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under the Ionia label by the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company of Ionia, Michigan, which, as the name suggested, had originally made its success in producing rattan home furnishings.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- and eight-cylinder lines, in standard and deluxe trim, the wagon was the costliest 1947 Pontiac model, with even the standard eight-cylinder variant priced some $500 higher than the comparable convertible.

The Streamliner Eight Station Wagon offered here was discovered by the previous owner in California in 1991 and remained part of a carefully selected “woodie” collection until it was acquired by the consignor in 2007. Conserved within his own private collection for the past 18 years, it shows evidence of having always been a solid and intact automobile, appearing to retain much of its original body wood and to have been restored and maintained only as required over the years. The body has been refinished in the year-correct color of Asbury Green, over a light brown interior. Options and accessories include a Hydramatic transmission and dual fog lights. Both the original chassis number and trim tags are present under the hood, as they should be. At the time of cataloguing, the car’s odometer recorded 77,130 miles.

A handsomely presented wood-bodied Pontiac, ideal for either driving or showing enjoyment at local events or on tours around one’s winter property, this has much to recommend it to any connoisseur of GM products.