I wasn’t aware that Dodge offered a W200 in a short bed pickup in this era and can’t find any information about them, even on brochures that only list a regular long bed for 4×4 3/4-ton pickups. Maybe one of you will know if this 1967 Dodge W200 4×4 Styleside Power Wagon short bed truck is original or modified. It’s posted here on craigslist in Spokane, Washington, and the seller is asking $24,998 or best offer. Here is the original listing, and thanks to T.J. for the tip!
All the info I can find shows the W200 as having a 128-inch wheelbase as opposed to a 114-inch wheelbase for short bed pickups, which were available on the W100 1/2-ton 4×4 pickups but not on the W200 3/4-ton trucks. There was also a 146-inch wheelbase for crew cab trucks. Was that confusing enough? Whatever wheelbase or bed size this truck had, or has, or will have… I love the look of it.
About that asking price, though. Given the cosmetic look of the body, it sure seems like the seller is shooting for the moon to me. Not many of us are experts on values so we rely on sites like Hagerty, which lists a #4 fair-condition truck as being worth $11,400 and a #3 good truck as being $18,000. This truck used to be red and it needs paint anyway so I’d bring it back to as close to the original spec as possible. And you know me, I’d use a bit narrower tires, although these aren’t as big as most 4×4 pickups seem to be wearing these days.
Speaking of original spec, this truck is wearing the ultimate nose ring, check out that Peterbilt-crushing front bumper and winch! Patina-heavy, the interior looks as rugged as the exterior does. Not having power steering means this truck would be a beast to parallel park on Dayton Way while you run into Louis Vuitton on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, but with 4WD, you can probably just park it on one of the Teslas. I didn’t say that out loud, just for the record.
The engine is Dodge’s optional 318 V8, the only V8 option for this truck in 1967. It would have had 200 horsepower, and this one has an extra battery for the winch, a nice touch. It sends power through a tough four-speed manual that has been rebuilt and the seller lists an incredible amount of things that have been done to this truck, so please check out the listing. This has to be a factory short bed pickup, but can any of you confirm that?
Drive this to the gym and you’ll have your 1/2 hour warmup before you even get there! Rugged truck, a lot of attention to refreshed mechanicals. It’d be one you could probably park with the keys in the ignition anywhere in a big city and it’ll be there-or within a couple blocks-a week later.
(BTW Scotty-methinks you’ve already started into the hard eggnog. You’ve listed it as a ‘66..😁)
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The fire apparatus manufacturer that I worked for ordered chassis to be drop shipped to our facility for completion. In the midst of a large US Forest Service order, a Navistar cab and chassis went missing. The drive away driver left Navistar with it, but ran out of money, so they abandoned it at a truck stop, with the doors unlocked and the keys in the ignition. It sat there for months, with the truck stop management even moving it out of the way to the perimeter of the lot. No one thought to look into why it was just sitting there or make a phone call about it. A new chassis was even ordered to replace it. One day, some Forest Service employees stopped at the truck stop and noticed it sitting there, covered in dirt. Mystery solved. It was a new one for me, even after decades of dealing with weird stuff.
Wow, that gearshift is thicker in diameter than some drive axles on small economy cars!!! Just a thought, perhaps someone swapped out the suspension and axles/wheels off a 3/4 ton or even a 1 ton of the same vintage? This is just a great truck. Even with manual steering I’d have a blast driving this thing, running it through the gears and listening to them whine. There’s something that I just enjoy about listening to all the gears and everything working as you’re driving an old truck like this. I wouldn’t even bother with a radio, just enjoy listening to the music the truck is making. As much as I prefer having a vehicle painted and shiny, this one I think I’d leave alone and enjoy it as is, heck, its not like you’regoing to worry about a door ding or scratch getting added to it at the Home Depot parking lot. That front push bar just yells MOVE!!! To anyone in front of you. Great truck, great find.
Well, seems to me( pulling suspenders) this, being red, may have been a fire brush truck that someone ill-fitted an older box on, and of course, the “outta my way” bumper added later, just looks too HD for the masses. The public rarely had red vehicles to avoid the “where’s the fire, Chief” jokes.
$25 grand, people sure have a distorted view for pricing. Newsflash,,, plow truck, a grand tops. How the authors can keep a straight face with such foolishness, only proves their professionalism.
Hey Howard, I’m with you on the bed, why does it set an inch or more higher than the belt line and the bottom edge roll in more than the cab?
Very Cool ! ……Not 25k cool !
The bed doesn’t look like it even belongs on this truck. Nothing lines up. It’s most likely a conversion of sorts. They should have done some converting that patina back to good metal instead, especially at that price.
SWEET(If not a little over my price limit). I can imagine driving that baby down the road and literally everything would get out of it’s way. Hit it with a modern tinfoil rig and there would be noting left….of the tinfoil rig and a minor rub mark on the Dodge. Even cooler with a real transmission AND 4WD! Just a little out of range for me :-(
$24,998 –What else goes with it for that price? I like it yes,but I can see he is waiting for someone with deep pockets and their elevator doesn,t go all the way. I guess he pulled up a bed–waiting like Rip Van Winkle.Good luck
Now HERE’S a truck for you! One you can REALLY work with without worrying about scratching that shiny
new bed with a water heater you just
bought at Lowe’s or whatever kind of
stuff you throw in the bed to get a job
done with no muss, no fuss, or bother. And it looks like our seller ordered a Crash And Smash Road Rage bumper kit from Ronco too! Were this truck in Florida, our seller
would get his asking price and perhaps a bit more too. Trucks are big here and always have been. I saw
a car dealer sell a worn out ’65 Chevy
pickup with a bent frame and mangled bed for close to $10K in 1986 and it hasn’t stopped yet. If it’s
a truck, these good ol’ boys will buy it no
matter the cost or what it’s needs might be. I recall knowing a fellow who used an old Dodge M-37 to deliver newspapers for the Lakeland
Ledger in the mid ’90s. He ran Route
2859, which was located in a rural part of Polk County not far from Auburndale. The roads on that route
would’ve made a great practice site for the Mexican 1000 off road race they had way back when. Long story
short, the guy made $750 a week driving 20 or so miles to deliver less
than 100 papers! Great truck!
Back in the late 50s to the early 70s the government ordered a ton of short box 4X4 3/4 ton Dodge trucks. I used to see them all over the place. I remember a local farmer bought a new 3/4 ton 4X4 Dodge back in the early 70s. It must have had a larger engine because he towed up to 3 cotton trailers to the cotton gin every day, and those were heavily loaded trailers back then.
I owned and drove an almost identical W200 with the standard wheebase, the same driveline, and an 8 foot Fisher power-angle snow plow. Even with 4.10 gears, there was no problem keeping up with normal traffic (although I never drove over 55 mph.) Everyone remarks about the hard steering without power assistance, yet I never gave a thought to it at the time. As long as the truck was in motion, even very slowly, the steering wasn’t particularly hard. Few if any light trucks back then even had PS as an option. These were great trucks with the exception of the tendency of the cab to rust severely. Lifting the doors to allow them to latch became second nature!
Ahh the Grey Ghost lives!! my future father-in-law had one with a plow on the front of course. In 68 I was doing the plowing for him in upper Michigan, home of 300 inches per year. It was unstoppable. That includes driving through the woods and knocking out any small trees in your way. Go anywhere, do anything. Very few left but too pricey.