Thirty nine Deluxe's aren't synonymous with high dollar price tags, though this superb example was for sale for $169k.

The car parks of the motels and hotels in Santa Cruz never looked better. This is just a small sample of the hundreds of cars that visited.

Ray Drysdale's '38 Deluxe Wagon has all the mod-cons, including air con, auto, and contrasting timber panels.

How low can your lumber yard go? This '40 uses air bags to their best advantage - to get it way down in the sawdust.

Steve Von Pinnon's custom bodied '34 Woodie shows what a little imagination and a pile of pine can become.

Jim & Ellen Gonsalves were back again, in their perfect '34. They say it has 85 HP, but the Halibrands & stainless IFS are dead give-aways - its a rod.

Chopped and well detailed, Louis Steiner's '50 Ford woodie is another mild\wild custom version of the breed.

It may have looked like this in a lot of supermarket car parks in the early fifties. Or not.

Without dwelling on the high cost too much - this Magoo created '40 Deluxe Wagon was just $158k. The 350\400 outfitted woodie has a body by Wood 'n' Carr.

Marty Behrens toured down from Corvallis, Oregon, in his smooth '36, with the carved Tiki gear shift knob.

If paint looks interesting with a patina, how about (almost) sand blasted wood?

Say you had a very rough 4 door, and you wanted something very different, then you might do what Richard Harris did with his '37 Chevy.

Another custom bodied early Ford - the deuce two-door (it ain't a Tudor) wagon looks as though Henry should have considered this style.

The characteristic fog is rolling back now, revealing this part of the car park of woodies.

Dallas Paul's '40 Ford is from Lodi, CA, and uses a mostly stock body and fine detailing to  make a point.

Rocky Brown's '33 has incredibly straight panels, and flawless candy apple red paint, but how would we describe the  door handles? Shaved? Pruned?

Whereas this '37 is a mild custom, by comparison. Note the tree-form handles and rear view mirrors.

Another mildly customised version, this '50 Ford Station Wagon looks great in black.

'All 1940 models, two of them are almost the same colour, but they each individually styled, in the best rodding tradition.

These woodies are a little unconventional, in that they don't have wood, though maybe we just didn't look hard enough. Note the '51 tag.

The Harris's Chevy wagon is a chopped, sliced & diced version, replete with ultra clean & chromed late SBC.

Frank Wheeler's '32's luggage area is a showcase of fine wood-workmanship, typical of almost all the cars present.

What do you call a woodie without any wood? Flacid?Nekkid?

This pair of restored Fords show the lineage as it evolved, from '28 to '40. The overall styling & mechanical changes that took place in that 12 years is profound.

The Town & Country moniker is one that is particularly evocative - as Darrel Shea's '47 Chrysler illustrates.