Thread: Power Wagon build

Love it. One of the best restorations I've seen, and especially on such a rare piece of Australia's history.
I could sit watching video clips of this all day.

Originally Posted by BMKal

Love it. One of the best restorations I've seen, and especially on such a rare piece of Australia's history.
I could sit watching video clips of this all day.

I appreciate that,
interestingly, and much to my disdain, neither The Snowy Mountain Hydro association, nor the Snowy Museum at Adaminaby showed the slightest bit of interest when I contacted them during my research & asking for permissions to use logo. However Dodge (now Stellantis) are going to the trouble to manually pull the build card from microfiche archives, and the family that bought it from the Snowy in 1958 to use on their earthmoving business could not be more helpful.

I found this on Trove
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About a year or 2 ago I was in Shepparton Vic roads office and started chatting to a guy that was doing transfer of rego for a Power wagon - found at a farm outside Mooroopna - other than that I have no other info on it. I wonder if it too was part of the Snowy scheme.

Nice rest by the way. Power Wagons are one of my favourite vehicles and on the bucket list to own one.

Originally Posted by crash

About a year or 2 ago I was in Shepparton Vic roads office and started chatting to a guy that was doing transfer of rego for a Power wagon - found at a farm outside Mooroopna - other than that I have no other info on it. I wonder if it too was part of the Snowy scheme.

Nice rest by the way. Power Wagons are one of my favourite vehicles and on the bucket list to own one.

Cheers, I bought some Dodge stuff from a Landy Owner in Shepparton via Facebook marketplace who said his son had a Power Wagon, but from what I gather its a Dodge Weapons Carrier , could be that said vehicle. ??

That is very disappointing that neither the Snowy Mountains Hydro association, nor the Snowy Museum have shown interest in your vehicle restoration - and allowed you to use the logo. I would have thought that they would have jumped at the opportunity to be involved and to offer some support. A bit like the management of the local War Memorial & Museum here in Kalgoorlie / Boulder - you have to wonder at the logic and motives of some of the people running these organisations at times.

I will have to get back to have another look at the museum at Adaminaby one day. My parents used to own the dry cleaners at Tumut for a while, and my father (from a mining background) was always very interested in the history of the Snowy Scheme. I remember him organising us a tour (when I was about 14 or 15) through the Tumut 3 power station as he knew one of the engineers working there. We got to see a few parts of the Snowy Scheme which were not usually open to the public. Still a part of the country I would love to end up living in - but I can't see that happening. Closest I'm likely to get is Bendigo, as my son has recently got engaged and has sold his house here in Kalgoorlie and they've bought one just outside of Bendigo. He's in my old stomping ground - I studied at the Bendigo School of Mines many years ago.

I had this idea that as young bloke I'd driven a power wagon on a sheep station out in western NSW.

I had abandoned that thought because the one I drove was RHD until I saw your opening thread saying 88rhd's were built.

It was used as a water truck , had , I think an inertial starter on the floor, had no brakes , so when we got to a gate did a long slow circle while mate opened it and then another one on the other side to close.

Its only a memory so I may be wrong....lots of cockys had beasts like that.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I had this idea that as young bloke I'd driven a power wagon on a sheep station out in western NSW.

I had abandoned that thought because the one I drove was RHD until I saw your opening thread saying 88rhd's were built.

It was used as a water truck , had , I think an inertial starter on the floor, had no brakes , so when we got to a gate did a long slow circle while mate opened it and then another one on the other side to close.

Its only a memory so I may be wrong....lots of cockys had beasts like that.

Could be, the 6Volt LHD Power Wagons did have the floor starter, but I'm pretty sure they were 12V by 57-58 when the local RHD Power Wagons were assembled and had a push button start. ( I converted mine to 12V but retained floor starter)

RAAF took most of the RHD Power Wagons
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Fantastic restoration and video. Really enjoyed watching your skills and the process of restoring a rare truck.