zzdcar
Home
/
Reviews
/
Buying
/
Someone Put a GMC Sonoma Body Onto a Dodge Power Wagon Frame
Someone Put a GMC Sonoma Body Onto a Dodge Power Wagon Frame-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:09:42

Image: Craigslist

The is a small truck with about as much soul as a stick of margarine, so why someone would use its body to adorn a beefy Dodge Power Wagon frame is just beyond me. But is so random that I’ve decided that I like it.

We at Jalopnik quite often come across strange builds involving one vehicle’s body plopped onto another’s frame, but generally, the bodies is from a cool car, or at the very least, from an unusual one (like a ). That’s what makes this particular build so odd: It’s just a regular old GMC Sonoma, and it sits on the frame of a quite awesome 1968 Dodge Power Wagon.

I won’t pretend to be a Power Wagon expert, but if I had to guess based on the 225 cubic-inch slant-six under the hood, I bet the frame comes from a “W-series” truck like the one shown below, which is in Ohio for $27,500.

Image: Dodgepowerwagon.com

The Sonoma Wagon owner is looking to fetch much less, with the asking price sitting at $1,200 or $1,000 sans the wheels. Per the listing, bolted to the slant six is a “3 speed manual transmission with granny gear,” which I interpret as being a four-speed (possibly the W-Series Power Wagon’s heavy-duty stock NP-435 gearbox), though it’s possible that the seller threw some sort of true three-speed in there.

Image: Craigslist

The truck has custom fenders and a bespoke dump bed out back, but it doesn’t have hydraulics, so if you want to spill a huge load of chopped-up Sonoma frame bits, grab some strong buddies and get ready to lift.

Underneath, there’s a divorced transfer case, beefy axles with a disc brake conversion, and 37-inch military tires. The seller says the truck runs but needs its carb tuned. It’s also not road legal, at least in part, because it doesn’t pass emissions.

Image: Craigslist

The asking price isn’t all that high, and the vehicle doesn’t really look too bad in that front photo above, but it’s still a sweet old Dodge truck frame with a Sonoma on top—a sad, droopy-hood-having, small-headlighted GMC Sonoma. I have no idea why someone decided to do this body-swap.

Actually I do; I bet the old sheetmetal was toast (or used for another project), and this is just what the builder had sitting around. I applaud the ingenuity.

Comments
Welcome to zzdcar comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
Buying
At $12,000, Is This 1984 VW Jetta a Coup of a Coupe?
At $12,000, Is This 1984 VW Jetta a Coup of a Coupe?
At one time, the Jetta was VW’s best-selling car in the U.S. Two-door editions like today’s car never contributed much to those numbers. Let’s see if rarity and its condition, can make this one worth its asking. There was a lot of disagreement over last Friday’s and its $8,500...
Sep 10, 2025
The 2023 Toyota GR Corolla Promises Hot-Hatch Bliss for Just Under $37,000
The 2023 Toyota GR Corolla Promises Hot-Hatch Bliss for Just Under $37,000
It’s been since Toyota the existence of the GR Corolla, and what’s felt like an eternity since the automaker first let on that the hot hatch was in development. To say that the 300-horsepower, all-wheel-drive rally-bred road car has been a would be an understatement. Up until now, one...
Sep 10, 2025
The E92 BMW M3 Lime Rock Park Is a Sports Car Higher Truth
The E92 BMW M3 Lime Rock Park Is a Sports Car Higher Truth
This year marks the 50th anniversary of BMW’s M division. That fateful letter has given us some of the best driver’s cars ever, and high on that list is the E92 M3, the first and only M3 with a V8. That model’s swan song was the limited-edition Lime Rock...
Sep 10, 2025
At $9,900, Is This 1989 Rayton-Fissore Laforza an Off-Roader That's On-Point?
At $9,900, Is This 1989 Rayton-Fissore Laforza an Off-Roader That's On-Point?
Do you like engaging with questioning strangers? If so, you’d love owning today’s Laforza and the opportunities it affords to expound upon its history when people ask “what’s that?” Let’s see what such social interaction might rightfully cost. I once read that people in some countries choose two-door cars...
Sep 10, 2025
1922 Rochester Newspaper Ad Shows How Car Prices Have Changed Over 100 Years
1922 Rochester Newspaper Ad Shows How Car Prices Have Changed Over 100 Years
Once upon a Wednesday dreary, while I posted, weak and weary, Blogging many a quaint and curious volume of — While I typed there, keyboard singing, suddenly there came a Slack ding, As of someone gently pinging, pinging the Jalopnik horde. “’Tis some Twitter link,” I muttered, “pinging the...
Sep 10, 2025
The 2022 Trofeo Is the Maserati Ghibli’s Last Hurrah
The 2022 Trofeo Is the Maserati Ghibli’s Last Hurrah
The luxury car market is in a weird place right now. Where V8-powered monsters were once lauded as the best you could get, . And while the sport sedan of old reigned supreme, its crown has been stolen by the burgeoning performance SUV segment. All of that puts cars...
Sep 10, 2025
Copyright 2023-2025 - www.zzdcar.com All Rights Reserved