The sun is shining, the temperatures are climbing past “nice” and into “sweat lodge” territory, the flowers are out, and so is the sunscreen. So what the hell are we doing showing a plow truck? Easy: winter will be here before you know it, and if you live in an area that gets more than just a light dusting of snowfall, you know the joys of shoveling tons of the fluffy white stuff gets old, quickly. Oh, sure, you can go get a snowblower if you really want to, but then you lose out on a money-making opportunity and the ability to be the guy on your block with a plow truck…especially one as awesome as this 1978 Dodge W150 Sno-Commander.
Is it safe? In a sea of white, that Citrus Poly green will stand out like a beacon. The 360ci small-block has enough grunt to get you through, and Dodge trucks of the pre-Ram era have stout four-wheel-drive systems. That plow is a Meyers system, and it’s a factory setup…take note of the controls properly set in the dash of that mint and oh-so-1970s interior.
Would we change anything? Difficult to say…this truck checks every last one of my boxes except two: I’m not a fan of stepsides and I’m not digging the stock steel wheels and dog dishes on this one. I could live with the bed, but I’d get the NOS replacement tailgate painted to match the original that comes with the truck, and I think I’d have to store the stock wheels and dig up a set of the white wagon-spoke wheels that Dodge was using on just about every four-wheel drive in the late 1970s. That would nail the look perfectly.
eBay Link: 1978 Dodge W150 Power Wagon with Sno-Commander Package
I had a ’79 sno-commander about 16 years ago. By the time it got to me it was mostly rotted away. That truck there is way too nice to put to work now. Those Dodges love to rust, especially here in snow country. How did that one survive all these years?