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Knot Rods: charming Carved Classics
We recently had the pleasure of being introduced to Dick and Susie Arnold, creators of the charming Knot Rods wooden vehicles. Carved wooden cars have been children’s playthings for more than a...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1942 Pontiac Chieftain woodie
Most military vehicles have some battlefield use, but the Army needed basic transportation too, and this 1942 Pontiac Chieftain woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com served that purpose during...
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SIA Flashback – High-Fashion Hauler: 1948 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon
The Roadmaster Estate Wagon has remained one of Buick’s more beloved post-war models, so it was interesting to read Arch Brown’s account of post-war Buicks in general and the Estate Wagon in...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Buick Super Estate Wagon
We suppose it’s only appropriate that this 1950 Buick Super Estate Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com sports that loaded luggage rack and those travel decals in the rear windows – after all, according to...
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SIA Flashback – Hollywoodie! 1949 Cadillac Seventy-Five
It’s always hard to swallow the stories that get told about coachbuilt Cadillacs; wagons and woodies seemed to be favorites of external coachbuilders during the 1940s and 1950s, and so many of the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1985 AMC Eagle
Aside from the Reagan inaugural Eagles, this 1985 AMC Eagle for sale on Hemmings.com may very well have had the most high-profile original owner of any Eagle. Of course, that and a buck fifty will buy...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1941 Pontiac Custom Torpedo woodie station wagon
It may have the six-cylinder rather than the eight-cylinder engine and the standard trim rather than Deluxe, but we’re guessing that those factors won’t dissuade anybody seriously looking at this 1941...
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Four-Links – Woodie meet, Lennon’s Mini, rock star cars, Mercedes desk
* We don’t know why we didn’t come across this until now, seven months after the fact, but Dave’s report on the 2012 Wavecrest Woodie Meet is worth a read if you’re at all into termite townhouses. *...
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“Wagonmasters” documentary to accompany station wagon exhibit
Photo by Jeff Koch. Wagonmasters, the documentary on station wagons that has been making the rounds for the last year or so, will soon be released on DVD, but not before a few more public screenings,...
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Corvettes and bubbletop Bel Air clone draw top dollar at Carlisle
The Auctions America Spring Carlisle top seller, a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette. All images courtesy Auctions America. Last weekend’s Auctions America event at the Carlisle Fairgrounds offered up an...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Ford LTD Country Squire
Green vinyl upholstery on the bench seat? Check. CB radio? Check. A virtual forest of woodgrain vinyl? Check. Three-way tailgate, woodgrain vinyl rear air deflector, and dual facing rear seats? Check,...
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Trio of Town & Country models to be offered at auction
1941 Chrysler Town & Country Barrel Back wagon. All photos courtesy Dragone Auctions. Though Chrysler built far more first-generation Town & Country sedans, convertibles and two-door hardtops...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Mercury woodie station wagon
This 1950 Mercury woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com has certainly seen better days and will need a boatload of work before it’s even whole again, let alone roadworthy or showworthy....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Chrysler Town & Country Newport
Somewhere between fully restored and all-original is the sympathetic restoration, usually implemented to preserve as much of a car’s originality as possible, while preventing it from damage and...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1933 Ford pickup
Do you pine for a simple pickup truck, one rooted in tradition? While the Opel four-cylinder in this 1933 Ford pickup for sale on Hemmings.com might not be much of a stump-puller, the truck appears to...
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Mercury woodie wagon sells for $135,000
Mercury photos by Peter McLaughlin, courtesy RM Auctions. It apparently didn’t take much for the previous owner of the 1952 Mercury Custom eight-passenger woodie station wagon that sold at this past...
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Open Diff – What are your automotive pet peeves?
I’m rather disappointed. After my post on the 1952 Mercury woodie wagon that sold at the recent RM St. John’s auction, I fully expected commenter Get It Right to weigh in – as he/she does every time...
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Four-Links – Mister Softee’s civil defense role, why collector cars are...
* All this time we thought Mister Softees, the ubiquitous-during-summer neighborhood ice cream trucks, were placed on this earth to combat just the summer swelter, but as Daryl at Throwin’ Wrenches...
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Chrysler Town & Country K-car sells for $13,750 at Auburn
A 1983 Chrysler Town & Country Mark Cross edition, sold at $13,750. Images courtesy of Auctions America. While it’s hard to discount the Chrysler K-cars’ historical significance (they did, more or...
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Jaguar E-type coupe takes Art and Design Award at Salisbury Concours
George and Elaine Pfalzgraf’s 1966 Jaguar E-type Coupe. Photos courtesy Salisbury Concours d’Elegance. At most concours d’elegance events, the best in show award typically goes to a prewar automobile...
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Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman to cross the block in Hershey
1947 Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. Chrysler’s postwar Town & Country convertibles may be the best-known woodie drop-tops, but they weren’t the only...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Plymouth Sport Satellite station wagon
Atop Plymouth’s station wagon offerings for the 1969 model year was the Sport Satellite, which came complete with faux wood paneling adorning the body, additional chrome trim on B-pillar and wheel...
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E.T Gregorie explains the Ford Sportsman’s origins
The beach buggy that gave rise to the Ford Sportsman woodie convertible. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company Media Archives. As noted in our recent story on the Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman that sold at...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Packard Eight station sedan
How long should a car remain original? Yes, unrestored and untouched cars are all the rage right now, but everything decays eventually, despite the best efforts of preservationists. So with that in...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Ford Custom DeLuxe Country Squire
Equipped with the original flathead Ford V-8 and the optional two-speed Ford-O-Matic transmission, the current owner of this 1951 Ford Custom DeLuxe Country Squire for sale on Hemmings.com describes...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Ford Mustang
It’s probably a given that if there’s anything anybody has ever done to a vehicle, somebody sometime somewhere has done it to a Mustang. Take, for instance, this 1967 Ford Mustang coupe for sale on...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1931 Ford Model A station wagon
There’s something timeless about early woodie wagons, perhaps because they represent a time when craftsmen, not robots, built cars. Their upkeep requires a bit more commitment (and a bit more elbow...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Chrysler Newport Town & Country
Chrysler’s wood-trimmed Town & Country models remain popular among collectors, and their relative rarity means that prices for finished cars remain high. This 1950 Chrysler Newport Town &...
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Colorado collector parting with 25 years of memories
Terry Johnson with his 1933 Packard 12 Coupe Roadster. All photos courtesy Terry Johnson. Over the last quarter century, Terry Johnson has amassed an admirable collection of cars. Unlike many in the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1940 Plymouth Deluxe woodie
From the photos, description, and video accompanying this 1940 Plymouth Deluxe woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com, it appears nothing – not the wood, nor the rest of the body, nor anything...
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Willenhall Willys woodie wagon winds its way to Weybridge
Photos courtesy Bonhams. In the postwar years, surplus Jeeps typically found their ways to farms, ranches and undeveloped lands, tasked with taming treacherous terrain. Not too many made it to the...
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Body by Ionia: Woodies, wagons, and a concept car among Mitchell Car Museum...
Photos courtesy Sheridan Auctions. When Bill Mitchell scoured the country in the early 1990s to collect examples of every car his father, Don, had a hand in, he had a sizable task ahead of him. After...
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Oldsmobile Super 88 Fiesta sells for $77,000 at station wagon-centric auction
Photos courtesy Sheridan Auction Services. While a one-off fiberglass-bodied Dodge concept car took center stage at last week’s Mitchell Car Museum liquidation sale, the core of the auction was made...
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D.O.D.G.E. – Detroit’s Old Diehards Go Everywhere
1937 Dodge Westchester owned by Chris Lawrence of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Photo courtesy Chris Lawrence. November’s issue of Hemmings Classic Car (#122) celebrates the 100th anniversary of one of...
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SIA Flashback – Fords on the Green
Fifteen-year-old show coverage? Sure, why not, especially when it’s Richard Lentinello’s look (in SIA #199, February 2004) at the 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – specifically of the special...
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Amelia Island Photo Album: 1942 Chrysler Town and Country Station Wagon
Photos by the author. The Larger family from Westerville, Ohio, brought their very distinctive barrel-back woodie wagon to take part in the special Chrysler Town and Country class. Produced in late...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1932 Ford Model B woodie
It’s not hard to see how this 1932 Ford Model B woodie wagon for sale on Hemmings.com remained unrestored all these years: That wood looks to be in great shape and at the same time has that aged and...
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One-off Martin Stationette to make appearance at Keeneland Concours
Photo by dave_7. You can’t fault James Martin for trying. Over the course of four decades, he made no fewer than four attempts to build cars and market his automobile inventions, each successively...
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From the Archives – 1937 Ford “woodie” wagon
Wagons had been slowly picking up momentum since their inception, and 1937 marked the first year Ford devoted over 1-percent of its production to the station wagon body. Not surprisingly, 1937 was...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1949 International KB-1
Given that it already runs and drives and has had its seats reupholstered, it sounds like all this 1949 International KB-1 woodie wagon for sale on Hemmings.com needs is a gas tank, then it’ll be...
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One-off Studebaker woodie wagon, once left to rot, takes concours award
Photo courtesy Lake Bluff Concours d’Elegance. Rattlesnakes slithered through and around the old car, one of dozens discarded in a remote woodland area in northern Indiana, as it literally rotted away...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Ford Super DeLuxe woodie
What’s not immediately apparent about this 1948 Ford Super DeLuxe woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com is that, even though it’s been finished off with concours-level quality inside and out,...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1940 Plymouth P10 woodie station wagon
There’s a lot to appreciate about this 1940 Plymouth P10 woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com: It appears that its entire history is known, back to the original owner; it’s in running and...
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1932 Ford Model B station wagon takes Ironstone Concours Best of Show
1932 Ford Model B station wagon, Best of Show at the 2015 Ironstone Concours d’Elegance. Photos by Ron Kimball. It’s not unusual for a Duesenberg or a Packard to take top honors at a concours...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1917 Ford Model T
When it comes to crafting wooden bodies to replace the original steel, some cars work better than others. A Lincoln Zephyr or Chrysler Airflow might not take to such refurbishment well (prove me wrong...
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Where wood meets magnificence: Chrysler’s Town and Country nameplate turns 75
1947 Chrysler Town and Country. Photo by David LaChance. Appropriately, and unlike pretty much every other car, one of the most celebrated nameplates in Chrysler’s history, the Town and Country,...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Ford Marmon-Herrington Super Deluxe Station...
Ford offered Marmon-Herrington four-wheel drive conversions on select vehicles from the 1930s into the early 1960s. There’s a reason the company isn’t a household name, however: Not only was...
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Matchless Mercury: The rarely seen 1950 two-door woodie wagon
Photography by the author. A few weeks ago, I traveled to the St. Augustine area of Florida to photograph six automobiles from a private collection. Of the 18 cars that make up this delectable group,...
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Part wagon, part sedan, all Packard – the 1948 Station Sedan woodie
1948 Packard Station Sedan. Photos by Ryan Merrill, courtesy Auctions America. In September of 1947, Packard debuted it 22nd series of automobiles, introducing its first all-new designs since 1941. In...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Dodge B-1
While this 1948 Dodge B-1 for sale on Hemmings.com leaves us with plenty of questions – which coachbuilder put it together? for whom? for what purpose? – there’s no doubting its unusualness or its...
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