Ford Motor Company produced the first woodie wagon in 1929 with it’s Model A. The woodie was quite popular and it’s style lasted about a quarter of a century. The 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Woodie Wagon featured here is a great example of the beauty automakers could add to a vehicle by using finished wood trim. This eight passenger Woodie Wagon is a true classic Ford. From 1929 up to 1951 Ford Motor Company sold the most popular woodie station wagons during those years.
Henry Ford was so confident that the woodie concept would endure he bought hundreds of thousands of acres of woods in the western part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
By 1940, complete wood bodies were being built at Iron Mountain, Michigan and shipped to the Ford assembly plants where they were put on chassis. The vehicle’s body framework was typically maple, birch, mahogany or gum wood panels.
The first woodies were wagons and utility depot hacks. These were vehicles that were used at the time to transport passengers typically to and from railroad stations and hotels. These replaced the wooden horse drawn wagons. It’s a fact that during the first few decades of the twentieth century, the bodies of motorized depot hacks were essentially the same as those made for horse carriages except to lengthen them to fit over truck wheels. While the ve-WBcsoF>