The Ultimate 4x4

This was the ultimate 4x4. It was a 55 Chevy 4door wagon on a 73 Dodge power wagon running gear. The added weight of the wagon body with all the leaded body seams and all that glass made the weight ratio over the tires pretty even. This thing could climb and go though mud. "This" vehicle no longer exist at the present just the running gear remain. The floor on the wagon was to rusted to keep driving. The vehicle would stop 10-15 seconds before you and the front seat would stop rocking. Well maybe not that long but you get the picture. Sold the body to a local body man that has 55 & 58's so the front clip and the glass went to good use. As for the running gear it has seen life under G-Pa Wiggins 63 Ford Fairlane, then the 46. Now it sits waiting for me to find another 55 or 56 non rusted out wagon to come to life once again.

I bought the 55 shortly after I graduated High School. The wagon had sat in the p.o. side yard as long as I could remember. We would pass by it on our way north out of town. The wagon was up to the floor board in dirt. It had sat there many years, several time being partly under flood waters. The reason for the floor being so rusted out. Any way I had plans to fix it up, but could never get it to run after an overhaul of the six cylinder. So I lost interest in it, and there it sat..........Until my Bother-in-law told me of the 73 power wagon for sale. It needed a tranny, I had a 727 tranny from a 68 New Yorker. But that is another story. At the time we were in the "Muddin" phase. You know drive your car though the muddiest hole you could find. Well the old 69 Rambler American with chopped off top just wasn't enough vehicle. With necessity being the Mother of all inventions, The 55 Chevy Power Wagon was born.