Showing posts with label Power Wagon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power Wagon. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Low Power Wagon, In Glorious Color!


The color version of this post.  The idea is that this is a barn find, discovered after about two decades under a leaky roof.  After being extricated from beneath a pile of gunny sacks, the truck is simply cleaned, polished, and given a mechanical once over.  No new paint or other cosmetic work.  Not sure if you could match that color, anyway.  It was a custom mix, and no one can find the original recipe.

Of course, the question remains; is it possible to do this to a four wheel drive Power Wagon and keep it four wheel drive?  If it is, it would be awesome.

Painted in watercolor, 10x21 inches.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Low Power Wagon

Another low riding, completely impractical, and maybe impossible 4WD hot rod pickup. 

As with the first Impossible, the important part of this build is to get the body to scrape the pavement, while preserving the four wheel drive system.  The fact that the body has been sectioned compounds the problem, as there is now less space inside the sheetmetal in which to cram all the workings.  What do you do?  Relocate the engine to the bed, or the passenger seat?  You'd have to re-engineer the front wheel driveline.  Smaller engine?  Why bother?  What's the point of a Power Wagon without the power?

Can it be done in the real world, or is it doomed to be only a screwball idea on watercolor paper?