woody

[A. Maberry]

Same here. "Woodies" or "woody wagons" in the Pacific Northwest.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ray Ott wrote:

> As  car-crazy northern California high school kids we called them "woodies"
> throughout the fifities.  By the mid to late late fifties, none were actually
> being made any more out of wood, and as used cars they had sunk to the "low
> point" of the price curve between new and classic/antique (especially the
> Fords, always most numerous of the type) making them affordable for kids who
> needed a vehicle capable of carrying surf boards--and which was cool-looking.
>
> Adults, of course, continued to call them "station wagons".
>
> Ray Ott
>