Jeff Yeagle Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) i thought it would be neat to try to post a "photo of the day" every day for 2013!!feel free to add your own pics as well. I know MANY woodie enthusiasts have vintage or interesting photos I believe that this photo was taken sometime in the early 1980's? Fairly certain it was taken AT Hershey. anyone know for sure.. Edited January 2, 2013 by Jeff Yeagle (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Yeagle Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 classic town and country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 JEFF, great idea! It'll be fun, maybe educational, while keeping this new forum active. Here's my first contribution.Although today they're usually gussied up in bright colours, gorpy visors, and wide, wide whitewalls, most woodies in their time were work horses. In period street scenes and in the background of old movies, they were dull, dirty, and often had a ladder lashed to the roof. One of my all-time favourites is the bathtub Packard Station Sedan, 1948 through 1950, on the Standard Eight chassis only. No flippin' cormorant on the hood for these plus-size beauties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Cool , like the old woodie pics .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woodie53buick Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Great idea, Jeff. Here's my Pontiac, picture taken in the 1970's, or 60,000 miles ago! Phil Stofanak[ATTACH=CONFIG]171133[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plymouthwoody Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 This is what they used to do with old woodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 WOODIE53, your photo didn't make it up. Let me know if you have trouble posting, I'll walk you through it.I like how this thread is shaping up to be an Olde Timey photo drop. Keep 'em coming, people.PLY-WOOD, the joke is on the junkyard - they wouldn't have got full scrap value for that half-wooden wagon. Hey, my inlaws live in Abbotsford. There's a dark blue '46-'48 Town & Country sedan stored in the parking garage of their condo buidling. Nice car, probably an older restoration. Do you happen to know the car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woodie53buick Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I'm going to try this again. Here is a 1936 Chevrolet with a Campbell body from Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plymouthwoody Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 WOODIE53, your photo didn't make it up. Let me know if you have trouble posting, I'll walk you through it.I like how this thread is shaping up to be an Olde Timey photo drop. Keep 'em coming, people.PLY-WOOD, the joke is on the junkyard - they wouldn't have got full scrap value for that half-wooden wagon. Hey, my inlaws live in Abbotsford. There's a dark blue '46-'48 Town & Country sedan stored in the parking garage of their condo buidling. Nice car, probably an older restoration. Do you happen to know the car?Have rarely seen another woodie in Abbotsford. I'm usually the only one in the local car shows. Would like to know who owns the one your talking about. Heres another odd ball one. A woodie dragster. Dont know the year, but the sign says racing gas is 50 cents a gallon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Have rarely seen another woodie in Abbotsford. I'm usually the only one in the local car shows. Would like to know who owns the one your talking about. Heres another odd ball one. A woodie dragster. Dont know the year, but the sign says racing gas is 50 cents a gallon...[ATTACH=CONFIG]171324[/ATTACH]Olds Woody from Jeff Courtiehere are infos on the NHRA Webside Jeff Courtie: A pair of pretty sound careers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woodie53buick Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Have rarely seen another woodie in Abbotsford. I'm usually the only one in the local car shows. Would like to know who owns the one your talking about. Heres another odd ball one. A woodie dragster. Dont know the year, but the sign says racing gas is 50 cents a gallon...[ATTACH=CONFIG]171324[/ATTACH] I think that Olds woodie is still around. There was an article on it in the Woodie Times not to many years ago.As for the owner of the '36 Chevy woodie, contact me privately at stofpc@rcn.com and I'll send you his name. I don't want to put it out there just in case he is a little shy, which never happens with woodie people, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48woodie Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Dear Jeff,With a little research maybe you could find this one ??Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Now there's a cosmopolitan scene - notice how the American cars appear to drive on the righthand side of the street, while the English cars are on the left? Must have been chaos at rush hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLynskey Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I always love photos. Keep 'em coming.Here's one that will bring tears to your eyes. Taken about 15 years ago in Southeast Iowa.Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristech Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 My 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan Country Club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I like this photo , metal left ... wood right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48woodie Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Dear Jeff,He's a photo of me in high school hanging out with my buddies at the VFW Hall.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48woodie Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Some girls showed up about an hour later.Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Imported from Buick Funnies over on the Buick - General forum:Two Aggies buy a 1951 Buick woody and take it back to their shop and get to work on it. After working on it all day and night they take a step back and get a good look at what they have.Then the first Aggie says to the second, "You know, I think it looked better before we took it out of the crate" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLynskey Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Maybe this will make up for the derelict Chrysler Town and Country I posted above. This one is in a little better condition. Photographed at Charlotte in 2008. I particularly like the matching kayak.Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Yeagle Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 somewhat needy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plymouthwoody Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Woody For sale! Great winter father/son project. These babies can be worth 150K when done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48woodie Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 This has some potential....I think I'll call.....???Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woodie53buick Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Picking up my 1947 Oldsmobile 6-door woodie, Charlotte, Vermont, 1983. Phil Stofanak and the late Larry Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 PHIL, what's the story behind that stretched woodie? Hotel car? Work crew carrier? Rich family with too many kids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woodie53buick Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 PHIL, what's the story behind that stretched woodie? Hotel car? Work crew carrier? Rich family with too many kids?Rob,The story that came with the car, and I have no reason to doubt it, is that the car was built for the Woolworth Estate in Freeport, Maine. They used it to pick up guests of the estate at the train station. I've heard from people in the Freeport area that there are pictures of it at the estate and around town. The car was built as a standard four-door station wagon by Hercules Body Company, then stretched by McNear Body Company of Framingham, Ma. There are body tags on the seats and firewall from both companies. The restoration will be a monumental task, as powder-post beetles have been feasting on the birch body despite my best efforts to eradicate them. It is now out of the barn that its been in since 1983 and I have it at my garage at home. I expect to begin the restoration in the next few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Hey, people, we're slipping up. We gotta post a wood-bodied car here every day - New Year's resolution, y'know.Not bad, not bad at all. Hudson didn't build it but someone did a very nice job of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Chevrolet Woody , wiht 3 peace wood slats on the Door panels , was this specially on the 47-48 Model , the most have one slat ?( Excuse my english is not so good ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 PANCHO, my Swiss-german-french-italian is much worse. Great period photo - do you know where it was taken?You're right, Chev woodies usually had just one horizontal framing member across the doors. None of the station wagon bodies at that time were manufactured by GM or Fisher. I can't say without some research who was the "normal" supplier - it might have been Ionia - but your example could have been built by one of the other regulars, such as Cantrell or Hercules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 do you know where it was taken? No unfortunately notbut your example could have been built by one of the other regulars, such as Cantrell or Hercules What or who is Cantrell ?Here an other picture of the DayThis image was selected as picture of the day on the english Wikipedia for October 22 ,2006</SPAN>Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California. The car is a 1933 Ford Model C, 4 door Wagon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristech Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Thought I would share this pic. Hope everyone likes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 FABULOUS! I gots me a new desktop background, thanks.Does anyone here know how these Chevs and the similar Nashes where built? Were the sheet metal door and quarter panel skins deleted and the wood set flush into that space? Or, was the wood framing simply overlaid on the surface of the sheet metal, with the panels applied as Dynoc transfers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 What or who is Cantrell ?They were another coachbuilder, who supplied station wagon bodies to the manufacturers, as well as building custom bodies for individuals. Here's a terrific website, with stories of most of the Classic-era coachbuilders - J.T. Cantrell, J.T. Cantrell & Brother, Suburban, Woody, Woodie, J.T. Cantrell & Company, Huntington, Joseph Theodore Cantrell - CoachBuilt.comDorothea Lange was a fascinating woman, photographer, and journalist. Her family home, a grand log cabin in Berkeley CA (I think), was written up in American Bungalow magazine a couple of years ago. The Resettlement Administration was part of FDR's New Deal, which tried to overcome the social hardships of the Great Depression. It helped people get out of the depressed, jobless cities and spread them across the rural US, where their prospects for success could be better. Lots of sad stories but very hopeful at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristech Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 FABULOUS! I gots me a new desktop background, thanks.Does anyone here know how these Chevs and the similar Nashes where built? Were the sheet metal door and quarter panel skins deleted and the wood set flush into that space? Or, was the wood framing simply overlaid on the surface of the sheet metal, with the panels applied as Dynoc transfers?The wood kits on these cars was placed on too of the sheetmetal body. The original kit was white ash and the insert is African mahogany transfer film. Dealerships contracted to a company out of Detroit called Engineering Enterprises. This was a dealer option you couldn't order from Chevrolet. I didn't like the transfer film so I put real African mahogany veneer and them varnished it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 They were another coachbuilder, who supplied station wagon bodies to the manufacturers, as well as building custom bodies for individuals. Here's a terrific website, with stories of most of the Classic-era coachbuilders - J.T. Cantrell, J.T. Cantrell & Brother, Suburban, Woody, Woodie, J.T. Cantrell & Company, Huntington, Joseph Theodore Cantrell - CoachBuilt.com.Thanks for the terrific website , ( I and Google translators are already good friends ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plymouthwoody Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 If you stop looking at the girl, You will see the woody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Lovely Pontiac (1940) with great legs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pancho Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 a ’47 Chevrolet “Woody” in California’s Sequoia National Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Yeagle Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 chevy on the beach... somewhere in Florida.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
48woodie Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I built this for my boys last week. Do you think a 16hp engine is enough ??Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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