Posted by Eric B. on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 at 11:40AM :
In Reply to: Power Giant question....... posted by Kevin in Rehoboth on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 at 8:25AM :
All the 1957 Town Wagons used the same body with the filler neck hole behind the drivers door.
The PW TWs got a plug in that hole and a new filler neck hole cut in below the rear doors.
To put this hole in they had to move the rear Dodge badge over a little bit, so one giveaway to a factory 4wd body is the factory holes for the Dodge badge, one slightly cut off, and then new holes drilled over a bit to the side of the new filler neck hole.
Other then that the two bodies are basicly the same.
The problem you are running into with the fatcory literature is that Dodge reused any drawing that was close to right. This means that most 1957 PW TW literature is showing a 2wd body merged with 4wd front fenders and running gear.
This was like an early photo shop job.
As for modern trucks, lots of people add extra gas tanks inside the body and then use the original 2wd gas filler location for the filler neck.
I have seen lots of other things done as well, but the only parts that I have seen done the same way over and over are the rear filler necks.
Of course as the 57 PW TW was the first of the PW TWs it is possible a few of them came out with weird tanks as Dodge was trying to figure out what to do, but all the ones I have seen were the same so far.
I hope this helps.
Eric
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