In 1983, his '40 Ford woodie wagon served as a backdrop to the Beach Boys' third-annual Independence Day concert. This was to have been the third year in a row the Beach Boys appeared on the ...

The mention of woody station wagons inevitably conjures visions of surfing, the Beach Boys, Southern California and, usually, a Plymouth or a Ford. Other companies also sold woodies, but none ...

In the ‘60s, no surfing safari was complete without a “woody” (or woodie) station wagon parked on the beach, surfboards lashed to the roof The origins of this modern wood-trimmed wagon stem ...

With its exterior green paint paired with marine-grade wood and a white hardtop, this Bronco screams classic woody. The interior wasn’t forgot about when adding the fantastic wood detailing.

Phil Becker grew up listening to the surf-themed music of the Beach Boys. Images of sandy shores, crashing waves, and woodie wagons appealed to kids in Dwight, Illinois, but it would be many years ...

Whether it’s the high-toned estate wagons of East Coast ... is more than the embodiment of a Beach Boys song. To someone such as Howard Benfield, a woodie helps tell the story of his life.

Brian Wilson, co-founder of the iconic and pioneering surf music sounds of The Beach Boys has passed away. He was 82 years ...

Two "Pet Sounds" highlights, the former featuring envelope-pushing instrumentation and production and the latter, a deceptively complex harmonic structure as well as lyrics that were, at that point, ...

They even earned an appropriately kitschy nickname: “woody wagons.” People looked for ... along came surfers. Beach bums of California found that used wood and wood-paneled cars held up ...

The woodie wagons were, back in the 1940s ... culture and surf music of the 1960s (you might have heard of The Beach Boys), woodies dominated huge chunks of American car culture.