In 1933 Dodge introduced its first production wood-bodied station wagon, the Westchester Suburban.

For this season and the next, each Westchester Suburban was hand-built to individual customer order on a passenger car chassis by the U.S.

Body and Forging Company’s factory in Tell City, Indiana.

Survivors of these semi-custom ‘woodies’ are quite rare today.

The example offered here is unusual for having been built on the KCL light-duty truck chassis, with this Suburban bodywork by J.T.

Cantrell & Company of Huntington Station, New York.

Unlike the more utilitarian U.S.

Body and Forging, Cantrell was a highly respected coachbuilder known for the superb quality and craftsmanship of their finishes; they had earlier experience in producing custom bodies on Dodge Brothers chassis in the late Teens and early 1920s.

The body they built on this vehicle is of a unique design, with a completely different and distinctively Cantrell wood pattern than the factory Westchester Suburban.

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