{"id":18487,"date":"2017-06-08T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T04:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2017-07-12T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:33:43","slug":"old-new-again-cooler-land-rover-legacy-power-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/old-new-again-cooler-land-rover-legacy-power-wagon\/","title":{"rendered":"When Old is New Again (and Cooler than your Land Rover): Legacy Power Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s better than owning a new truck? Taking home a re-vamped, revved-up, kitted-out OLD<\/em> car with a certain 1940s charm which is impossible to replicate in modern vehicles: That\u2019s what.<\/p>\n

Auto restoration firm Legacy Classic Trucks can make just such a dream come true for you. For a price, of course. Their 1940s Dodge Power Wagon restorations have garnered some well-deserved attention from vintage enthusiasts and rev-heads alike. It even got Jay Leno\u2019s attention, and he subsequently featured it on an episode of Jay Leno\u2019s Garage.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegacy Power Wagon Conversion is the truck for the serious collector looking to recreate the ruggedness and integrity of the American West,\u201d according to the Legacy website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith each Legacy Power Wagon Conversion requiring well over 1,000 hours, the Legacy Power Wagon Conversion has become one of the most coveted and sought-after trucks of today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Legacy have built over 60 Power Wagons, so it\u2019s safe to say, they know what they\u2019re doing. These hard-working trucks weren\u2019t sitting in garages over past decades, getting a weekly polish and making the occasional trip to the general store. These were beasts of burden, being put to work anywhere from forestry to mining, back in their day.\u00a0Needless to say, they need some tender loving care to caress them into the 21st century keepsakes they become at Legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to keep the package original, keep what\u2019s great about the Dodge Power Wagon, but take the performance up to the next level,\u201d says Legacy Classic Trucks founder, Winslow Bent, speaking with the Truck Trend Network.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And when they say \u2018next level\u2019, they mean it. Legacy have added the mod cons you\u2019d expect in a new car such as air conditioning and some comfy suspension, but they\u2019ve added more than a little grunt to the engine. A 6.2L GM E-Rod LSA V-8 engine produces 585 horsepower and a crazy 580 lb-ft of torque. Whatever you can throw at this truck, it can take. As comfortable cruising down main street as it is bush-bashing, the Legacy Power Wagon and its 40 inch wheels are enough to bring out the boy in any grown man (or woman, for that matter.)<\/p>\n

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Then again, Jay Leno wouldn\u2019t see this truck in the hands of the glitterati or the California soccer moms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not something you make your Beverly Hills school run [with], like the Land Rover, you know. Where you pull into the mall and Buffy goes and gets her sneakers or whatever, I mean, it\u2019s a real truck<\/em> truck.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bent concurs:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou keep it in the barn. You wanna go elk hunting, or fishing or something like that, this is a great way to get around.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alright, well he is from Wyoming, so it\u2019s only fair that hunting, wearing flannel shirts and donning a trucker cap is par for the course on a regular day in the life of Winslow Bent. Heck, with a name like that we can just picture him slinging a slain elk into the tray of his Power Wagon and scooting on home for a chicken-fried steak. Nonetheless, this machine is going to tackle any task (mall trips or not) with aplomb. Plush interior, an engine to make the most composed of us break out in a drool and a paint job to turn heads (snap necks, perhaps); the Legacy Power Wagon is the stuff of\u2026well, legends.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s better than owning a new truck? Taking home a re-vamped, revved-up, kitted-out OLD car with a certain 1940s charm which is impossible to replicate in modern vehicles: That\u2019s what. Auto restoration firm Legacy Classic Trucks can make just such a dream come true for you. For a price, of course. Their 1940s Dodge Power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9853],"tags":[15354,15355,1438,3758,1211,15356],"yst_prominent_words":[10653,15348,4299,15350,15345,576,15351,3375,15349,15346,15344,15340,15341,1834,554,15342,15343,15353,15347,15352],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fast-machines","tag-classic-cars","tag-dodge","tag-restoration","tag-trucks","tag-vintage","tag-wagon","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.machines4u.com.au\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}