Looking like it was plucked out of a Hollywood backlot, as having been the ride for the star of some action/adventure series, this 1987 Dodge Power Ram LE 4×4 is one cool-looking truck. The seller has it listed here on eBay in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles west of Boise, home of Barn Finds (this has company truck written all over it!). There is no reserve and the current bid price is $10,559.
This seller is just hitting a grand slam with the photos, there are a ton of them, and they’re all great. Maybe other than the engine photos, which are mostly close-ups, and I wonder if it’s because this truck is so high that it’s hard to get a photo of it without a ladder. Although, the photo above is taken from high enough to get a good engine photo. In any case, nice job, seller!
I believe that this is a W150 as opposed to a W100. In doing some research, including a 1987 Dodge brochure, the W150 Power Rams had the leaping ram LE badge on the front fenders. They don’t list that for a W100 Power Ram. One of the Barn Finds family of readers who is a Dodge expert will know for sure. In any case, this is one rough and also beautiful truck in this two-tone color. You noticed the upgraded aftermarket LED headlights, have any of you used those? I haven’t and was just wondering if they work, or are more of a gimmick.
The interior is as nice as most of us expected it to be, I don’t see a flaw anywhere here. The bed seems to have some sort of nubby finish on it, and the seller mentions that it has a bedliner. I don’t remember seeing a color-matched bedliner on too many trucks, that’s nice. The underside also appears to have a coating on portions of it, which seems to be getting more common these days. It looks rock-solid under there, though, which is the big thing. They say that it’s solid metal and “no salt”, which is nice to hear after growing up in a heavily-salted winter nightmare here in the upper Midwest.
The engine is an “upgraded and built” 318-cu.in. OHV V8 and we don’t know the horsepower but it would have originally had 145 hp. They don’t say how it runs but I have to assume that everything works and it runs fine. Hagerty is at $16,000 for a #3 good-condition truck so this one will be a bargain at anything less than that. Any thoughts on this good-looking Power Ram?
Very cool, except led headlights.
And the block painted Chevrolet orange.
Maybe that’s Hemi orange to make it have more power and go faster. Just sayin’. That truck is beautiful, BTW. If it wasn’t so far away and I had some money and if I didn’t already have a beautiful truck I’d be interested.
After allmetalclassics aka allidahoclassics listed a free wheelin’ bronco as rust free that had through hole rust a few weeks prior and had put patch panels on it, I don’t trust a single sale item they have without fully inspecting in person and maybe even having someone go through it for me too.
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You are referring to a Bronco that was purchased from Wyoming and built for a client by us, All Metal Classics, about 5 years ago. It actually only took 14 hours to cut the rust out and weld in good metal. Just a small amount behind the rear tires.
I guess if it took us longer to complete that job we would be more trust worthy.
Thanks for the constructive criticism, always helpful. Maxim magazine actually wrote an article about that same Bronco, using it to advertise the upcoming new Bronco that was about to be unveiled at the time. Super cool build and we were honored and humbled to bring it back to life
love it!
That by-pass hose is about to blow!
It does but if you look real close I think it’s a shadowing effect making it look swollen.
This truck looks cool you don’t see any around but 145 hp don’t haul anything in it because it ain’t going anywhere,I had two chevys with 305s in them with 160 hp?they can’t get out of their way and don’t pull into on coming traffic
That is one nice older Dodge Ram. Who ever gets this Truck is getting one of the cleanest rust free 80s truck iv seen in years
$16,600 now. 1800 miles away. Fly in, drive back. 🤔 That’s a long trip in an unknown, untested vehicle. Dang nice truck!
Is it just me or do the interior of the doors look like the paint is the wrong color?
What a beautiful truck if only I had the funds to buy it. Also those 318 motors will last for a long time. Hope I hit the lottery because that would be sitting in my driveway…SWEET TRUCK !!
Not a survivor if it’s been built
This has a newer Magnum engine transplanted into it which was rated at 230 horses stock and the ad claims this one to be upgraded so it ought to perform far batter than the anemic 145 horse 318 it once had.