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I have to confess that I have always had a bit of a soft spot for the look of the classic American woody.
I was reading this Wiki item recently, I find it interesting that such a strong styling trend in the US never really translated over here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodie_(car_body_sty...
Moggy and Mini travellers of course, Ford flirted with the Cortina/others, was that pretty well it for the UK?
I was reading this Wiki item recently, I find it interesting that such a strong styling trend in the US never really translated over here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodie_(car_body_sty...
Moggy and Mini travellers of course, Ford flirted with the Cortina/others, was that pretty well it for the UK?
The real wooden-bodied estate car/shooting brake/??? was quite widespread in the UK but you have to go back to the pre-unit construction era when cars could be supplied as rolling chassis.
The Morris Minor was a bit of a half-way house but wooden estate cars could be had from Alvis, Bentley, Daimler/Lanchester, Ford, Healey, Lea-Francis, Rolls-Royce and others.
The fashion for adding external bits of wood to unitary construction steel estate car bodies must have appealed to someone but shouldn't be confused with real wooden bodywork.
The Morris Minor was a bit of a half-way house but wooden estate cars could be had from Alvis, Bentley, Daimler/Lanchester, Ford, Healey, Lea-Francis, Rolls-Royce and others.
The fashion for adding external bits of wood to unitary construction steel estate car bodies must have appealed to someone but shouldn't be confused with real wooden bodywork.
Keep it stiff said:
Moggy and Mini travellers of course, Ford flirted with the Cortina/others, was that pretty well it for the UK?
Minor was wood framed, mini was wood fixed to a monocoque shell.I think the Minor was the only one produced in volume, the original ones built as shooting brakes would have been one offs.
john2443 said:
Keep it stiff said:
Moggy and Mini travellers of course, Ford flirted with the Cortina/others, was that pretty well it for the UK?
Minor was wood framed, mini was wood fixed to a monocoque shell.I think the Minor was the only one produced in volume, the original ones built as shooting brakes would have been one offs.
lowdrag said:
How about this Jaguar XK150? Transformed for his dogs and shotguns, and always kown as the "Foxbat".
Ha, you beat me to it. I'd been waiting till I got out to my main PC to hunt out the photo I'd taken of the poor put upon thing. Only I can't find the photo now. Not the greatest woody conversion and not the greatest thing anyone has ever done to an XK. But once you've seen it, you can't unsee it. Dapster said:
I'd love a go in one of those hideous faux wood mid 80's land yachts like the Chevvy Caprice. So bad they're good!
My thoughts exactly!That XK is a good effort although it looks like they gave up on trying to create appropriately stylish lines between the original roof and the extension.
Keep it stiff said:
That XK is a good effort although it looks like they gave up on trying to create appropriately stylish lines between the original roof and the extension.
I always thought that it looked like a MorryThou traveller stuck on the back of an XK150, it doesn't look any better in the metal I'm afraid. The join between the curvy roof of the XK and the flat of the back is jarringly obvious, a Lynx Eventer it is not.The other well known modified XK150 is this one
Which is completely off topic as its not a Woody
lowdrag said:
How about this Jaguar XK150? Transformed for his dogs and shotguns, and always kown as the "Foxbat".
I have always thought that the Foxbat's creator had a good idea - a woody XK could have looked great. But the execution wasn't up to the concept. Just looks like the Traveller rear was bolted on rather unhappily. 
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