It is a '61 W-100 Powerwagon with a 318 poly and NP 435 4 speed. It originally came with a 7.5 or 8 foot Sweptline box, but Duane added a shortbox, as the truck has a short wheel base.
- Here is the Fargo sitting beside the '63 D-100 shortbed parts truck. I owned that truck briefly a couple of years ago.
- The original box has a buildable Fargo tail gate, and is neat due to the long sides on a short box.
I made a deal with him to buy it and the '63 sitting next to it. There is some horsetrading involved, but we got it done.
That '63 is a truck I used to own for a while and is the reason I have jgeebee63 as my user name.
It has a 273 out of a '65 Barracuda in it and a three on the tree. Duane and his dad bought that truck in Columbia Falls, Montana back in the late '80's from a wrecking yard down there. I was with them when they bought it, which was for the short bed that is now on the '61.
Logan's Pass is a very scenic, but treacherous winding mountain road that goes between Columbia Falls and Babb, Montana. Duane and I drove that '63 over Logan's Pass with the three on the tree popping out of second gear on the way up. We never bothered to check the brakes when we fired it up in the wrecking yard, but managed to get it down the other side with out driving off a cliff. We were both young and stupid, as I have been over that road in vehicles that cost a lot more than $400.00 and it is still a pretty hair raising trip at the best of times. We laughed about that over the weekend.
Anyway, I am excited to get the truck home and start working on it. I didn't plan on getting it, but when it came available I jumped at it.
The '63 will donate a few things to get my '67 going, but will be a future 4 eye build.
