and fondest memories are of his younger days riding to the beach in the family's trusty old Ford woodie wagon. As the years and decades passed, Steve and his wife, Jeanette, found themselves in a ...

One such vehicle is the "The Woodyator," a custom woodie ... and surf music of the 1960s and became forever etched in automotive culture. Photo: RM Sotheby’s Ford Motor Company's woodie wagons ...

Phil Becker grew up listening to the surf-themed music of the Beach Boys. Images of sandy shores, crashing waves, and woodie wagons ... unrestored '46 Ford station wagon in Northern California.

In the ‘60s, no surfing safari was complete without a “woody” (or woodie) station wagon parked on the beach, surfboards lashed ... a 1929 Ford, sold for $650. Today, the largest collection ...

Whether it’s the high-toned estate wagons ... down beach buggies complete with mattresses, surf stickers and long boards, wood-bodied automobiles evoke another era. But a woody (or “woodie ...

Australian auction house Shannons has announced that a 1934 Ford ... ‘Woody’ wagons became cult vehicles in the late 1950s and 1960s as young surfers began using them to transport their ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH — Considered ... to use the slogan Surf City USA for advertising and marketing. Dan Simmons, a Huntington Beach resident and owner of a 1951 Ford woodie pitched the idea to ...

In 1929, Ford introduced the first mass-produced “woody,” a $695 ... the ample storage of station wagons in particular gave them plenty of room for their surfboards. Surfers in the '60s ...

The distinctive split rear window, vertical section of the bumper and torn fabric roof suggest that it is a 1940s Ford Super Deluxe Woody station wagon. Speculation is that it was Rear Admiral Frank ...