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Columbia Pictures' top-grossing film for the 1940s, director John Stahl's 1945 Leave Her to Heaven starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde, features a "woodie" station wagon early in the film. Many other American movies from the 1940s also feature woodies. The woodie was also closely associated with surfers and Surf-rock, e.g.,
The Town and Country continued unchanged inside and out. It remained as large and well equipped as ever, but the market's interest in giant luxury station wagons was waning. 1977 would be the last year of Chrysler Town and Country as a traditional American full-sized premium station wagon.
The Wagon's all-steel body was sometimes painted as a woodie. The Jeep Wagon was designed in the mid-1940s by industrial designer Brooks Stevens. [7] Willys did not make their own bodies, car bodies were in high demand, and Willys was known to have limited finances.
A 1948 Ford woodie station wagon, one of the last of the all-wood bodied wagons The final year for the old-style Ford was 1948, with an all-new model launched partway through the year. The wood-sided Sportsman convertible, supplied by the Ford Iron Mountain Plant , ended the year with just 28 built, and the all-wood bodies on the woody station ...
Buick Estate is a nameplate that was used by the Buick division of General Motors, denoting its luxury full-size station wagon from 1940 to 1964 and from 1970 to 1996. The Estate nameplate was derived from the term country estate in wealthy suburban areas and estate car, the British term for a station wagon.
3. Dodge Coronet. Years produced: 1965-1976 Original starting price: $2,650 The Coronet, as a family sedan and wagon with brawny V8 engines — including a 7-liter Hemi and a 7.2-liter, 440-cubic ...
Standard station wagons had imitation leather upholstery while Deluxe types had genuine leather cushions. 1941 was the last year Pontiac offered a model with the GM C-body until the big "Clamshell tailgate" Pontiac Safari and Grand Safari station wagons of 1971–76. The 1971–76 wagons were B-body variants with longer wheelbase than sedans.
Standard Streamliner station wagons had tan imitation leather seats and Deluxe wagons had red upholstery of the same type. [2] Station wagon prices ranged from $2,364 for a standard Six to $2,490 for a Deluxe Eight, making them Pontiac's most expensive model. [2] In 1948 160,857 Streamliners were sold, accounting for nearly 66% of all Pontiacs. [2]