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The vehicle featured in this photo article is the 1931 Chevrolet Woody Wagon. This is a very unique vehicle called a “depot hack“. Today we call these taxi cabs but back during the 1930’s these cabs certainly looked different. The depot hack received it’s name because many of these large vehicles were purchased by railroad stations that used them to take passengers to their hotel.

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1931 Chevy Woody

These were also the woody’s long before Ford began building their popular woody’s for individual use. The earliest woody’s however were the wood bodied depot hacks like the one shown and were specifically built to carry people along with their luggage.

Depot Hacks and Station Wagons

The woody vehicles are considered the forerunners of what America came to know as the “station wagon“. Most contend that the station wagon began with the depot hacks and evolved through the 1996 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon. The term station wagon appears to have began around the late 1920’s. Today’s station wagon could be called an SUV.

The depot hacks like the 1931 Chevrolet model shown here were originally used to transport passengers between hotels and train stations. They were also used to transport people to ferry docks.

Chevrolet Woody Depot Hack
Chevrolet Woody Depot Hack

The depot hack was essentially an open body vehicle with room to seat many passengers. Ford came out with a depot hack in 1919 using their universal Model T chassis. The Model T chassis was thought to be ideal for many type vehicles, everything from a passenger car to a commercial vehicle.

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The very fact that car and truck bodies were at one time made out of genuine wood meant that they would need to be restored at some point if they were to last. Wood does deteriorate over time. When a car body begins to rot there is nothing else to do than have it restored. The vintage and classic woody wagons and depot hacks you see on display today have had their wood body restored and the cost to do this would not have been insignificant.

Today you’ll find several good companies that specialize in wood car body restoration. When you see a fully restored depot hack like the one 1931 Chevrolet depot hack shown here, there’s a good chance that a five figure amount has gone into it.

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