You are so right. I remember seeing those with the wood on the side in many movies growing up like "What about Bob" and pretty sure in "Harry in the Henderson's " just to name a few. It really was an icon.
Lots of SUVs are really station wagons by the traditional definitions. I saw an ad from 1938 where Suburbans were being advertised as station wagons. It’s just that station wagons are no longer cool, so we have SUVs and crossovers instead. For that matter minivans were also really station wagons. Woodies were also made of wood at some points because there wasn’t enough demand to tool up for metal bodies for that configuration.
@Yule Calma I think lots of station wagons are cool. When I say they’re not, I’m mostly referring to general opinion, especially in the US, although SUVs seem to be increasingly popular elsewhere. When Henry Ford saw the Mercer Raceabout, one of the first cars to drop the floor into the frame, he supposedly said “It will never catch on. People like to ride up high and see over the fences.” That still seems to be true. Low frontal area and center of gravity be dammed.
You failed to mention that a woody in great condition(and I do mean actual specimens made with real wood from the 30's and 40's),are worth plenty of money as collectors items!!!
I have heard that Henry Ford used the wood from shipping crates to build stations wagons so as not to waste the wood he paid for when things were shipped to the factory. Keep up the great work.
Yeah, he made the suppliers make specifically sized crates to ship him their products, reusing the wood for floorboards and such. Leftover wood and sawdust went on to become Kingsford Charcoal briquets.
Missed the chance to mention the Honda Element in surf culture. Although it used grey plastic fenders (and bumpers) it's target audience was those southern California teenagers you mentioned, and also surfing was the setting of the first commercial for the car.
I assumed you were joking, but no, that record actually existed. I'm surprised the record company published a title like that; it must have elicited plenty of grins.
The trend lasted surprisingly long-- considering it began as an alternative cladding material particular to a time. At first a stop-gap, then a recognizable style in its own right.
Funny, I always associate '20s & '30s woodies with surf culture, particularly the overlap between surf and hot rod culture which involved taking what were then 30 or so year old cars and customizing them.
Old German example: DKW F 89 Universal 1951 to 1953 (then replaced by a full-steel body). In Britain the Morris Minor Traveller was built with a partly wooden body from 1952 to 1971!
I had an Auntie that had a moggy estate she had it for ten years , when she sold it and replaced it with a more modern vehicle she said it was the worsted decision she'd made and would have sooner kept the Moggy estate . Estate cars are more practical use them for all sorts of stuff , I have a Volvo estate , it's my do everything wagon . Love it 😍
I bought my VW Westfalia camper bus from an aging surfer dude in San Diego. John had 2 Mercury woodies from the 1950s that were both in showroom condition.
The 1923 Model "T" Depothack is my #1 favorite car. All because my Grandfather had one and would bring his whole family to the car show. Including having his grandchildren ride in it in The Great Circus Parade pre parade. Talk about class.
Nice content! Though the removing of a body to then craft your own is false. It was common to buy a chassis with running gear (without a body) back then.
2/3 of my cars are station wagons. the last one is a small hatch back. the hatch back is a Suzuki Swift Sport. super fun little go cart cor the road which weighs just about nothing and has enough power to easily get up to speed and overtake people on winding roads. my first car and I still have that one is a 1996 Volvo 940 estate. it is probably the most practical car outside of work vans and some pickup trucks. it rides nicely, drives quietly, has a super long and low trunk floor and without folding the rear seats does the trunk have a loading capacity of 1000 liters and if I fold the seats do I have a loading capacity of roughly 2300 liters. it is insane and extremely usefull. my most recent purchase and the one i'm the most proud of is a 1973 Volvo P1800ES which is the shooting brake, also known as a 2 door sports wagon. it is number 5939/8077 to roll off the production line and due to fairly bad rust problems is it super rare to find one that has almost no rust, no weld repairs and no body filler repairs. it is also a low mileage example with 139 800km on the odometer and the interior looks like it was made less than a year ago. this is my dream car and I plan to keep it until I end up 2 meters below ground
steel was in a shortage DURING the war, not after. Mega surplus after. The modern woody we know was made during the war and continued with it for several years afterwards. There was a boom after the war, woodys were more affordable so lived on as an economical choice.
Hey Ed, today for the second time I watched "Tailfin Wars of the Late 1950s, and enjoyed it even more. I was just a 5 year old kid in 1960, but I was all about our beautiful American Cars. Since I was assembled in East Detroit it naturally flows to have parents and family working in the auto industry. My mom's side at Chrysler Corporation dad's at
Sorry for the split. Fat fingers. In any event as I was saying my dad's side of the family was at Ford Motor Company. They somehow knew to avoid GM. I just wanted to say again how much I appreciate your videos and forward comments. I was and still am very attracted to Chrysler's Forward Look, even though some were questionable, but since it was the late 50s, Chrysler appeared to get away with some radical stuff. At one point in your video you ask us to imagine the '61 Chrysler without the huge fins. That really struck home with me because as a kid, I would draw my versions of all those cars without the fins could look like, and I really had fun with it. I started by "de-finning" the "61 Chryslers, would leave the existing low raparound taillights and the rest of the rear design in place, and really liked the end result. In 1962 Chrysler did the same thing except they somehow came up the taillights that rolled off the tops of the rear fenders and angled inward to join the lower rear part of the car. The '62 production taillights are unique, undiscrible designs that housed both the taillights and back up lights in one unit. The design has kinda a human scwinting look that still remains hard to define. Maybe a little sophisticated and yet somehow with an elegant attitude that looks like no other, but at the same time capturing a very distinctive Chrysler look that no other brand could get away with . To this day, I am captivated by them. I find myself attracted to them in much the same way you say it's like looking at pornography. I never ever thought to put it that way, but it fits. Those taillights are kinda nasty looking and I can't look way. So thanks for that thought. Having said all that, there was only one more styling cue that pulled it all together. The canted front headlights. Am I right? I know Chrysler wasn't the only cars that had canted headlights, the '58 Lincolns and '59 full size Buicks did too. But somehow that doesn't help to explain why canted headlights were a thing. The younger generation of Gearheads that never lived through it, will just have to take our word on it and accept it as part of the unexplained. Just like how the 1962 full-size Chrylers have always been one of my top 10 favorite looking cars. And I haven't even mentioned the "Panelesent " lighting of the "Astrodome" instrument cluster. I loved that! In a word, it was mesmerizing, And it doesn't get any better than that, even to this day.
5:09 Not a woodie in sight? Well, what's that parked between the green * white VW Kombi and the red sedan, with the little white VW beetle in centre-front of the shot?
i’ve seen flex’s with wood paneling and i believe they ran up until 2019. chevy hhr’s, pt cruisers and those jeep liberties are some of the few that could come with them in the 2000’s/10’s
1930s & '40s wagons were the work cars of the upper class. Surfers were often scions of these, and Grandma's old car was often available... Social attitudes about cars varied a lot, with regard to every individual car. Woodies were popular in Hawaii, as can be seen in old photos of street scenes. I have a c1940 photo of Kamehameha ave, in Hilo full of woodies, often used as jitney buses, some marked. The Big Island was also home to Sampan Taxis. All the genuine ones I've seen are on 6 cyl. chassis. I have seen photos of 1920s Fords & Chevys, then 4 cyl. cars.
A true SUV (as opposed to the "CUV") is in reality a station wagon on a truck frame. In fact one of the oldest US made SUVs (Chevy "Suburban" 1935-Now) was traditionally marketed as a "wagon" until the term SUV came into vogue. People embraced the term "SUV" because the term "station wagon" (at least in the US..) began to have the "soccer mom" stigma long before the minivan came along and got that "rep". So, Yep! The HYPEST Hip-Hop artists with their Escalades are "frontin'" and "ballin'" in their Station Wagons! P.S. This is not a "dis" I love me some wagons!
I couldn't agree more. A,B,C,D pillars. A rear seat that folds flat, a rear hatch, more than half of America are driving station wagons by a different name.
The Country Squire was Ford's "woodie." 1949 to 1951 Country Squires had steel bodies with wood paneling grafted on the sides. In 1952 the real wood went away and simulated wood took over. In 1955 the panels were made of fiberglass...
Was born in '49 and lucky enough to find a '49 Ford woodie with a flathead v8. Rebuilt the engine but tight times made me sell her before she was all fixed up. Regret it every time I see one. Still learning shit tho- I never knew that "station" wagon referred to a rig to take yer stuff to the train station. That's pretty cool...
Of historic note , after Katherine Hepburn finished making the 1934 movie Bringing up baby with Cary Grant she liked her Ford station so much she bought one and was seen all over Hollywood in it this and in the mountains of fan magazines of the time,other stars. Had to have one and it became a fad in Hollywood. And what's popular with stars becomes popular everywhere else and soon they were popping up in driveways all over America.
@@eugenegilleno9344 A Morris "Woodie" was used in the TV series *Heartbeat* made in the 1980s and 1990s but set in the 1960s. The car was driven by Derek Fowlds in his role as "Blaketon" in that series.
In Encinitas California there is an Annual Roundup of Woodies. Every Variety. Hey! Sometime maybe do a video on the Origins of Model lines names. Cabriolet was the name of a style of Coach. Landau. "Roadster" was what a buckboard was called. There was even a Studebaker "Winnebago" wagon. Point out how a Manufacturer would often provide a engine and chassis and the buyer could specify the COACH BUILDER
It is fascinating to me that fake wood on the outside of cars was ever a thing. My first car was a 1987 Datsun Sentra hatch with wood paneling and a hole in the floor. It looked bad....but not because it was old!
"infotainment" systems are the worst design decisions. I'd rather have "Plastiwood" in (or ON) my car than a godammed iPad Vidjagame that I have to spend an hour figuring out before I can get the heater/radio - or any thing ELSE to work.
I prefer plastic wood over real wood inside the car, I've got cars with real wood interior and they look like crap after 30 years (delaminating, swelling, peeling ect.), the ones with fake wood still look good and maybe just need to be re-glued
Stationwagon had some unique ways like a conversion of sedan which was the case of the Nissan Stagea which officially was adapted from the famous Nissan Skyline series particularly the R34 generation as was classified as a WGC34 & this led to r34 front end swap and the engine was the RB25.
I love your videos, but where do you get this information? Station wagons started as HORSE DRAWN WAGONS, and woodies were in use by the general public by the 'teens. Chassis' without bodies were sold by almost everyone. Publishing assumptions as fact is dangerous.
I like the wood simulation concept as it evolked the early western's wagon trains. A family theme car. Certain newer models the wood side and rear panels would be like trying to tie together a sheman tank body with simulated wood side panel accents that Grossly be an unpopualr styling mistake.
US kids in the fifties jut bought woody Model A Fords from the thirties for 20 dollars - cars within their budgets - so prewar woodies had a second life.
I have a Ford Flex great van. That's what it's called on the title. I never knew what to call it car truck station wagon ? I didn't know the lines in the doors was a nod to the old woody thanks for the info . Maybe that's why I want to do vinyl wrap haha
Push it back to the 50's. Woodies are an off shoot of So Cal hot rod culture. The guys who would rather hang on the beach needed a ride as well as those who were into street racing. Similar to low rider culture.
Subj: Omision!. Dear Mr. Ed You didn't mention oldest known model! Fred Flinstone's car. Not only that, his daughter and her boyfrend were surf fans. I used to watch their show, so have this from the horse mouth. a question: "in the woodies" isn't it used in the UK to say in middle of nowhere, a distant place?
How come the non-mental parts of woodies were never painted? The contrast of the raw wood cab with the painted metal front is so strong that it looks jarring, why not paint the wood to match the metal? Even much older cars that utilized wood in their exterior were fully painted.
Oh my fucking god I just realized something! Back when Pixar Cars came out, some of thr characters from their previous hit Toy Story got turned into cars (partially as a joke, but mostly for toys and sweet sweet profit). Now what's the subject of this video? Woodies. What is the name of the protagonist of Toy Story? Woody. Guess who the fuck was turned into a Woodie when made into a toy car!?
I'm surprised you did not even mentioned the Grand Wagoner, what an Icon!
Granted the Grand Wagoner is more of a outdoors man vehicle
Icon? What about the Wagon Queen Family Truckster?!
that's an SUV
You are so right. I remember seeing those with the wood on the side in many movies growing up like "What about Bob" and pretty sure in "Harry in the Henderson's " just to name a few. It really was an icon.
He measures in metric so it's really no great surprise.
Bye the way. In the 2000s the Chrysler PT cruiser had a woody accessory package you could get. 🙂
Even earlier than that.... Guess between 96 and 98 Chrysler came up with that pt cruiser sided on fake wood
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@@bernardschmitt6389 the text corrector...didn't even see that..tks
The woodie package was available on pt cruisers from 2003-2004
Everybody is trying to forget that mistake 😐
Lots of SUVs are really station wagons by the traditional definitions. I saw an ad from 1938 where Suburbans were being advertised as station wagons. It’s just that station wagons are no longer cool, so we have SUVs and crossovers instead. For that matter minivans were also really station wagons. Woodies were also made of wood at some points because there wasn’t enough demand to tool up for metal bodies for that configuration.
@Yule Calma I think lots of station wagons are cool. When I say they’re not, I’m mostly referring to general opinion, especially in the US, although SUVs seem to be increasingly popular elsewhere. When Henry Ford saw the Mercer Raceabout, one of the first cars to drop the floor into the frame, he supposedly said “It will never catch on. People like to ride up high and see over the fences.” That still seems to be true. Low frontal area and center of gravity be dammed.
You failed to mention that a woody in great condition(and I do mean actual specimens made with real wood from the 30's and 40's),are worth plenty of money as collectors items!!!
Chrysler's PT Cruiser came with a "Woodie" option for almost its entire run.
This is such and underrated, amazing channel
That picture of the beach in 5:06 thats San-O my local surf spot also known as old mans
Yessir. Dog patch
I have heard that Henry Ford used the wood from shipping crates to build stations wagons so as not to waste the wood he paid for when things were shipped to the factory. Keep up the great work.
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Yeah, he made the suppliers make specifically sized crates to ship him their products, reusing the wood for floorboards and such. Leftover wood and sawdust went on to become Kingsford Charcoal briquets.
@@stephendevery4220Funny how Kingsford ends with ford.......
I believe that started out as early as the Model T, when those crates were used as the floorboards.
Missed the chance to mention the Honda Element in surf culture. Although it used grey plastic fenders (and bumpers) it's target audience was those southern California teenagers you mentioned, and also surfing was the setting of the first commercial for the car.
Keebler Elves also used it in funeral processions.
The cut between ep 1 and ep 2 (if you’re watching the playlist) is super smooth.
The most civilised of them all was the Morris Traveller, the motoring equivalent of a half timbered cottage.
And it was probably the last real woodie - in production from 1953-1971
@5:10 their is a woody in the picture :D next to the red Corvair.
I started binging this channel and now I can't stop D:
This channel is a gem
Ikr! So underrated hes gonna blow up one day
Don't forget the tongue in cheek song by The Angels -"You Can't Take My Boyfriend's Woody"!!!
How about the P.T. Cruiser fake woody ?.
I assumed you were joking, but no, that record actually existed. I'm surprised the record company published a title like that; it must have elicited plenty of grins.
The Angels? Are they the Australian band that were renamed "Angel City" or the ones that always wore white garments?
I air brushed wood grain on my 2007Subaru Forester.
LL Bean edition. Looks fantastic.
The trend lasted surprisingly long-- considering it began as an alternative cladding material particular to a time. At first a stop-gap, then a recognizable style in its own right.
My friends laughed at me when I put Dundreary Regina in my garage in gta 5, 😭 I love it
I think it’s based off a Oldsmobile custom cruiser
That thing is a beauty!
That last surfer girl gave me a woodie.
😍😉☺️
Funny, I always associate '20s & '30s woodies with surf culture, particularly the overlap between surf and hot rod culture which involved taking what were then 30 or so year old cars and customizing them.
Old German example: DKW F 89 Universal 1951 to 1953 (then replaced by a full-steel body).
In Britain the Morris Minor Traveller was built with a partly wooden body from 1952 to 1971!
It’s structural, too. Any rot will fail the MOT.
I had an Auntie that had a moggy estate she had it for ten years , when she sold it and replaced it with a more modern vehicle she said it was the worsted decision she'd made and would have sooner kept the Moggy estate . Estate cars are more practical use them for all sorts of stuff , I have a Volvo estate , it's my do everything wagon . Love it 😍
Moskvitch 400-422 from USSR as well.
even the Peugeot 402 Canadienne
Also the Mini of the day.
I enjoyed your content, Master Ed! More of these please.
Very very nice informative Video... congrats once again
Popular Mechanics sold a planset to build a Woodie wagon onto the body of a VW Beetle, those plans are still around today.
Ford obtained the wood for it's Woodie wagons from the Traverse City area of Michigan
I didn't understand the reason for the hideous trend of the fake wooden trim in american cars from the 80s, but now I do thanks to you. Great video!
Thank you! I never understood why the big American cars of the '70s had fake wood ornaments.
Thanks for the video and witty banter.
That beach is San Onofre! Legendary spot
Great job Ed!
I bought my VW Westfalia camper bus from an aging surfer dude in San Diego.
John had 2 Mercury woodies from the 1950s that were both in showroom condition.
The 1923 Model "T" Depothack is my #1 favorite car. All because my Grandfather had one and would bring his whole family to the car show. Including having his grandchildren ride in it in The Great Circus Parade pre parade. Talk about class.
Nice content! Though the removing of a body to then craft your own is false. It was common to buy a chassis with running gear (without a body) back then.
Ford still has this option as a commercial chassis..
My woody originated when my father and my mother loved each other very much... And his Woody took a road trip down her Sequoia tunnel.
Old and barklike?
@@wintersbattleofbands1144 actually rough and sticky
I love Willys station wagon.Woody style!!! WOW!!
2/3 of my cars are station wagons. the last one is a small hatch back.
the hatch back is a Suzuki Swift Sport. super fun little go cart cor the road which weighs just about nothing and has enough power to easily get up to speed and overtake people on winding roads.
my first car and I still have that one is a 1996 Volvo 940 estate. it is probably the most practical car outside of work vans and some pickup trucks. it rides nicely, drives quietly, has a super long and low trunk floor and without folding the rear seats does the trunk have a loading capacity of 1000 liters and if I fold the seats do I have a loading capacity of roughly 2300 liters. it is insane and extremely usefull.
my most recent purchase and the one i'm the most proud of is a 1973 Volvo P1800ES which is the shooting brake, also known as a 2 door sports wagon. it is number 5939/8077 to roll off the production line and due to fairly bad rust problems is it super rare to find one that has almost no rust, no weld repairs and no body filler repairs. it is also a low mileage example with 139 800km on the odometer and the interior looks like it was made less than a year ago. this is my dream car and I plan to keep it until I end up 2 meters below ground
steel was in a shortage DURING the war, not after. Mega surplus after. The modern woody we know was made during the war and continued with it for several years afterwards. There was a boom after the war, woodys were more affordable so lived on as an economical choice.
so much vinyl was murdered in the name of faux wood trim on wagons and vans, sadly now all gone. Bring back wooden bodies, if you can afford it. LOL
Hey Ed, today for the second time I watched "Tailfin Wars of the Late 1950s, and enjoyed it even more. I was just a 5 year old kid in 1960, but I was all about our beautiful American Cars. Since I was assembled in East Detroit it naturally flows to have parents and family working in the auto industry. My mom's side at Chrysler Corporation dad's at
Sorry for the split. Fat fingers. In any event as I was saying my dad's side of the family was at Ford Motor Company. They somehow knew to avoid GM. I just wanted to say again how much I appreciate your videos and forward comments. I was and still am very attracted to Chrysler's Forward Look, even though some were questionable, but since it was the late 50s, Chrysler appeared to get away with some radical stuff. At one point in your video you ask us to imagine the '61 Chrysler without the huge fins. That really struck home with me because as a kid, I would draw my versions of all those cars without the fins could look like, and I really had fun with it. I started by "de-finning" the "61 Chryslers, would leave the existing low raparound taillights and the rest of the rear design in place, and really liked the end result. In 1962 Chrysler did the same thing except they somehow came up the taillights that rolled off the tops of the rear fenders and angled inward to join the lower rear part of the car. The '62 production taillights are unique, undiscrible designs that housed both the taillights and back up lights in one unit. The design has kinda a human scwinting look that still remains hard to define. Maybe a little sophisticated and yet somehow with an elegant attitude that looks like no other, but at the same time capturing a very distinctive Chrysler look that no other brand could get away with . To this day, I am captivated by them. I find myself attracted to them in much the same way you say it's like looking at pornography. I never ever thought to put it that way, but it fits. Those taillights are kinda nasty looking and I can't look way. So thanks for that thought. Having said all that, there was only one more styling cue that pulled it all together. The canted front headlights. Am I right? I know Chrysler wasn't the only cars that had canted headlights, the '58 Lincolns and '59 full size Buicks did too. But somehow that doesn't help to explain why canted headlights were a thing. The younger generation of Gearheads that never lived through it, will just have to take our word on it and accept it as part of the unexplained. Just like how the 1962 full-size Chrylers have always been one of my top 10 favorite looking cars. And I haven't even mentioned the "Panelesent " lighting of the "Astrodome" instrument cluster. I loved that! In a word, it was mesmerizing, And it doesn't get any better than that, even to this day.
I grabbed a tea like you told me to, video was that much nicer with a snack. Thanks!
So Cool!!
still love the Ford Flex, such a timeless design
Excelente video!!💪🇦🇷🇺🇸👍
@4:57 That's "Old Man's" at San Onofre State Beach and it looks exactly the same today. You'll even see lots of classic cars there on any given day.
Love the stuff you do
5:09 Not a woodie in sight? Well, what's that parked between the green * white VW Kombi and the red sedan, with the little white VW beetle in centre-front of the shot?
A car that ain't a woodie's what's there. The real woodie was between that red Corvair (I think it's a Chevy Corvair?) and that VW T2 Bus.
Alright, I misread yer comment. My mistake. I screwed up, sorry for that.
i’ve seen flex’s with wood paneling and i believe they ran up until 2019. chevy hhr’s, pt cruisers and those jeep liberties are some of the few that could come with them in the 2000’s/10’s
Hot wheels hahahahah😂
Delivered groceries in a Model A woodie, about 1947.
I've got a Limited Edition Hot Wheels 2002 S10 Sport..4.3 V6 19 ×9 Inch Retro IROCZ Chrome Wheels..Automatic ..PS..PB..Sun Roof..PW..
Love the videos but how did you not include the pt cruiser woody?!
1930s & '40s wagons were the work cars of the upper class. Surfers were often scions of these, and Grandma's old car was often available... Social attitudes about cars varied a lot, with regard to every individual car. Woodies were popular in Hawaii, as can be seen in old photos of street scenes. I have a c1940 photo of Kamehameha ave, in Hilo full of woodies, often used as jitney buses, some marked. The Big Island was also home to Sampan Taxis. All the genuine ones I've seen are on 6 cyl. chassis. I have seen photos of 1920s Fords & Chevys, then 4 cyl. cars.
The Rolls Royce Boat Tail might signal a woodie comeback
Nice content !!
A true SUV (as opposed to the "CUV") is in reality a station wagon on a truck frame. In fact one of the oldest US made SUVs (Chevy "Suburban" 1935-Now) was traditionally marketed as a "wagon" until the term SUV came into vogue. People embraced the term "SUV" because the term "station wagon" (at least in the US..) began to have the "soccer mom" stigma long before the minivan came along and got that "rep". So, Yep! The HYPEST Hip-Hop artists with their Escalades are "frontin'" and "ballin'" in their Station Wagons! P.S. This is not a "dis" I love me some wagons!
I couldn't agree more. A,B,C,D pillars. A rear seat that folds flat, a rear hatch, more than half of America are driving station wagons by a different name.
I think Movies like National Lampoon's Vacation would have been a major nail in the coffin to Station wagons. That and the rise of the mini van.
full size vans with passenger seats were referred to as wagons until fairly recently as well
@@andrewthacker1389 True.
great channel that i just discovered 👍
What I liked about your channel was that you never got political. You always told stories, facts and history. Why did you have to get political now?
Underrated channel
LOL "FAKE" with a foto of D. J. Drumpf has me rolling. Just the facts, ma'am.
FJB.
The Country Squire was Ford's "woodie." 1949 to 1951 Country Squires had steel bodies with wood paneling grafted on the sides. In 1952 the real wood went away and simulated wood took over. In 1955 the panels were made of fiberglass...
Was born in '49 and lucky enough to find a '49 Ford woodie with a flathead v8. Rebuilt the engine but tight times made me sell her before she was all fixed up. Regret it every time I see one. Still learning shit tho- I never knew that "station" wagon referred to a rig to take yer stuff to the train station. That's pretty cool...
Of historic note , after Katherine Hepburn finished making the 1934 movie Bringing up baby with Cary Grant she liked her Ford station so much she bought one and was seen all over Hollywood in it this and in the mountains of fan magazines of the time,other stars. Had to have one and it became a fad in Hollywood. And what's popular with stars becomes popular everywhere else and soon they were popping up in driveways all over America.
Informative! Humorous! Well done!!
In Britain the Morris station wagons and panel vans had wood finish through the 1940s and 1950s.
The wood is part of the vehicles structural construction in the Moggie from the ‘50’s to the ‘70’s. No woodies were produced in the ‘40’s.
@@eugenegilleno9344 A Morris "Woodie" was used in the TV series *Heartbeat* made in the 1980s and 1990s but set in the 1960s. The car was driven by Derek Fowlds in his role as "Blaketon" in that series.
In Encinitas California there is an Annual Roundup of Woodies. Every Variety.
Hey! Sometime maybe do a video on the Origins of Model lines names.
Cabriolet was the name of a style of Coach. Landau. "Roadster" was what a buckboard was called. There was even a Studebaker "Winnebago" wagon.
Point out how a Manufacturer would often provide a engine and chassis and the buyer could specify the
COACH BUILDER
He, you missed an English icon: the Morris Minor Traveller, built from 1953 until march 1970!
Lincoln Blackwood is one of the last Woodies production cars
Great call! Forgot about that one
Considered the first SUV, the Jeep Wagoneers started in1963 and ended in 1991 with the Grand Wagoneer, most had vinyl wood decals!
It is fascinating to me that fake wood on the outside of cars was ever a thing. My first car was a 1987 Datsun Sentra hatch with wood paneling and a hole in the floor. It looked bad....but not because it was old!
Plastic wood has to be one of the worst design decisions ever!
Inside or outside a car
"infotainment" systems are the worst design decisions. I'd rather have "Plastiwood" in (or ON) my car than a godammed iPad Vidjagame that I have to spend an hour figuring out before I can get the heater/radio - or any thing ELSE to work.
@@jamesslick4790
Don't get me started on cup holders!
I prefer plastic wood over real wood inside the car, I've got cars with real wood interior and they look like crap after 30 years (delaminating, swelling, peeling ect.), the ones with fake wood still look good and maybe just need to be re-glued
@Yule Calma Real wood should still look fine after 10 years, i was more referring to old Mercs from the 80s when it starts to warp and split apart.
The origin of my woodie is a morning wake-up call
I love your channel man, so gnarley.
Stationwagon had some unique ways like a conversion of sedan which was the case of the Nissan Stagea which officially was adapted from the famous Nissan Skyline series particularly the R34 generation as was classified as a WGC34 & this led to r34 front end swap and the engine was the RB25.
I love your videos, but where do you get this information? Station wagons started as HORSE DRAWN WAGONS, and woodies were in use by the general public by the 'teens. Chassis' without bodies were sold by almost everyone. Publishing assumptions as fact is dangerous.
It's "Hard" to remember the origin of my first "woodie"😂
the Ancestor of SUV based from wheels
And remember they then came out with Tin woodies. Wagons that looked like woodies but were made of sheet metal.
I like the wood simulation concept as it evolked the early western's wagon trains. A family theme car.
Certain newer models the wood side and rear panels would be like trying to tie together a sheman tank body with simulated wood side panel accents that Grossly be an unpopualr styling mistake.
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US kids in the fifties jut bought woody Model A Fords from the thirties for 20 dollars - cars within their budgets - so prewar woodies had a second life.
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5:04 lower left corner, tan hood wagon between the VW bus and the Corvair....woodie!
No mention of the Morris Traveller?
rot, the wood version of rust
There was also the Lincoln Blackwood. The most ridiculous truck of the 2000s
How about those Mini Cooper Clubman with wood bars? Is that decoration or functional?
I have a Ford Flex great van. That's what it's called on the title.
I never knew what to call it car truck station wagon ?
I didn't know the lines in the doors was a nod to the old woody thanks for the info .
Maybe that's why I want to do vinyl wrap haha
Does anyone else remember seeing the Rolls Royce "woody"Neil Young had made in the '70's.
Oh a "Woodie" is a station wagon?.... huh just learnt something new.
Push it back to the 50's. Woodies are an off shoot of So Cal hot rod culture. The guys who would rather hang on the beach needed a ride as well as those who were into street racing. Similar to low rider culture.
There was one woody in the photo! Almost dead center in the picture.
Subj: Omision!.
Dear Mr. Ed
You didn't mention oldest known model! Fred Flinstone's car.
Not only that, his daughter and her boyfrend were surf fans.
I used to watch their show, so have this from the horse mouth.
a question: "in the woodies" isn't it used in the UK to say in middle of nowhere, a distant place?
Oh, the irony that there's a woodie in the picture at 5:10.
Trees are made of wood, houses are made of timber.
6:55 not to mention that they had fun with that -station wagon- *Minivan* by giving it a wood treatment
That old woodie isn’t a 50’s car. It’s more like a 1936 Woodie wagon.
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5:02 There is one woodie next to the VW microbus in the bottom left of the screen.
How come the non-mental parts of woodies were never painted? The contrast of the raw wood cab with the painted metal front is so strong that it looks jarring, why not paint the wood to match the metal? Even much older cars that utilized wood in their exterior were fully painted.
Oh my fucking god I just realized something! Back when Pixar Cars came out, some of thr characters from their previous hit Toy Story got turned into cars (partially as a joke, but mostly for toys and sweet sweet profit). Now what's the subject of this video? Woodies. What is the name of the protagonist of Toy Story? Woody. Guess who the fuck was turned into a Woodie when made into a toy car!?
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I think the Woody has been around since the beginning of man
I’m with Jimmy ( Jimmy Hendrix) “ I never want to hear surf music again.” .