Posted by matt's pw fleet on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 at 1:48PM :
I was just typing a chapter for my autobiography for english and just thought you guys would like to read my story
also have a picture of my first truck
Chapter 5
My first vechile that I ever owned I bought myself, it is a 1962 Dodge PowerWagon. I bought this truck on the internet at a PowerWagon web site (dodgepowerwagon.com) when i just turned 15. It was located on the Wisconsin, Illionis border, luckly MEA weekend was comming upso me and my dad planed a drive up to get it. when we got there, we got there about 6:00am so we stoped at a dinner and had some breakfest. After breakfest it was only a block away until i got my new truck! When we pulled up into the drive way there is was .
My vary own truck! When you get up close to one they look like a tank, and they have about as much power as one too. So we begain to load to truck up with out any trouble and after that he showed up the one he had, (he bought the one I bought from him as a parts truck) and what a beatiful truck it was. Then we got started on our way home, then trouble struck, we blew a tire on the trailer, which was no biggie, but we had to drive about 20 milles on 3 tires on the trailer before we found a replacement. Then finally after 3 days on the road we finally get back home with my new truck.
After we got home we found out that we broke the supension on the chevy van that we used to pull it with, ( I gess the chey’s just can’t handle it.) I decided that for my first truck that I bought I would do a ground up restoration, and now 2 years later it is now sitting in the corner of the the back garade collecting dust. It currently has the motor almost done, and the frame primed and painted.