How about a woody?

[Mike Costigan]

The Shooting Brake term was in use long before the automobile came on the scene; by the early 1900s Albion had virtually cornered the UK market with cars like this:


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By the mid-1920s second hand quality cars like the Rolls Royce were cheap and were often converted into brakes, now usually with a fixed roof. This style was also popular in the USA, where they were known as station wagons; I think the Woody name is a post-war development used to distinguish them from steel-bodied estate cars..