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October 2004, issue 8

Wood Vibrations Occasionally Published by San Diego Woodies, a Chapter of the National Woodie Club

25th annual

THE WOODIE BUS

Local agencies catch the Wavecrest wave. (see story on page 6)

Cruisin’ the Pacific Coast Highway—Historic Highway 101


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A Special Thank You to David and Diane Doherty

After providing decades of leadership and hard work that has led Wavecrest to be the largest, and one of the most enjoyed, gatherings of woodies in the world, David & Diane have turned the reins over to SDW and are relocating to Idaho. We all wish them well and look forward to seeing them each year at Wavecrest.

As usual, David (left) & Diane (center) lead the effort to package goodie bags, posters and t-shirts.

Nina Delaney admires David’s latest creation, the 2004 Wavecrest poster. David has done posters for Wavecrest for 15 years since 1989.

The raffle surfboards, like this “one of a kind” Han-sen, feature many Wavecrest posters created by David.

David imparts some of his years of Wavecrest knowledge to Charles Furman during a break in the packaging work, or he is asking Charles where the restroom is?


San Diego Woodies Leadership

President Jim Esposito [email protected]

Vice President Mike Merkt [email protected]

Treasurer Pat Dirkschneider [email protected]

Web Master Luann Esposito [email protected]

Membership/Secretary Maggie Dirkschneider [email protected]

Technical Advisor Ron Heiden [email protected]

Art Director Dave Doherty [email protected]

Newsletter Editor Charles Furman [email protected]

Merchandising Barry Marassi [email protected]

Social Director Meg Merket [email protected]

San Diego Woodies PO Box 130686 Carlsbad, CA 92013 [email protected]

2004 Club Officers San Diego Woodies

President’s Message Dear Woodie Club Members: This woodie season has been a year of milestones and fantastic events, including the 30th anniversary of the National Woodie Club, the 10th anniversary of Woodies on the Wharf in Santa Cruz and finally, the 25th annual Wavecrest Woodie Meet in Encinitas. Members of San Diego Woodies, as the new stew-ards of Wavecrest, exemplified the Aloha spirit of camaraderie, friendship and welcome to everyone who attended this year’s meet. I personally want to thank and commend each of you for embracing the task of organizing Wavecrest and for your dedication, help and untiring effort in making this year’s show a memo-rable experience for all of our participants and spectators. Over the past few weeks the club email has received resounding compliments and thanks from throughout the woodie community and it is due to the efforts of our hardwork-ing volunteers. I am proud of our club’s accomplishment in defining Wavecrest as the San Diego Woodies’ primary event and I am encouraged about its future as a result of this year’s success. I welcome your comments about how you think the event should evolve now that Wavecrest is the responsibility San Diego Woodies.

I hope you enjoy your fall and winter season. We will continue our monthly club meetings and will keep you informed of club activities via email and the website. If your photo isn’t yet on the Club Cars section of the website, please forward it to me so we can post your smiling face and your car. Keep Crusin’, Jim Esposito

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Some SDW Wavecrest Volunteers


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Wavecrest Stuffing Party volunteers work hard . . . .


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. . . . and play hard

One Saturday in late August saw 40 members of San Diego Woodies gather at the home of Charles Furman and Tamara Geiger to prepare for Wavecrest. The first day was devoted to stuff-ing the 300 goodie bags with neat stuff, and packaging the unique double-sided 25th Anniversary Wavecrest poster created by David Doherty In the shade of the garage and out of the blistering sun, a frisky crowd of SDW members labored to stuff the bags and posters. There were stuffers, suppliers for the stuffing lines, stackers who put the finished items in the correct location, cheerleaders, & subs for tired line workers. Others kept cold bottled water coming for the hot and thirsty workers. Since family dogs had been invited, there were about a half dozen curious bow wows checking out the busy scene and adding to the happy buzz of big work getting done well. Before we knew it, the bags and posters were done! Everyone then kicked back for pizza, cold drinks, and a swim in the lagoon pool, or a hot tub in the island-like setting. Pleasant conversation about surf, cars, “the old days”, and most everything else, made the afternoon complete. All of this was done to the sounds of vintage surf music provided by DJ, and San Diego Woodies member Rick Seborg. A week later, the T-shirts arrived and volunteers again gathered, sorted, folded, and boxed hun-dreds of the Wavecrest shirts. With many hands, these tasks are easily done so that the Wave-crest visitors could enjoy the coveted items. It is so gratifying to see the club members pitching in to make short work of these “behind the scenes” tasks. Always, more volunteers are needed to make Wavecrest the success that has been, so if you have not worked on a committee yet, plan to do it next year. It’s FUN!


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For the next two years you may see a large bus that looks like a WOODIE tooling along the 101! The Historic 101 Association, the Downtown Encinitas Merchants Association, and the North County Trans-portation Department joined forces to promote the area of Historic 101 and the beach communi-ties of North County by transforming two of their clear air buses to look like woodies, the icon of Southern California. The introduction of the bus and a press confer-ence was held at the Carlsbad Seapoint Resort on 101 just across from South Carlsbad beach. Frank & Nina Delaney brought their 1941 Ford Woodie to display what a real woodie looks like and to represent the San Diego Woodies Club. Frank gave a short talk covering the San Diego Woodie Club, Wavecrest, the history of the woodies, and their importance as a symbol of the Southern California beach scene. The woodie/bus design, or wrap as it is called, was done by Leucadia artist, Fred Caldwell, who is a regular at Wavecrest. The details are really authentic, from stainless buttons, to wood grain, to surf-boards atop; and it include features from many woodies Fred had seen at Wave-crest and around the 101. If you look closely, you can see that the bus/woodie has three doors on each side, the wheels of the bus match perfectly where those of a woodie should be, and the number of the bus is 1101

North County bus catches the Wavecrest wave


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Wavecrest week begins with Rods and Woodies

Meg & Mike Merkt are open for business The crowd gathers to see all the Rods and Woodies

On Thursday evening, Wavecrest week kicks off with a gathering on the Pacific Coast Highway (Historic Highway 101) in Encinitas. There visitors are treated to a mixture of hot rods, woodies, and other vintage cars, while live surf music fills the air. There are a hundred or more cars, and because it is Wavecrest week, there are 40 to 50 woodies.

Wavecrest week continues with surfing at San Onofre

The Southern California Woodie Club continues the festivities of Wavecrest week by hosting a surf out-ing and lunch at the famous surf break at San On-ofre. Here the old days are relived in story and deed. In the photo on the left, you can see the surfers hanging out on the beach much as they did “back in the day”. There they sit “talking story” about the old days, and graphically describing that huge wave that “tubed” them that very morning.

“You shoulda been there.” Some things have changed though. The beer doesn’t flow as freely. The joints don’t bend as easily. The 28 inch waist is a thing of the past. And, the $100 woodies have been re-placed by the $100,000 woodies (check out the cars to the left). Nonetheless, it is a great outing and the Southern California Woodie Club does a great job.


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Wavecrest is on . . . For the 25th time

The Moonlight Beach parking lot was full with 306 woodies

Pontiac with picnic gear The “Mayor’s Choice” Ford Shoe Box woodie 1946 Ford Sportsman with Greg Noll surfboard

Rare 1939 Packard Woodie “Under Construction” 1941 Ford stamp car


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the 25th Wavecrest continues

Big Wave Legend Greg Noll autographs pictures for his many fans. Greg was a very popular guest

The line up Food was good

Oldsmobile Alley

Jim Ferdinand tells the “Hard Luck Award” winning story of seeing the wheel off his woodie pass him on the freeway.

Jim’s advice, “check your lug nuts.”


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My name is Dick Erickson from Minneapolis, Minnesota. My wife, Nancy, and I drove our ‘49 Ford custom Woodie 5000 miles (round trip) to this year’s Wavecrest event. I am writing to give you our story and suggest that maybe a new award category be created for the pure adventure of driving that far.

Our attendance to Wavecrest was a commitment we made to my brother-in-law, Ron Larson, on his death bed. Ron started building this car over 10 years ago, but colon can-cer took him before he could complete it. One of the things he had hoped to do was to drive it to Wavecrest. Nancy and I made a commitment to complete the car and make the trip in Ron's memory, and we did.

We left Minneapolis on Sept. 11 and spent our 1st night in Nebraska. We spent a couple of days in Colorado before heading south to New Mexico. At a rest stop near the Arizona bor-der our in-tank fuel pump died. We were pulled by my friend's ‘55 Chevy Nomad 70 miles to the next town for repairs.

A few days later coming down the mountains 40 miles outside of San Diego, one of my rear Coker wide whitewalls exploded throwing me into a spin on the freeway. We got a replace-ment Coker from Long Beach and installed it in the parking lot at Wavecrest.

On the way home from San Diego, one of the front Coker tires delaminated just outside of Las Vegas. The next day I went to Sears and bought 4 Goodyear run of the mill tires to get us home. Needless to say I am having serious discussions with the nice folks at Coker tires!

(Dick & Nancy Erickson in Utah without Coker Wide White-Wall tires)

(In Breckenridge, with friend's 55 Nomad and Coker WWW tires)

Wavecrest from Minnesota the hard way. . . a journey of brotherly love

(Dick and Nancy’s woodie at Wavecrest)


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Wavecrest activities at the host hotel

Probably the last notable incident was that we got caught in the first snow of the year in the higher ele-vations of the Colorado Rockies. We drove for 100 miles or so in a heavy wet snow which tested our tires, heater, defrosters and pa-tience.

We northern street rodders have a saying about problems on the road; "it's all part of the adventure!". (Note the snow caked on the front of the car. How many of us would drive our woodie in these conditions?)

Wavecrest from Minnesota the hard way. . . a journey of brotherly love (continued)

SDW Sales Team with Wavecrest Goodies Greg Noll and friends

Some of the Wavecrest crowd ready to party into the night at the event dinner


Wavecrest - Historic Highway 101 Cruise

Shown in the left picture, the Woodie Bus led the cruise down Historic Highway 101


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Other Activities of SDW Members

Reggie & Maureen Keyohara, Frank & Nina Delaney, and Jim & Ruth Harris competed in the “NY to Paris” automobile race against other vintage cars throughout North SD County. Report is that it was a blast.

Mike & Meg Merkt celebrated their anniversary at Woodies on the Wharf 2004

Monthly SDW meeting held at the Longboarder Cafe in Oceanside, CA across from the Calif. Surf Museum

Some of the SDW members who joined in the Grand St. Cruise in Escondido


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Are you and your woodie on the SDW Website? Luann Esposito has done a marvelous job of making the San Diego Woodies website a great source for on-line information and club pride. (www.sandiegowoodies.com) In addition to info on upcoming events and pictures of past events, the website has a “Club Cars” section that features our members and their woodies. This is a great way for each of us to put a name or woodie with a face, or just to see what a great variety of woodies we have in our club. Please help Luann complete this “Club Car” section. If you and your woodie are not currently listed, it’s because we didn’t have a photo. Although, you do not have to be listed, we would like to have all our members’ woodies shown. If you have a digital photo you would like included, email it to Luann at [email protected]. If you don’t have a digital picture, let Luann know and we will be happy to send someone by to take one. It does not matter if your woodie is complete or not. Pictures of woodies under construction are just as interesting as those of completed woodies.

Are you one of the rare breed who owned a woodie, or regularly rode in a woodie, “back in the day”? If so, we want to hear from you. We are planning to do a feature section on our members who were a part of the initial salvation of the woodie. As most of you know, woodies had fallen from grace with the general public when metal bodied station wag-ons were introduced in the early 1950’s. High production costs and high wood maintenance were more than the general public wanted to deal with any longer, so wood bodied station wagons were well on their way to the scrap yards and extinction. Woodies fell in value, and most were being destroyed, or set aside to rot. Then came those brave souls who could only afford the few hundred dollars it took to buy a woodie. Most were saved by surfers who found these woodies ideal for hauling their longboards and buddies. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, it was not uncommon to see large numbers of woodies, in various states of disrepair, stuffed full of kids looking for waves. Whether you were a 50’s or 60’s surfer, or a mid-west kid who helped save a woodie, we want to hear from you. It doesn’t matter if the woodie was yours, your brother’s, or your buddies, we still want to hear your story. When and how was the woodie acquired? How much did it cost? What did you use it for and where? How much did you sell it for? Give us a much information as you can. We are also looking for pictures of you with the woodie “back in the day”. If you only have pictures of the woodie and separate pictures of you taken in the same period, that’s OK. We can scan old photos, if that is all you have, or email us ones you have scanned. Any story or picture that links one of our club members to a woodie in the 40’s, 50’s or 60’s is what we are looking for. Email stories to [email protected], or [email protected], or call Charles Furman at 760-213-9313 to discuss your story.

Did you cruise in a woodie in the 50’s or 60’s? If so, we want to hear from you


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It’s True—Woodie fashion plates think alike (NOTE: None of these outfits were coordinated ahead of time)

(left) SDW President Jim Esposito and SDW member Robert Christensen at 2004 Wavecrest dinner.

(left) SDW members Luann Esposito, Meg Merkt, and Karen Trulson relaxing at 2004 Woodies on the Wharf. Woodie people even match when there are not wearing surfboard or woodie clothing.

(right) Woodies on the Wharf 2004 brought together Luann Esposito, Flo Passoff, and an-other lovely young lady who this editor has not yet had the opportunity to meet.


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Occasionally Published by San Diego Woodies, a Chapter of the National Woodie Club

Chapter Meetings are held at 8:00 am - Second Saturday of the Month, locations vary. See sandiegowoodies.com for details November 6, Scottsdale, AZ - Desert Gathering. Info contact JD de Voss at 602-407-6446

upcoming events 2004 (Click "Calendar" at www.sandiegowoodies.com for more details of all upcoming events)

Moonlight Beach—September 18, 2004

Thank you to our incredible Wavecrest volunteers Brad Anderson, Dorothy Bangiola & Joe Marciano, George Benson, Tip Briney, Candy & Rocky Brown, Nancie & John Casey, Ruben & Ann Cerecedes, Candace & Robert Christensen, Karen & Bob Cox, Nina & Frank Delaney, Doug DeOliviera, JD DeVoss & Vernie Gomez, Shannon Dietor & Brian Hartley, Maggie & Pat Dirkschneider, Diane & David Doherty, Connie & Tom Dunn, Bud Elliott, Rocco Emma, Luann, Jim & Alex Esposito, Charles Furman & Tamara Geiger, Marilyn & Richard Green, Cindi & Bill Halliday, Ron Hei-den, Greg Johnson, Tim Kantrud, Maureen & Reggie Keyohara, Patti & Lee Kidwell, Darlene & John Lintz, Tom Long, Peggy & Mike Loper, Delrae & Barry Marassi, Meg & Mike Merkt, Doug Quinn, Sheila & Jack Rabell, Kathy Reinhard, Tom Rodgers, Baer & Terry Rogers, Rick, Evan & Pat Seborg, Steve Seebold, Megan Steele, Bernie & Jim Tomsovic, Marty Topper & Kathy Corey, Karen & Henry Trulson, Toby & Ann Westbrook, Nora & Ed Wright.

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