Station Wagon Wood Siding

Although we specialize in producing the black line woodgrain used on ford country squire wagons and the mercury colony park we can provide woodgrain for any vintage woodgr.

Station wagon wood siding.

And we d love to have one these full sizers with wood siding. The american station wagon is an endangered species. But ford still had plenty of faux wood siding left over from the heyday of station wagons and it was otherwise going to just sit around. Station wagons had fallen out of favor but they re cool again.

Those built with real wood prior to 1954 and those built with faux wood paneling or di noc after 1953 though some manufacturers dropped real wood bodied wagons from their lineup prior to that year. A station wagon also called an estate car estate or wagon is a car body style which has a two box design a large cargo area and a rear tailgate that is hinged to open for access to the cargo area the body style is similar to a hatchback car but station wagons are longer and are more likely to have the roof line extended to the rear of the vehicle body resulting in a vertical rear surface. A woodie or a woodie wagon is a type of station wagon where the rear car bodywork is constructed of wood or is styled to resemble wood elements. In basic form it can be said that there are two different generations of wood clad domestic vehicles.

Over time manufacturers supplanted wood construction with a variety of materials and methods evoking wood construction including infill metal panels metal framework or simulated wood. But people are still passionate about them as we see in facebook groups like the secret society of the. Each division had their own fancy version usually with vinyl wood appliques on the sides the chevrolet caprice estate pontiac grand safari olds custom cruiser and buick estate wagon. Originally wood framework augmented the car s structure.

1983 mercury grand marquis ls brougham station wagon complete with faux wood siding smoker s vent windows and a roof rack. Initially limited to use almost exclusively on station wagons by the 1970s you rarely saw a wagon without vinyl faux wood grain siding making them still pretty plentiful today. The 1971 76 gm full size station wagons were the largest wagons the company ever made.