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Bankers Trust/BTC Wealth Management Group Presents... The Art & Design of The Woodies Class By Gerald L. Manning, Class Chair Noted Woody author David Fetherston prefers the spelling “Woodys” in the title of his book, while the National Woodie Club uses the spelling “Woodie”. Whichever way you want to spell it, and both are used correctly, vehicles with wood bodies possess style and character absent in today's robotically built steel bodies. Once, almost every form of transportation was made of wood: carriages, boats, chariots, wagons, trains, even airplanes. Today, the Morgan sports car is one of the few that still uses a wood body substructure in its assembly. The aesthetically wood-sided wagons and convertibles presented in this class all represent a design evolution of their wooden predecessors. In their heyday, woodies (we will use the National Woodie Club spelling) were often the most expensive cars offered by a manufacturer, and many tallied impressive sales figures. Woodies have always satisfied the need for stylish transport of people and parcels. The earliest woodie designs were utilitarian adaptations of the horse-drawn carriage and canopied express trucks. During the thirties and forties, fashionable American woodie station wagons, such as those presented in this class, were placed into service by lodges, inns and country clubs. They were frequently used to bring guests from the train depot and were often called “depot hacks”. At about the same time, wealthy land-owners with country estates adopted woodies such as Packards, Rolls-Royces and Buicks for suburban transportation. In the early forties Chrysler arrived on the market with a new Town and Country series that was a departure from the woodie station wagon concept. The first generation design of the Town and Country was referred to as the “barrel backed” sedan. Following the war Chrysler designed the second generation Town and Country (recently accepted as a “Full Classic” by the prestigious Classic Car Club of America) such as the convertible featured in this class. The second generation Town and Country included both convertibles and sedans. Chrysler’s successful design of the Town and Country woodie prompted Ford, Nash, and Chevrolet to also design woodie convertibles. 26 After the war, the middle class found mass-produced woodie wagons perfect for family travels. Unfortunately, the wagon's most prominent feature, its wood body, was also its greatest drawback. Wood bodies required maintenance - not a problem for the wealthy with household staff. But as a 'do-it-yourself' chore, it was frequently neglected. Manufacturers responded by using less wood and more steel. Woodies were produced in the greatest numbers before the end of the 1950s, before safety regulations would effectively have made them obsolete. In 1950, Plymouth discontinued their woodie station wagon. Buick manufactured its last woodie in 1953. By 1955, only Ford and Mercury offered a vestigial woodie, evoking real wood with other materials including steel, plastics and vinyl imitations. Ford offered its wood models as the Country Squire trim level in numerous model ranges from the forties to the nineties. In Britain in 1960, the British Motor Corporation offered the Morris Mini Minor Traveller and Austin Seven Countryman as woodie wagons, such as the 1964 presented in this class, Both versions were identical, with wood structural components and painted aluminum infill panels. These models, now more simply known as the “Mini”, represent the last true mass-produced woodie. Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (1906-1988) a Greek-British designer, is credited with the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, originally launched in 1959, In 1999 a jury of 126 experts from 32 countries working with the Global Automotive Elections Foundation voted the Mini the second most influential car of the 20th century, behind the Ford Model T. By the late forties and early fifties the popularity of woodies for personal transportation in the United States had peaked, and used car dealers had plenty of cheap, poorly maintained wood-clad cars. Surfers found these bargains perfect for hauling their longboards in search of the perfect wave. What was a grunge car used by surfers to cart their boards to the beach has today become a popular collector item. If you hold on to some things long enough, they may go up in value and price, and nowhere is that more true than with woodies, whose price has soared over the past 15 to 20 years. Today a high quality woodie sells for $100,000-$200,000. The combo of woods — wooden surfboards and woodies— has created a craze and a culture for those who cherish these classics and the dream that goes with them.
WD 01 1946 Chrysler Town & Country Convertible Coupe Jack and Penny Boyle Shawnee, Kansas WD 02 1946 Ford Station Wagon George and Jean Archer Des Moines, Iowa WD 03 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon 79A James and Lillian Lonergan Cedar Falls, Iowa WD 04 1949 Buick Super Estate Wagon Dean and Judy Lauterbach Newton, Iowa 27 WD 05 1949 Buick 59 Super Wagon Patrick and Mary Brooks Ames, Iowa 1997 Peking to Paris Challenge 2000 Around the World in 80 Days WD 06 1949 Packard Custom Eight Wagon Mark and Gloria Desch Stillwater, Minnesota WD 07 1951 Ford Station Wagon George and Jean Archer Des Moines, Iowa WD 08 1964 Austin Mini Countryman Wagon Lyle and Sharon Kreps Johnston, Iowa
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