Bob Drake Catalog

STATION WAGONS

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1932-37 Car

1932-48

Station Wagon

TAILGATE HANDLE GROMMET

Fits under handle & gives a clean,
finished look. (2) required.

B-41648 $4.00 each

91A-7943916 1939-41

21A-7943916 1942-48

$20.00 pair

TAILGATE BUMPERS

Molded rubber bumpers that fit

around the tail gate latch pin.

21A-7943916

91A-7943916

1940-48 Wagon

LIFT-GATE SWING ARMS

Designed to adjust the angle of the tail
gate rear window or hold it open.
01A-7942060-B $65.00 pair

1940-48 Wagon

LIFT-GATE SWING ARM

BRACKET ASSEMBLIES

Fits on tailgate rear window. Holds

swing arm. Includes 2 special screws.

01A-7942062 $90.00 kit

1937-48 Wagon

LIFT-GATE SWING ARM

BRACKET ASSEMBLIES

Fits on rear corner body post. Holds

swing arms. Includes all hardware &

special adjusting nut.

78-796122 $80.00 kit

1934-37

46-865711-S $35.00 each

Station Wagon Tailgate Components

In 1919, the Stoughton Wagon Company of Stoughton, Wisconsin
began making the world’s very first automotive station wagons using
Ford’s Model T Truck as the basis. Public and commercial acceptance
was huge and soon these unique, versatile vehicles were called many
names such as “depot hacks” or just “hacks”, “carryalls” and “suburbans”
but none stuck and stayed with the Ford station wagon better than
“Woody”. By 1929 Ford was by far the largest producer of what was now
their very own station wagon, but involving many other companies
in the specialized process of combining major wood components
with steel to make vehicles for the road. The Ford woody became an
institution with Americana culture throughout the 40s, 50s, 60s and
beyond. The last of the genuine Ford woodies featuring all-wood
external door skins and body panels was produced in 1951. Later
offerings from Ford still sported large wood panels and divider trim,
but the wood was fastened to steel skins with all-steel support columns
taking the place of thick, machined hardwood. By 1955 Ford had
substituted plastics and other composites including photo-printed steel
and aluminum in place of the bulky but beautiful genuine wood. The
simulated woody wagons continued to be produced into the 1990s.

The Birth of the

World’s First Station Wagon

There’s nothing finer than having an early Ford or Mercury wagon with a tailgate that looks and func-

tions like new. Get yours back in shape with authentic components from Bob Drake, each made to
match the original.