I’ve been looking for a power wagon and my friend finally gave me a location of this old dodge truck. All the PW’s I’ve seen have had a longer, flat hood where this truck has a short, slanted one. I’ve searched for hours but apparently I’m terrible at it.

Ive included a pic of the truck and one that I found online restored (0 information, just found a pic). Can someone please help me out here. Thanks in advance.

 

Are you able to look at the vehicle in person, should be a data tag on the door, B-3-PW or something similar to the. Idk exactly what model were looking at here

Looks like an old military model, might help narrow it down, by styling I would put it mid to late 50s, but thats a mildly educated guess

 

Given the sloping hood, grill guard, etc, looks to me like an early 40's weapons carrier.

 

That's not a Power Wagon. The PW didn't come out until 1946. Most likely it's a WC-12 or WC-13 from early in the war. Enclosed cab pickups with that cab weren't built later as they needed a military cab with a fold down top and windshield for a low profile in combat.

The post war power wagon had the straight hood but used the 1939 3 man cab until it ceased production in 1972. (1968 for U.S. sales.) If you won't get shot, look for data plates either in the drivers door or under the hood. If it's military, there will also be plates on the dash detailing bridge weight and all the other Gov't specs.

 

Ive continued research on this after yalls suggestions and I believe you are right. It looks to be a Wc12 or 13. I’ll try to get back by there and see if I can get some numbers off of it somewhere. Thank you all for your help. I’ll keep you updated!

 

I've been thinking (OW! Now my head hurts!). If you can, look in the cab on the dash and glove box door for flat metal plates. They will give the bridge weight, model, year of production and so on. This was definitely a stateside truck.

If you end up buying the truck, the body parts are difficult to find at times but the mechanicals are fairly easy to get. Even this long after production. The flat six in there was used until 1960 across the Mopar board and a slightly larger version was used in the M series Power Wagons until the end of production.

Regarding the P-3-PW mentioned before;



This is a 1952 B-3-PW. I had the truck for 4 years and only put 250 miles on it. These will run all day at 30 mph. They start to complain at 35 and at 40 you're just waiting to throw a piston rod. It had 5.88 gears. On the other hand, it didn't need roads. Just a path without big trees in it. As for the 1939 design 3 man cab, my brother-in-law was helping me do some tree work and we were shoulder to shoulder in the cab.