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THE POWER (WAGON) OF FRIENDSHIP

The 1973 Dodge Power Wagon that David Havard bought just a few years ago might as well have been in his family since it was new.

“I wanted one for a lot of years,” explained the truck’s first owner, Frank McCabe of Larksville, Pa. “I wanted a pickup truck and I wanted four-wheel drive and I shopped around for about a year. Finally, I found a really good price in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, Lewis Brothers ...

“It was a small Texaco gas station with a showroom that had one car in it. The guy had to order it and I told him what I wanted. He was something like $1,000 cheaper than the five or six other dealers I was at. I waited seven months for it to come in. When you’re working for $2 an hour,

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