Power Wagons in literature again!


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Posted by bruce in CO on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 11:31PM :

Note that this is NOT a book about trucks, but here's a short passage quoted from Redmond O'Hanlon's 1996 African adventurelogue, "Congo Journey":

'Well - if I ever make it out of all of this - my ambitions are to marry Chris, and then go find a truck.'
'A truck?'
'Yeah. One of those old Dodge Power Wagons. Late 1940's are best. They're like rubber-tyred tanks. The engines are not all that large, its true, but they're geared low and they make these growling noises as they lumber along the roads. I don't suppose I'd be lucky enough to find one with the back bit of the body, the pick-up box, still on it, not straight off. They're rare, those pick-up boxes. The trucks largely outlasted them: most all the early Dodge Power Wagons I've seen had some other thing codged on the back as a replacement for a rusted-and-gone box. And it doesn't end there, of course because you then have new priorities - headlights, I suspect, a glove-box door, a speedometer cable. You have to go find other Wagons like your own that are being parted out, Wagons that are at the end of their days on some farm or forestry outfit with all of their parts for sale. And I know what your thinking - why go looking for Dodge trucks when there's the house to work at? ...'

Doesn't that all sound too familiar???!!! Sorry for the longish post! Excellent book! Bruce



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