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After sitting in a garage for 35 years this Chev is seeing NM day light again. My engine/tranny installer is going to get this one running again. She is a classic. REALLY glad I'm not board and I'm broke too!
Wood interior door panels??????

What a find this one is !!!! WOW.

Getting this back on the road is like adopting a rescue dog ... just great satisfaction.

back in the 60's, we had a pair of chevy woodies, a 51 and a 52. both had door panels and rear quarter inner panels composed of real wooden panels. as i recall, the garnish moldings were also wood. that was the extent of the use of wood on these pseudo-woodies. they are both deceased at this point i time. however, we still have a 39 chevy woodie, which contains significantly more wood than the pair we had back in the day.mike

Great find

That is really a great find.
The color is Rodeo Beige. The other wagon colors in 1950 were Oxford Maroon and Crystal Green. The green was a medium gray/green and very metallic and very difficult to duplicate.

If you do decide to restore it and do not have the fender skirts (they were standard equipment) I have aaan excelent pair of used ones.

You are one lucky dude...My next project would look something like that

Not mine and can't afford it right now.
Don't want to afford it either!

You just know that little beauty is anxious to be on the road again with its owner.

Great find. Wow. Makes me salivate like a Pavlow(sp) dog.

Charlie

I now understand this barn find 1950 wagon is not yours. But your engine guy will get it running for new owner. Well, still a neat car.
I have a fully restored 1951. I don't know how to post photos; but there's a small picture to left of my posts.
Yes, interior door panels are real wood. Exterior "wood" was di-noc transfer. About what we'd call contact paper these days. Re-production is available. But many air brush wood grain.....as mine is.
Thanks for showing us this neat old survivor/barn find.
Bill.

Bill?

So are they rare?

Not certain of rare or not, but that specific car looks as good as the day it was parked at the train station, back in the '50's.

The car looks soooo complete.

The 49's thru 51's are not all that rare depending what rare is? Point is that not all that many are being restored or brought back to the road.

If rare is what you are looking for, then opt for the real wood bodied 1949. The final year of the true woodie, and not many left. As for the tin woodies, there are some hard to find interior and exterior parts for them. Some of the parts were specific to just the wagons, which makes them hard to find...

WOW ! What a great find and in super shape.