep all of the character of those original Power Wagons, not have them

01:15 lose their soul, but bring it up today to a package where it goes more than 40 miles

01:20 an hour.

01:21 This truck here today will cruise comfortably at 80 down the interstate, air conditioning

01:25 on, modern power, modern reliability.

01:28 So we've tried to keep the package original, keep what's great about the Dodge Power Wagon,

01:33 but take the performance up to the next level.

01:35 So I spend a lot of time driving around the Rocky Mountain West, and I find great, abandoned,

01:41 old Power Wagons tucked away in ranches, mines, forestry operations, and I go in and I rescue

01:47 these vehicles.

01:48 Sometimes that involves cutting trees out of them.

01:50 They're missing the bed.

01:52 They're missing pieces.

01:53 These things are hammered when I find them.

01:55 But each one comes with such a cool and unique history that when I find a vehicle, I want

02:00 to find out everything that I can about it.

02:03 That becomes the donor vehicle.

02:05 It, its history, all gets transferred to the new owner.

02:08 I build these vehicles to be functional.

02:11 They have to be incredibly reliable.

02:13 They have to be able to go to the most remote places in our country to get there and get

02:18 back.

02:19 So if you're into racing, fishing, oil and gas, whatever you're into, this truck is built

02:24 to take it.

02:24 [Music]

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