1937 Ford Woodie Restomod - Jay Leno's Garage
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1937 Ford Woodie Restomod - Jay Leno's Garage
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Soooooo glad you do this show, Jay.
Thank you again for the whole series.
I wouldn't want one, they just sound too expensive and delicate,
but so glad others do. Thanks to the owners and the craftsmen who build them.
Hahaha Jay "if it's a 150 degree day you've got other problems"
Great builds, and I love how those two Fords are Ford powered. Just so natural.
The woodiea were in some movies of the 30s 40s,, and 50s. DARK PASSAGE - BOGART BACALL, ROY ROGERS TV SHOW - OCCASIONALY
Perfect....More Station Wagons Please. Late 50's thru 70's are nice.....
I love when people keep their classic cars unmodified. Truly beautiful.
That is beautiful !!!
On wow, Jay actually understandably said "Welcome to another episode".
So what was the first production car to come with a radio?
You will see them here in Texas Jay.
When his mother bought him those trousers, she obviously didn't realize he was going to grow so quickly.
i love looking at woodies but what is the point of having one if you can't take it to the beach
Respectful modding. That's what it should mean. People should do this more often.
Good point. Other than the lumber, there was nothing much special to restore. Like the guys said, they were almost un-driveble.
Resto-mod? How about Respecto-mod?
All that drama with the wood is easily solved by using a WEST System finish...Designed for wood boats, The WEST (Wood Epoxy Saturation Tech) System finish will make it truly durable and usable in all weather with no more swelling or dimension changes from Temperature and humidity, and no problem with UV damage or discoloring either.
You still have to build it the old way. There is no change to the joinery and look of the wood body at all, so you have the great look but with modern tech in the finish....Great looking wood, without the downside.
Bravo 21, agreed that West System epoxy is wonderous. I've got different numbers and size containers, actually use it in place of welding sometimes, depending on the application.
You sir are correct BUT in a different realm of functional properties. But you are right...not correct!
It's funny how originally the wood was a cost saving mesure and now instead it costs as much as a new car
Lol " you're a Johnson with a woody"
The wood joinery is not "Tongue & Grove" as Jay said but rather what is known as "Finger Jointed".
More importantly is the beauty of these cars. Like works of art in some cases. Very nicely done.
Thanks for the post....beautiful woodies. In 1961 at 16 years of age, I bought a beautiful original 46 Ford Woodie for $400.00. Many beach guys had woodies in San Diego, and I was one of the characters who loved them and abused them....out with the third seat to make room for the surf board. When it came time to fix a thrown rod, bad trans or some other mechanical problem, owners would take their vehicle to North Beach in Ocean Beach San Diego, and set them on fire, abandon, and have the city remove what was remaining. I never condoned the burning and consequently was never involved, but when mine was giving me trouble, I traded it for a 750 Norton Scrambler motorcycle. I'd like to have all the woodies that were left in the sand pit at North Beach. Even in the day, it hurt me to see our wooden cars destroyed. They were bulky, noisy, geared low, required constant wood attention...basically a pain, but I loved them then and have two now....a 1948, and 1951 Ford. Beautiful.
Kenneth Coffey I love these nostalgic stories of the past and they always makes me think about how much I would have loved to have been alive back in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately I was born in 1983 and my first car was very unimpressive, it was a 1990 Ford Festiva automatic, but at least it had cold air conditioning. I have had 52 cars since then and now I have two cars, a daily driver 2014 Dodge Ram 3500HD with the Cummins diesel, and my project, a 1997 Honda Civic coupe that makes 508 wheel horsepower that I not only built, but painted myself right in my mud and gravel driveway with a 3 gallon pancake air compressor and a $30 Walmart HVLP paint gun. I have owned many domestic cars including a 600 horsepower 74 Camaro that my brother still owns, but when I was a teenager the imports is what was popular although I have owned many rare high horsepower imports, this common Civic with a 1.8L DOHC VTEC Acura Integra engine that has been rebuilt with forged internals and had a turbocharger added is alot of fun and never fails to put a big smile on my face. Thanks for the trip down memory lane buddy. I would really like to see your Fords someday.
K
Great looking cars. That 37 really sounds good too. They definitely do nice work.
Those are truly beautiful, the 30-40s had some incredible designs, especially in the two seat sedans and with the great woodie wagons. Love the fenders and paint jobs
The joints are not tongue and groove... they are finger-joints...
And the wood is not mahogany
he said he wasnt the wood guy
Neither is Jay obviously.
when they said Curly, that tipped me, It might be Curly Maple, which when finished turns that blonde color
yep, that's correct. Tongue and groove is how floor boards are joined.
When your car body finally rots away you can just grow a new one.
I'm so happ these fords kept with a ford engine.
I hate when people build an old hot rod Ford and put in a small block Chevy engine. I wouldn't put a Ford engine in a Chevy either
I had a 1940 Ford wagon and it was parked daily in front of my stereo shop in Burbank called Electronic Sunshine between 1972 - 1975. What a fun woody and I had a 327 vette motor and power glide. I think Jay actually stopped by before he was famous to show me a car he bought from the Recycler. I sold it for two grand in a pinch. I still have the matching 1939 GMC carryall, three seats and windows like a woody but a lot less wood, just the window frames and tailgate are wood. I paid fifteen dollars for the GMC carryall off a guy who lived near S.Victory Blvd. it may have been So-Cal speed shop truck in the fifties. It has a Studebaker overdrive and a big radiator for running in the desert. Even these carryalls are super expensive now. At least they don't squeak. There were all kinds of panels, pickups and vintage cars around the shop and on Van Nuys Blvd. on Wed night back then. I had a forty coupe with a Hemi I sold for three hundred as I had no parking spots. Wish I had kept the woody buy fifty thousand for wood is worth it but expensive, True story, did buy these hacks for three hundred and less back then especially if the owner was getting drafted to Viet Nam.and had to sell quick.
17:35 that’s actually called “Finger Joint”.
Tongue and Groove is used to edge join wood. "Finger Joint" as pointed out above, is used to join wood end to end. It is actually used often in cheaper wood construction so that scraps can be joined rather than expensive longer pieces. If painted, you never notice.
Finger jointed wall studs are often straighter than solid wood studs.
Thank you for point it out I hate to be a stickler but that is a finger joint and Jay is so cool wouldn't want to be a hater.Finger joint makes it easier to fit different curves of wood together and add's strenght vs bending one long piece of wood by steaming it.And it will stay that way for a longer period of time.also crossing the grain of the wood makes it stronger and dowling it is better than screws.I bet the guy who built the wood didn't use any screws in the final build other than to fasten metal parts.
And that is because the wood used today is stress wood, that is, it is not the nice formed wood from straight tree trunks. That wood is expensive and studding is the lesser quality wood. If you go buy studs in the big box stores, it is junk wood. If you don't nail it into a wall quick, it will start to pull and warp right away. Much of it has to be sorted through and 10-15% discarded or used for the short cross pieces as fire breaks, which also serve to pull the twisted studs in line.
I have the studs from the big box store, what you call “junk wood”, in my storage for months, they do not warp right away. You have to know which ones to choose.
The reason the wood in the car in the video has finger joints has nothing to do with bending or warping or junk wood or curves or anything. I believe it was used to closely replicate how the car was made in the factory when it was new. This is the type of wood Ford Company used in auto manufacturing.
thoroughly enjoyed this!
love your show Jay!
keep it old school
The work these restores do on these cars amazes me, I salute you all.
Ok so its super expensive to build, and you dont really wanna drive it, dont wanna have it in the sun long and no rain..soooo whats the point..hahaaa...
I don't think I could drive one of these beautiful cars on the public roads, I'd constantly fear somebody crashing into me. That would take away the fun of it.
Jay currently owns *130* cars, and *93* motorcycles, housed in three separate hangars. Source : LA Times interview, July 14, 2014… Just thought I'd pass that on, since a lot of people ponder the exact figure. And I've seen some wild ones.
Of course i knew he had a lot of cars, i am shocked he has soooo many motorcycles though.
SillyPuddy2012
He has over 215 cars now.
Mike Samra That's a big jump, do you have a source for that?
That was my bad..I was thinking of Hartough's Ford collection and I wasn't paying attention..Leno does have 169 cars tho from what I read on Wiki but who knows with him.
blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/08/29/worlds-largest-private-ford-collection-replacing-its-pre-war-cars-with-post-war/
@Mike Samra 169 cars that his wife knows about! lol
"Uniquely California experience"?? Jay! We've got woodies coming out the wazoo here in Michigan!! You forget we were the capital of wooden boat building!! So woodie cars are greatly loved here!! And there are a lot!! One of my favorites locally was a '53 Buick wagon woodie!! Yes, you do have to care for them but just like a boat, if cared for properly, will last a lifetime!
BUICK Woody?
looks like a sauna.
A sauna on wheels! lol
I always look forward to your videos Jay. Thank you for sharing such a great car!
OK, give me an education. I have built living room furniture and built kitchen cabinets, as well as several other wood working projects. I find it hard to believe the claim of how much cost/labor to rebuild the wood. It just doesn't seem like it should be that difficult. With the right tooling and the ability to make jigs, I just can't see the steep cost. I would thing for as many hobbyist woodworkers out there that there is, rebuilding a woody would be a very popular thing to do. To me, it would be much easier to rebuild the wood, than rebuilding the sheet metal.
Didn't he say something like 50 coats of clearcoat? Don't know how much the material costs but the time must be through the roof.
Yeah, I'm thinking that is a load of crap too. It's probably hickory, not something like ipe or padauk.
Well the red car is made of mahogany, so I think that is part of the reason it is so expensive.
The 48 town and country had mahogany, the one they are driving is not. When varnish is done correctly, it is mixed with 90% mineral spirits for the first coat. Dry. Sand. Clean. 80%. Repeat. Because the labor is so intensive, it has become more common to use a penetrating epoxy first, then build the varnish on top of it. 2 things break varnish down heat & uv. I got wood garage doors varnished & it took over 4,000 hrs to get it done.
well, for some people that can do the work themselves, you might do it cheaper with the cheaper wood. With cypress or teak it would cost way more, that wood is expensive as hell. You'd also have to have all the equipment to make consistent joints. Back in the day when the skills to do the wood were plentiful, it was actually cheaper to do the wood, that's one of the reasons they did it that way. Now, the tools and experience are hard to find. Making furniture or cabinets really doesn't give you the experience you would need, but it would be helpful of course. there are more joints in a small area then in all of most furniture pieces, and they all have to work together. there is very little margin for error. I have not done one of these, but have seen it done up close. At the time, I couldn't have helped anyway, I didn't have the skills then, this was back in my early 20's.
That's not tongue and groove but a finger joint that they emphasized on the wood.
THANK YOU JAY A FORD MOTOR IN A FORD I AGREE
Personally i love restomods, you get the best of both worlds
Hats off for this beautiful car.
My question is wood does not look like any mahogany I have worked with, why so blonde?
Respectfully, Bill
Mafia 2 anyone? :D
Not mahogany. Its maple.
Send 'em to Lithuania. We'll get the wood done for 5k USD :)
It might be ok to have ONE old car converted to a new drive train but I think an old car loses its nostalgia entirely when you do that to it.
Id rather have it with the original motor and drive train even if it had a rod knocking in it.....but hey.....that's just me.
These old cars were only original once and they will never be the same. Keep it and preserve it for history`s sake.....the sound, the smell, the feel.
I hate that car now.
js
The joint Jay points to at 3:26 and 17:38 is fairly simple to make with the right machinery. It's called a "finger joint".
Yes, and tongue and groove is joining side edge to edge. Finger joints are end to end joints.
+The March Hare
Jay knows CARS.... Not Wood! LOL
You always put a grin on our faces. To see them driven is a thrill for all viewers. You have taken us all on many adventures that we would have missed.
Lesbian carpentry "Tongue in Groove" ;)
I know that I'm just a bad car guy for this, but long before seeing a woodie scrapped, I'd build a body out of pallets.
We all like nice things, but it's nice to have functional nice things, where you don't have to give TOO many fucks. Do it nicely, but don't forget that it's just a crate balanced on the car - you could build a nice looking one in a few weekends with supplies from any hardware store - then you can take it out in the sun, you can drive it to the beach, you don't have to worry if it rains, you can just enjoy the thing - it'll get a neat patina, and if you need, you can always pick up more woodie materials behind HEB.
It's nice workmanship and I know people gotta get paid, but the original body doesn't even look that nice, it's sort of overkill to do it in such perfect detail, it's pretty because wood is pretty, not because it's a nice shape - it's an ugly shape.
Am I a poor and naive jerk? Yes. But you have a fucking thirty grand shipping crate on wheels. It was meant to be cheap, it could be done suffciently and still cheap.
***** The wood was actually maple. The station wagon would have had mahogany for the panels and maple for the framework from the factory.
WHATS THAT SMALL GREY CAR ALWAYS SITTING IN THE BACKGROUND????
Ford Festiva Shogun
/watch?v=B77ufAzVRWw Heres a vid of Jay talking about it :)
Both Peugeot and Renault had very similar cars in production for a few years in the early 80's, for their rally efforts: A giant engine where the rear seat used to be. They were the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 and the Renault 5 Turbo and Turbo 2.
Jack B was
Wonderful segment. Beautiful restoration. Great builder that I would call an artisan and an owner that seems like the guy you would like to have as a neighbor. You know this is the kind of car that could make you jealous of the owner. Me, I'm glad that there are guys out there and can afford to restore such a car, and do . . . better than when new on the showroom floor, I'm sure . . . so we who can't can vicariously enjoy the ownership that we can never have. Certainly triggers childhood memories. Thank you Jay. As always, top notch. Oh, and thank you Mr. Johnson for preserving an icon of a bygone age. Again, a wonderful segment.
Johnson with a woodie that's a hot rod with a nice stiffening package.
The paint and those white wall tyres 😍 The way he describes it, it is like a driving piece of fine furniture 😊
Sweet looking restomod. I like something that looks as original as when it came from the factory, but mechanically, it's a totally different animal.
when it is gettin cold you can put the whole car into the stove
You can see the owner of the car with a matching shirt
Those color combinations are delicious.
I'm in LOVE with that TEAL color mixed with that light mahogany combination.
I had a trusty old BRONCO with that same teal color, and it's such a unique and not flashy color, that I didn't expect people to notice (but later at a competition, I nearly won because of the color :P).
9 years and all that money and only drives 500 miles SMH
yea its lame, a lot of guys are like that. Buy a car/bike and 4 years later only got 1000 miles on it.
if i spent 300k i probably wouldnt drive it at all.
Car wrecks _are_ still a thing, sadly. I lost Grandpa's 84 Caprice this September 2017.
Very nice video. Nice cars! I like the restomod philosophy.
All that wood work reminds me of older sail boats. Very classy.
I love the green one. It’s absolutely beautiful.
we had the morris minor woody in Scotland, go for about £10K
Restomod is the penultimate combination of past glory and modern power, safety, and reliability. The '37 Woodie is a rare and worthy car resurrected to new and greater life; a life that will go forward for many centuries - or more. Future generations will savor more than we do the fine art and beauty of the automobile in all its splendid forms.
Loved the yacht-like woodwork.
Bravo Scott, Jay, and Eric for making this happen.
penultimate means second from the last.
Very nice workmanship /Art of carpentry and auto mechanics, a big up to all involved in such resto's and as always to Jay and the team for the documenting.
Roflmao - Eric Johnson with a woody!
sounds good for 4 mufflers
My dear Grandfather was in the hardwood lumber and veneer business and he had a 1942 Packard 120 woody wagon.
It had factory A/C and the radio was in a narrow Walnut cabinet that was mounted over the transmission tunnel in front of the rear seats.
I was born in 1946 and was fascinated by that car and when PaPa died in 1961 I pled with my Dad to claim the Packard but it didn’t happen.
I’ll always remember the spare tires were mounted in the running boards ahead of the front doors and were adorned with chrome strips that spelled out sor conditioned in script font!
Just think …. 80 years ago automotive “bling” was made of wood …. African Mahogany plywood for the flat panels and White Ash lumber for framing.
Such memories for a pre-teen boy!!
My dear Grandfather was in the hardwood lumber and veneer business and he had a 1942 Packard 120 woody wagon.
It had factory A/C and the radio was in a narrow Walnut cabinet that was mounted over the transmission tunnel in front of the rear seats.
I was born in 1946 and was fascinated by that car and when PaPa died in 1961 I pled with my Dad to claim the Packard but it didn’t happen.
I’ll always remember the spare tires were mounted in the running boards ahead of the front doors and were adorned with chrome strips that spelled out sor conditioned in script font!
Just think …. 80 years ago automotive “bling” was made of wood …. African Mahogany plywood for the flat panels and White Ash lumber for framing.
Such memories for a pre-teen boy!!
Kind of takes the fun out of it when you have to spend so much time explaining and rationalizing modifying your rare and valuable car. I do believe there are some rodders who do it for the attention.
Love it, the ending Jay reminded me of that program California's Gold, except (in fond way), Jay Leno would have been a less abrasive host I've always found Leno's personality on camera one other hosts should emulate.
As many beautiful days California has, I'm suprised Jay doesn't have a "Woodie" in his garage. Beautiful automobile!😊
Beautiful workmanship
My Dad and I built a 40 Ford coupe deluxe. Our first frame off build. We kept the body completely straight! Boxed the frame for anti-twist. 350 Chevy (sorry) Turbocharged WITH Nitrous! Kenne Bell switch pitch transmission! Electronically controlled vs vacuum as designed. Drives like a normal 2300 stall tranny until you flip the switch and the vains in the converter go to 3000 grab! Which means NO turbo lag! 9” Ford rear end. Drive all day in the summer with no overheating! Put the 4:11 gears in the back with Drag Slicks , hit the Nitrous button and it did 13.04 @ 110 with wheel spin at Bandimere Speedway at over a mile above sea level. 4 page article in Street Rodder magazine entitled “Happy Fathers Day”!
Gorgeous looking, I can’t say enough about how I like them. Thanks for letting me see them.
fords in fords..thank you jay..and the dudes that did those RIGHT :)
The English produced woodies too I think.Ford V8 60s,Jowett Bradford’s,Morris’s for example Morris Minor Travellers,probably more examples by speciality carriage makers.The big years for this in UK would have been1940s-50s.
The 37 Ford Wagon is a copy of mine that I owned since 1984...wish I could show you...Eric's 37 was right hand drive.check out Wavecrest Woodies poster 1994 or 95....
Great craftsman`s skills have altered the QUALITY OF LIFE world wide. The ability to think, reason, experiment ,fail, and repeat the process until success is achieved has totally transformed the world with greatest improvements during the last century. Hopefully it will always be used for beneficial means!
An Amazing car to see again! Both of the "Woodies" are simply Awesome to look at. Thanks for this Great show for all of "US 0dler" Generation & 0f Course the Younger 0ne t00................=)
Beautiful car and incredible craftsmanship!!
I don't see myself owning such car as wood is a pain to maintain in decent condition due to sunlight, temp changes and moisture
Ford's should ALWAYS be powered by a Ford, same with Chevy and mopars!!! That's just me, if for some reason you restore an import, then a small block Chevy or Ford or a big block mopar!!! Go America!!!
Woodies were often the most expensive cars offered not the cheapest. Ford sent there cars unfinished by rail to Iron Mountain Michigan to have the wooden body's made and then shipped back to Dearborn to finish them. These cars were popular with Country Clubs, Ski Lodges and Golf courses thru out the New England States so the east coast had a fair share of the selling market. By the late 50's early 60's there were so many poorly maintained and cheap wooden cars around the younger generation created a cult around surfing using them. My Dad and I ended up selling a 1942 Mercury Woody Wagon we had started to restore to a Collector down the road from Jay's (Nick Alexander). These cars had some amazing wood work in them.
Like others, I bought a 1940 Ford Woody in San Jose, CA, in 1962. $200.00! I was 16 and as often happens, my parents thought that it was junk and I had to get rid of it within weeks. Baaaad parents.
Clearly these have been very well done but I'm just not into the woody thing. Not only is wood an inferior material for automotive body work, wood that is exposed like this will certainly not last very long unless it's rarely if ever driven, only ever driven in the most ideal conditions possible, kept in climate controlled storage and treated/protected meticulously.
To pay $30-60k just to have this sort of woodwork taking the place of body panels even though it will undoubtedly expand, contract and be permanently adversely affected by any rain, humidity, sunlight, heat, cold, etc just exemplifies more money than brains. I'm not in the business of telling people what they should and shouldn't do with their money, I'm just saying that this seems a bit pointless to me. It's sort of a bad idea that has been executed pretty well. You did a good job but it's still a bad idea.
Strangely, there were quite a few woodies running around town in Chicago in the 50's and 60's. Not in the numbers found on the coasts, but more than one would expect. Probably "summer" cars for those who could afford more than two vehicles.
I prefer Ford, though there was nothing like the Town & Country, and Restomod was and is still the finest of all. I still favor the Ford, everybody loves woody's Food and just the Enviroment you just can't beat.
Every beach song I know is running through my head right now. Great car
We have a Green Woody in Ft. Worth, Tx...
Same location as the Cobra's, Ferrari's, GT's, Lotus, etc, that I mentioned during the Cobra episode...
I have to say that $30,000 for the wood seems high. There's an episode of Wheeler Dealer where Mike needs to fix the wood on a car in GB and he runs down to a shop that's set up to do it all. He had patterns and blanks and tools for every car known to man. Judging from the setup, $30,000 was not in the picture, ever.
Here's the link. ruclips.net/video/LFd8f1mdL90/видео.html
BEEP BEEP ! First time I ever herd of taking the Chevy out and put A ford back in ?????I seen tons of em at cruise night's and car shows in the Midwest.So there.
I like your 1937 Ford Woodie Restomod that you filmed. Jay U probable like Woodies on the Wharf event in Santa Cruz, Ca..You might like this video. ruclips.net/video/Jt6xI3Cn-6Q/видео.html Woodies on the Wharf. About 200 cars at the event with surfboards on the roof.
There was a good reason why they put those heavy doors on the Chryslers speeds had increased. You have those nice thin light doors on your Ford woody and a 5.0 Mustang engine under the hood 🤪👍🏻✨ Good luck at 85 on those California highways with no seatbelts😂😂😂
an FYI, I had the worst experience with the big classic car dealer in Denver, they always list on ebay,
absolutely the worst business experience I have ever had, my "flawless " restored car they sold me was a cobbled together rust bucket, I have discovered may people burned by these guys
Comment about the strength of the Woody’s wood. Well back in the day we used to put the covered wagon’s in the garage at night. It’s a little tough though fulfilling manifest destiny traveling from east to west. Specially when you get hit with those flaming arrows 🤪👍🏻✨
If you read this jay leno seems your favorite driver is the black 75 duster I also had a black one same vinyl I believe I drove that thing I’ll tell you it was a 318 with a few small budget mods wish I had a few of your molars my favourite car besides the 41 or 2 Willis is a 75 max wedge Belvedere polara you know the style in sure you have one it would be so fun to have one of them but my dreams are fading at 60 nothing bad about dreaming I think it keeps me going good video jay
Those cars are amazing, but they come with the same problem as the ultra expensive hyper cars, you are to afraid to even breath around them let alone to drive them.
There's a ton of 49-51 Ford woodies in CA> Pop had a 49 when i was a kid.
I m certainly not attempting to be "COY" , but that Method of Joining wood on the upper part of the door on Johnson's woody is called fingering or a finger joint. (because it looks like when you join your fingers together on both hands)
Ford had what they called birds eye maple ,little specks unique little spots on the maple wood on the fords woody wagons,used up late 40's.😮
Those are beautiful
We are not suppose to call you an animal Jay? Big Dog Garage kind of gives a clue. Those wood joints are called finger joints. The wood properly done can take abuse otherwise there would be headaches with wooden ships and boats. All the things they are worried about a wood Chris Craft has to deal with all the time.
The Johnson with the Woodie - you can whatever you want on the Internet. NBC would delete that joke for sure. Beautiful cars, but only in California. Thanks Jay.
Weren't the original woodies called beach wagons built for the Boson's Shore and Beverly Massachusetts.
oh I forget my 55 Chevy it's betup but run like a top you can throw it around and ask for more and I do have one of these wagon on this video it's a 37 Ford to but I think it's to far gone the frame as Ben welded and body is going back to the Earth but if I can save it I will I like getting cars from junk yards
My dad bought 1931 Model A with Model B engine & V8 hydraulic brakes in Texas 1955