Selected/Technical Articles

A father, son and friends bring back to life a Cantrell-bodied 1931 DeSoto SA Six, likely the only survivor.

When Debbie Becker said that to her husband, Phil wasted no time jumping on his latest car project.

After owning many Model As, a woodiephile finally has a 1930 Ford Station Wagon.

Once an absolute basket case, in the early 1990s, this phantom woodie has been reborn through the efforts of two dedicated woodieologists.

In the dying days of U.S. woodie production, Willys-Overland tried to to buck the trend with a 1953 prototype.

When a second 1950 DeSoto Custom came up for sale, in pieces, an experienced restorer couldn't resist revisiting his recent past.

Despite the early morning fog, this California woodie staple breaks with tradition to prep for next year's National Meet.

As the 7th National Meet celebrating the NWC’s 50th Anniversary was wrapping up Sunday morning in Kalamazoo, Mich., I was counting down the minutes until the meet was officially over, and I’d get my life back, so to speak.

My introduction to woodies was in high school, in the 1960s. My best friend’s older brother had a ’51 Ford woodie.

From mountain top and south to North Island, and everywhere else, on May 18

This story begins in July of 1977 in Vermont. I was a 19-year-old on vacation with my girlfriend Cindy and her family.

Alex DiLena is a rather intuitive person who rarely plans his day, yet when he presses the button to start his 1947 Mercury woodie (that morning last autumn), his next three days are more or less set.

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Bleaching wood is accomplished by using one or both of two chemical processes designed specifically for wood.

I learned everything that follows in this updated ‘how-to’ dissertation from hands-on experience, trial and error, and experimentation. I have been working on woodies since the fall of 1961, a length of time that is hard for me to even imagine.