Four doors. Wood paneling. Billowing smoke and deafening noise. No, I?m not roping you into a descriptive analysis of your parent?s basement during your angst-filled teen years ? I?m introducing Jeff Courtie?s 1948 Oldsmobile Woody. ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Sweet looking gasser but with those big fat front fenders they could be a handful to drive at the top end with all the air getting under the fenders and lifting and making the front wheels very light on the top end. Jimbo
That car was once known as the "worlds fastest woodie". He probably could have chosen a different body style because woodies are heavy, my '46 weighs over 4000 lbs. and not much you can do to lighten them!
Studied that feature years ago and knew that choosing a woody for a race car was kinda like swimming upstream. The great thing about it was Courtie kept upping the ante in an effort to go faster. There's a another feature in a recent mag that will definitely rekindle some memories. Street Freak, Dare to be Different, call it what you will, it's still pretty out a sight!!
I might be wrong but I think the talented Thom Taylor owned this car in recent years. Could anyone confirm this.
It is still around & sold on eb#y a few years back. Last I heard it was being restored to it's race car configuration
Yes, Thom was describing it to me once and I was thinking "You have a what now?" I don't remember it from way back when, so it was all new to me... It's a unique beast for sure!
Feel it. See it. Know it. Be it. It was and is a legend/stand alone car. Would love to cruise it (No, NSRA/GG sheep pens) and feel and hear that wood body creaking and groaning right before you nail dat beach to the flo'. And a corny 'not your father Oldsmobile' thrown in for the chucksters.
Issue #35 (Fall of 2013) of Traditional Rod & Kulture Illustrated magazine has this car as the cover. Here's the link: http://www.rodandkulture.com/
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