To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION WITHOUT RESERVE at RM Sothebys' Arizona event, 23 January 2026.

Offered Without Reserve | $40,000 - $60,000 USD Pontiac’s first post-war station wagonBuilt on the sought-after eight-cylinder chassis with handsome wooden bodyworkNicely presented in attractive colorsEquipped with the desirable Hydramatic transmission Among Pontiac’s 1947 offerings was the General Motors division’s first post-war station wagon, with handsomely designed and intricately constructed wooden bodywork to rival its corporate siblings from Buick.

Bodies were provided under the Ionia label by the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company of Ionia, Michigan, which, as the name suggested, had originally made its success in producing rattan home furnishings.

Indeed, these cars were fine furniture on wheels in the most literal sense.

Ionia would eventually become a major supplier to GM and other Detroit automakers and, in many senses, America’s king of station wagon coachbuilding.Sold in both six- ...