1950 Classic Chevrolet "Styleline Deluxe Station Wagon"

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Chevrolet offered not one but two station wagons in 1949. Until 1949, station wagon bodies had been constructed of some wood. This included all the doors and the entire roof. All wood construction was far less rigid than steel and Chevrolet started a movement in 1949 by offering a wood station wagon and an all steel 1950 Chevy wagon. The 1949 wood wagons had far less wood than pre-1949 wagons.

The 1949 Chevrolet Station Wagon production year was an appropriate transition from the wood bodied wagons to the all steel wagons starting in 1950.

At a glance both of the 1949 Chevy wood bodied and the steel bodied wagons looked identical because the steel bodied version had these areas finished in a wood grain pattern. By 1950, the wood bodied wagon was gone, but the public had apparently caught on to the fact that the 1950 Chevy wagon still in the line was actually steel, even though it looked like wood. This wood like all steel body station wagons were produced from 1950 to 1952.

1950 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe Station Wagon

The cost of the 1950 Chevrolet Deluxe Station Wagon was almost $2,000.00. The most expensive 1950 Chevrolet and this includes the 1950 Chevrolet Convertible. Model number for this wagon was 2119, body number 50-1062. Production numbers for the 1950 Chevy Deluxe Station Wagon exploded in 1950 to 166,995 cars. The identical steel wagon in 1949 had sold only 2,664 units. For 1951, the same wagon essentially unchanged sold only 23,586 units. One reason is that Ford had a whole new line of all steel wagons both 2 door and 4 door.