1937 Plymouth Suburban Woodie

1937 Plymouth PT50 Westchester Suburban Woodie Station Wagon for sale on BaT Auctions - ending February 28 (Lot #66,930) | Bring a Trailer

 

Lovely car. Sadly even though at $33,000 I imagine it won’t sell for what it should. These have just not been bringing in the big dollars like they once did. I bet we might see 50-60, but the seller won’t sell, or he’ll bite his upper lip and let it go.

 

Yeah, it's just past its prime for people who remembered these cars new or had one they drove around when they were a few years old. Same with the tri-5 Chevy fans, people who bought these new or remember them from childhood are all dead or very very few in number and no longer driving, so to the rest of the world it's just a neat old car that they don't have any major emotional attachment to, driving the prices down. It's why '80s Hondas and GM '80s G-bodies are so ridiculously priced now, the people who remember them and had a great time in them 35 years ago now have buying power and are willing to spend a bit to relive being 19 again.

I mean even my mom joked with her dad about how old these cars were 25-30 years ago and he agreed with her as he wasn't a huge fan of the wood body style (he liked the late '40s Buick fastbacks that were all metal) and he was born in 1912, so he remembered them new and into old used cars.

 

Agreed. I just bought my ‘57 210 station wagon from the 2nd owner who purchased it, and re did it back in 1979. He’d had the car since then and is 85 this year and decided he wasn’t up to driving it like he had. Those folks that had fond memories of ‘50’s cars are slowly fading out. I guess that will be us with the ‘60’s and ‘70’s stuff we grew up in, and learned to drive on. There is a season turn turn turn.

 

Bid to $42,000on 2/28/22, no sale.
I was curious how this would compare to the 1937 Ford that was on BAT in the past couple weeks. it bid to $38,000 with no sale.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1937-ford-woody-wagon-deluxe/

 

Personally surprised that the woodies held value as long as they did.