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$42,000.00

4497 Sycamore Fork Road, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33311

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Vehicle Description

Offering a station wagon was actually another one of Henry Ford's innovative ideas. He saw the demand for the aftermarket bodies made for Ford chassis and others made by companies such as Cantrell, York-Hoover and others on his Model T's. So he decided to later produce his own. Ford knew he was able to offer a wood bodied car on a large scale while competitors could not because Ford strategically opened his Iron Mountain sawmills in the Menominee River Valley under the Michigan Land, Lumber, and Iron Company, the facilities turned out just raw lumber, but later the production of components that were shipped to Briggs and Murray in Detroit. FInally in 1936 Ford opened his own wood body plant to completely assemble his own bodies. HE was able to use the water canals and rivers to transport the wood with ease to his plants during a time when transporting by land was extremely impractical. The 1933 station wagons were made of wood produced by Ford, but assembled at Murray or Briggs. Today they are very sought after, especially if they retain their original wood bodies as in 1933 only 1,654 Deluxe V8 station Wagons were built making them one of the most rare V8 Fords.

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