The immediate post-war years brought a lot of unique automotive ideas to the forefront, and the major auto and truck manufacturers were far from immune to the trend, as we see from Thomas B. Garrett's article from October 1986 on the woodie station wagon prototype that Diamond-T built in 1946. Tucker fans will get a little charge over the mention of some shenanigans involving both this wagon and that other late 1940s Chicago-based manufacturer.

From Garrett's article about the Diamond-T: "Some features were quite advanced for a 1946 woodie wagon. First, there's the all-steel roof. It would be 1949 before the industry adopted this feature as standard practice in station wagon construction. The windshield is curved and molded in one piece, also unique for its time. A streamlined, enclosed, roof-mounted spotlight is another unusual touch, as are the grille and belt moldings of burnished aluminum.

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