Packard used curved glass in the tailgate and it is non existent. He showed me a photo of it before he took the front clip off and it was straight and complete.Īlthough this is a Buick post, the Packard Station Sedan is a favorite Woody of mine but poses huge problems as well. He has owned this one so long he really has no idea what it was like when he bought it. He loved woodies so he purchased as many as 15 over a 25 year period, then like so many, never got to even one of them. The problem is there is no wood to use as patterns. That makes it the 2nd lowest postwar Woody production (1953) from 1949 to 1953. It is a four port hole Roadmaster, one of only 420 made. Now, the 50 Woody started as a complete car with bad wood, came from Kansas.
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This car came from Southeast Iowa, the seller was wittled down to the point where it was thrown in for free (in the purchase of the 1950). As the tailgates disintegrate, I can image key pieces fall into the back area, but if that is rusted, those pieces fall away. I could not tell if there was anything else of use on the 49 as it was raining hard, and the seller was talking to me. Pete knows more then I - of the value of those window pieces. I did get about 6 photos of the 50 Roadmaster Woody, a few of the Packard. I don't know what I did before digital cameras were invented. I had to take photos with a genuine one use camera as my digitial camera died 3 months ago and my wife and daughter took her digital camera to Florida the same week. When so much is missing, it's hard to "visualize" an at least complete woody for an idea of what you are getting into.Ģnd. I have meant to talk to Bill S about the 50. It was a depressing day weatherwise and visually. The other items Bill Stoneberg mentioned are so rare as to be worth digging around in the debris of these cars, because they might just be there-things like tailgate hinges and other tailgate hardware rear seat hardware, etc. So, be my guest-go out and find some spare rear vent window frames for '49 Buick wagons! But you can't have these pictured above, because "there is obviously nothing salvageable there". If we use the general guideline of 1% being left today, that is 25 vehicles. Total Buick woody wagon production for 1949, Supers and Roadmasters combined, is less than 2500. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find '49 Buick wagon rear door vent glass frames? Obviously, you don't. On the '49, I see good windshields, windshield mouldings, and rear door vent glass frames. These cars are probably not restoreable, but I see lots of scarce and salvageable parts.