woody=early wood-sided auto

[Barbara Need]

>So, Jan and Dean(with the writing help of Brian Wilson} say in the 1963 hit
>Surf City, "I got a '30 Ford wagon and I call it a woody."  (Unless,of
>course, there's a mondegreen lurking there).
>
>The OED cites "woody" to mean a wood-sided auto  from 1961.  Fine.
>
>What did the world call that car before 1961?  You mean it didn't have a
>slang name?

I called it a beaver car during my childhood in the 60s.

Barbara