A 1951 Studebaker fastback might not be the first vehicle to come to mind when we think “Woody,” but here one sits on the SEMA show floor. There’s a reason for that: Studebaker didn’t make ...

Somehow, Studebaker had managed to scrape together enough money to tool up for its first four-door station wagon in 1957. The company had taken to naming its wagons for prestigious hotels ...

It also had very stylish wood inserts on the sides ... without spending a lot of money on retooling. Studebaker was already offering a wagon version of the Lark, but the Wagonaire was slightly ...

Taylor has this thing for two-door wagons, which is why he chose a '59-'61 Studebaker Lark to sportify ... is another way to skin a car. Doug "Wood'N'Carr" Carr, rebodies woodies for a living ...

It's been a century and half since the Studebaker family started building ... It used a small amount of wood applique on the side of the car, but nothing compared with its contact-paper-covered ...

opens blacksmith and wood shop. • 1850 ... invests in struggling wagon works. • 1861-65: Studebaker supplies wagons to the Union Army during Civil War. • 1865: On April 14, President ...

They even earned an appropriately kitschy nickname: “woody wagons.” People looked for that same vibe in their automobiles, too. When car production began ramping up in the 1920s, it wasn’t ...

In 1863, the business was turned over to the son, John A. Chockelt. While the carriage and wagon industries of Studebaker and Coquillard sought the wagon market in the western territories of the ...

Owning a woodie meant girls and freedom and cool. You turned the key and you were gone, man, anywhere the Pacific Coast Highway took you. As Jan & Dean sang, "I got a '34 wagon and I call it a ...