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My Classic Car: 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe Woody

  
Via:  Buzz of the Orient  •  6 months ago  •  20 comments

By:   Bobby G, - California (Guest Contributor)

My Classic Car: 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe Woody
 

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My Classic Car: 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe Woody 

Literally escaping a fire together

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Images provided by Bobby G.

I owned this car  for 17 years. Throughout the years, we would take it the four hour drive from our home to Santa Cruz, CA, for the annual  Woodies on the Wharf  event. It was all original with factory overdrive.

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In November 2018 a devastating campfire took 95% of our beloved town. I remember waking up and looking out at 7 a.m. and the sky was red and black like midnight. My wife drove out in our H3 Hummer to go pick up her parents. We had only minutes to evacuate with just the clothes on our backs, thinking we would be back in a day or two.

I jumped in the '49 Plymouth Woody, and it took me three hours to go 15 miles to Chico in the bumper-to-bumper panic traffic. Everyone was trying to escape.

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We didn't make it back in a few days, instead we lost our home, our 12 vintage cars and my shop. My son often comments on how I drove a wooden car through the fire, but I just couldn't leave Woodrow behind. It's not a very happy story, but the car survived and so did our family. A friend stored it for me for a while, but unfortunately I ended up having to sell the car. Here are some great photos of it; hope you enjoy the car.


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Buzz of the Orient
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1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient    6 months ago

I thought this was a really relevant story considering the present wildfires in California.  It's just a minimally happy story in that the owner saved his woody, but a sad one considering all the rest of his losses.  What I'm really trying to do here, though, is to figure out what the second word is on that T-shirt.  LOL

 
 
 
Krishna
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1.1  Krishna  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @1    6 months ago

I’m wondering if that word was in some way deliberately altered so viewers could not make out what it was. I tried to make it bigger but still couldn’t tell. The first letter seems to be D. The second may or may no be an O. But it’s impossible to read.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.1.1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @1.1    6 months ago

Yes, it's hard to stop staring at it, isn't it.

 
 
 
Krishna
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2  Krishna    6 months ago

Is a “Woody” the same thing as what we used to call a “station wagon”?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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2.1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @2    6 months ago

Not all station wagons were called or were "woodies".  Read the title again.  The author called his car, which had wood sides, a "woody".  It would not be called a "woody" if it did not have wood as part of its exterior, but then you knew that, didn't you. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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3  Kavika     6 months ago

Surfin, USA the classic Woody rules PCH.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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3.1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @3    6 months ago

PCH?  Pacific Coast Highways?

 
 
 
Krishna
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3.1.1  Krishna  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3.1    6 months ago

Only someone who owned an actual Woody would know what PCH means!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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3.1.2  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @3.1.1    6 months ago

Would a person who never left England who owned a woody know what PCH meant?

 
 
 
Krishna
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3.1.3  Krishna  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3.1.2    6 months ago

Probably not Publisher’s Clearing House.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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3.1.4  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @3.1.3    6 months ago

I'm pretty sure it doesn't stand for Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria.

 
 
 
Kavika
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3.1.5  Kavika   replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3.1    6 months ago

Yes, PCH is Pacific Coast Highway.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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3.1.6  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @3.1.5    6 months ago

Thank you - finally a definitive answer to alleviate my acronyphobia.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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4  seeder  Buzz of the Orient    6 months ago

By the way, don't miss clicking the author's link of "Woodies on the Wharf" for some real Woody candy for the eyes.

 
 
 
Krishna
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4.1  Krishna  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @4    6 months ago

Nice!

Somehow those photos makes me think of The Beach Boys (even though they drove different kinds of cars).

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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4.1.1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @4.1    6 months ago

What surprised me in the top image that is opened by that link was to see 3 1950 Ford Woodies side by side.  Maybe I particularly took note of that because my first car when I was 16 was shared with my brother was a 1950 Ford Custom Coach. 

 
 
 
Krishna
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5  Krishna    6 months ago

I’m wondering if that word was in some way deliberately altered so viewers could not make out what it was. I tried to make it bigger but still couldn’t tell. The first letter seems to be D. The second may or may no be an O. But it’s impossible to read.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5.1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @5    6 months ago

Are you having a problem with deleting duplicate comments?

 
 
 
Kavika
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6  Kavika     6 months ago

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Woody's Diner on PCH in Huntington Beach. I've eaten there many a time.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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6.1  seeder  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @6    6 months ago

Damn.  9:30 p.m. and your comment just made me hungry.

 
 

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