The wood car company

[Charlie Olson]

I contacted Fred Wood yesterday to ask him to send me some photos of his original creations of Wood Car Company Woodies. I received this email and these photos from him. He is still building original, one-of-a-kind Woodies. Enjoy!

Charlie Olson, Historian, Wood Car Owners Club

charlie, fred and sydney here, weve seen the articles , in the woodie times, and one in a washington paper.its always a thrill to see them , we recently sent you a email when we saw plywood got in a accident, glad all is well with you two ,especially glad you didnt get injured.things here couldnt be better, still working on old cars and newer ones sense the economy tanked been buying and selling mostly , still buying old cars and building one on occassion.i have some very rare and unusual cars and trucks.we also deal in aniques and building materials, having a great time,going to start another woodie soon got a couple possibilities , but heres a pic of my last completed one, its a 1947 studebaker woodie truck ,built this from the ground up ,it was a pickup truck has a v8 ps pb rack and pinion locking rear dif disc brakes , even tilt and electric bucket seats, a blast to drive and show, probably sell this spring , might advertise in woodie times.heres some other woodies we have done. keep in touch ,fred and sydney wood.

Edited December 23, 2010 by Charlie Olson

[Young Ed]

That sideways one looks like a 41 plymouth pickup turned woodie. I'd like to see more of that one!

[BobT-47P15]

[Charlie Olson]

Yep! Ed, that is a 41 Plymouth pick up. I'll ask Fred to send me more photos of it, if he has them.

That sideways one looks like a 41 plymouth pickup turned woodie. I'd like to see more of that one!

[Charlie Olson]

Thanks Bob for rotating the photo of the 41 pick up woodie.

[1940plymouth]

Charie, thanks for posting those photos. That Studebaker is stunning

[Young Ed]

Yep! Ed, that is a 41 Plymouth pick up. I'll ask Fred to send me more photos of it, if he has them.

Thanks Its really neat. Plymouth never made such a vehicle but they did sell cab and chassis and cowl and chassis units that an aftermarket builder could have used to create one.

[Charlie Olson]

I re read Fred's term for the 41, in his email: " this is the 1941 plymouth woody truck". Maybe I should call it LUMBERTRUCK?????

Thanks Its really neat. Plymouth never made such a vehicle but they did sell cab and chassis and cowl and chassis units that an aftermarket builder could have used to create one.

[Niel Hoback]

Lumberwagon?

[Charlie Olson]

Well, Ed informed us that Plymouth didn't make a 41 pickup, but did offer a vehicle with a front end, cowl, windshield, etc; so any builder could make what they wanted. Turns out, Mr. Wood used lumber to turn this truck into a wagon; thus LUMBERWAGON, a play on words with multiple meanings, just like PLYWOOD. Good choice

However, for those of you who are Imagination Challenged, I provide link: http://tiny.cc/8kw5l

Lumberwagon?

Edited December 27, 2010 by Charlie Olson

[Jim Benjaminson]

Charlie - Plymouth DID make a pickup in 1941 - the last year for them. They came as complete units, cab & chassis units and as a "flat face cowl" for addition of a body by an outside body builder, such as a school bus or whatever. The only "woodie" factory built in '41 was on the passenger car chassis. I'd be surprised if some of the body builders such as Cantrell, Campbell, etc. didn't make a couple of bodies on the PT125 chassis. And during the war, many vehicles that left the factory as passenger cars were converted to wood wagons by these firms. Fred did a great job in building this conversion. In hindsight it makes you wonder how many Plymouth could have sold had they offered such a creation in '41!

[greg g]

Wood bodied wagons were available for Pickup chassis during the 30's and 40's, and were used by hotels and resorts to transport guest and thier luggage from the train station to the properties.

Here is one on an International Harvestor KB Chassis. So it's probably not a strech to assume that one or more were made on Plymouth PT commercial chassis also.

Also there is a fellow on another forum that refers to himself or his car as PLYWUD

[Young Ed]

Looks like this one I saw at back to the 50s.

[P-12 Tommy]

Ed, That's one sharp lookin' red woodie!

Tom

[Charlie Olson]

Yep! That is one fine Phantom Woodie. The gentleman who owns it, lives in Stillwater, MN, and I had the honor of seeing his car while visiting him, a few years back.

Looks like this one I saw at back to the 50s.

[BobT-47P15]

I've seen a few other phantom woodies, some of them rods/customs.

A lot of the work has seemed really nice.

[Young Ed]

Charlie will you tell him he really needs to get a stainless grill put back in That car made me do a double take as plymouth really made woodie wagons in 1950(last year)