woody=early wood-sided auto

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:20 PM -0600 3/23/03, Barbara Need wrote:
>>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.
>
I probably just have a dirty mind, but I'd wager that any car known
alternately as a "woody" and as a "beaver car" would have been
popular among dating couples...

larry