Station Wagon Wood Siding

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Station wagon wood siding.

And we d love to have one these full sizers with 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. Originally wood framework augmented the car s structure. In basic form it can be said that there are two different generations of wood clad domestic vehicles.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Woodgrain4wagons is a manufacturer of replacement woodgrain vintage station wagons. But people are still passionate about them as we see in facebook groups like the secret society of the. 1983 mercury grand marquis ls brougham station wagon complete with faux wood siding smoker s vent windows and a roof rack. What was the pinnacle of suburban transport the full sized wood trimmed station wagon fell into irrelevance thanks to the minivan and then the suv.

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. 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.