Dodge Power Wagon, Maine & Philip Booth

When old cars get retired, they go to Maine.

Thick as crows in backlots off the blacktop,

East of Bucksport, down the washboard

from Penobscot to Castine,

they graze behind frame barns: a Ford

turned tractor, Hudsons chopped to half-ton

trucks, and Chevy panels, jacked up,

tireless, geared to saw a cord of wood...

---from "Maine" by Philip Booth

Thanks to Matt Dallett for the Philip Booth lines. We caught the Power Wagon--probably ex-military or ex- Maine Forestry Service-- on a day the pond was frozen and good for skating. We've posted plenty of Power Wagons, like this beauty in Claremont NH. And a '73 Power Wagon is maybe our favorite truck in Cambridge MA.