Got Wood?

When did they stop putting structural wood in Fords and Chevys. I've got a 52 Chevy that I've sold and was thinking about an older truck project. Really no preferance for Ford or Chevy but was curiose about the wood thing.

Thanks,
HUSSEY

 

I think the last Ford was a 1951 Woody. HRP

 

I had a few chevy low cab trucks and in 37 they had replaced the wood with steel.
My 40 chevy sedan delivery has a steel rear door (the 39 has wood in the door) but still has a wood frame around the rear body opening

 

Wood beds are nice, I think the ford was 51, Chevy I think was 53 maybe.

 

The wood in 49-51 Ford and Merc woodie wagons is not structural.
Ford pretty much eliminated wood structure by 1935 except for the wagons.
Chevrolet was wood structured until 1937 EXCEPT for some late 36 Standard only 2door sedans(Coach in GM speak), 4door sedans, and 5window coupes. These are often called steel door cars but are the predecessors of the all-steel 37 line-up.

 

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

 

Ford used strutural wood through 1948 not 1935, in 1949 they went to metal bodies Lorin Sorensen RIP wrote a number of Ford books and talked about how Henry bought a large piece of forest land and grew his own wood for the woody body at the Iron Mountain plant where they produced..............Great pictures of them building woody's at Iron Mountain in his "The Open Fords" book...

 

1948 for the Chevy wagon (the 49 had real wood but it wasn't strutural and by 1950, it was painted to look like wood)

 

My bad,,I obliviously missed. ( STRUCTUARL ),,poop happens. HRP

 

pasadena hot rod X-2.

 

Last structural wood in Fords was the 1948 Ford Woody. The 49-51 Woodies were metal structures with wood bolt ons. Henry's forest provided many a timber for cars and was far less expensive than steel which was in short supply during the war. I love the old woodies from32-51.