The Santa Cruz Woodies Club brought its wood bodied wagons back to the Grand Cypress Meadow at Asilomar Conference Grounds on Thursday, August 13, running from noon until 5 p.m. for the second annual Woodies in the Woods, held during Monterey Car Week 2026 in Pacific Grove. Owners and spectators gathered for an afternoon built around classic wood paneled wagons set beneath a canopy of Monterey pines and cypress trees.

Woodies trace their origins to the 1930s and 1940s, when wood bodied station wagons built by manufacturers such as Ford, Chevrolet, and Buick served as practical family and utility vehicles. By the 1960s, used woodies became cheap, spacious vehicles for surfers to pile in boards and gear, cementing their place in beach culture and turning once ordinary wagons into lasting icons of American car history.

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