1942 Ford Super De Luxe “Woodie” Station Wagon
Civilian automobile production at Ford came to a halt in February 1942 (with the company completing its final passenger cars around February 10), cutting the model year to roughly four months.
Of the roughly 160,000 ’42 Fords built before the shutdown, just 5,483 were Super De Luxe station wagons, making the 1942 the rarest Ford woodie produced in the model’s 1936-1948 run.
Ford updated the design substantially from 1941, fitting new one-piece front fenders, a wider horizontal-bar grille, and a reconfigured dashboard with round gauges in place of the previous year’s layout.
The wood body, assembled at Ford’s Iron Mountain plant in Michigan, uses hard maple framing with contrasting mahogany panels (construction that demanded more experienced hand labor than any other model in the Ford lineup).
This example is finished in Florentine Blue with a brown interior, and the rear doors feature roll-up windows in place of the sliding panes used on earlier wagons.
Power comes from the 221 CI flathead V8, rated at 90 horsepower and backed by a three-speed manual transmission. At $1,125, the Super De Luxe wagon was the most expensive model in Ford’s 1942 catalog.
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