One of the goals of the club is to provide assistance to local charities in the form of monetary donations. Woodies on the Wharf 2022 was a huge success and we want to thank all of the members, and community that supported the club and the WOW event. This support affords us the opportunity to make these donations. This year …
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Longboard legend, Don Iglesias (current SCW President) gives you a Santa Cruz surf history lesson while cruzing the Pleasure Point area of Santa Cruz in the ultimate surf machine. Riding with Don is Surf City Sandwich Owner, Paul “Fig” Figliomeni who cooks up the Lotus vegetarian burger named after Don’s limited edition surfboard hanging in the Surf City Sandwich Surf …
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Two new Santa Cruz Woodies members, Jim and Cheryl Bassett, were kind enough to send along some details of their 1949 Ford woodie. It was discovered in Dearborn, MI after 42 years of being stored in a garage. Their woodie is a special car driven by Walter Reuther to help others live a better life in the future. The woodie was the sound car …
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Our first woodie ‘trip’ was to a family dinner at an Applebee’s in downtown Santa Rosa. I was very nervous, expanding a couple trips around the block to almost five miles. Then it turned out they were all in Petaluma! Another ten miles???? We can’t go that far!!!! We’ll never make it!!! We made it and that started a series …
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Growing up as a teenager in the muscle car era, you couldn’t help but become a car guy. The freedom of having a car opened the door to new experiences, one of those surfing. Always wanting a woodie, I settled for a 1958 Chevy 2 door wagon to tote my board to the beach. Skip forward about 20 years, Sue …
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When we purchased our ‘Woodie’, I was really looking for a 1951 Ford Victoria with the hopes of replicating my first car that I built with my Dad. Lots of memories always come flooding back about the time my Dad and I spent working on that car. So, when I saw a very small ad listing a 1951 Ford Country …
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When I was growing up in San Francisco, our family car was a 1951 Ford Woodie that my dad used for his furniture business and family outings. We also used to take our junk to the city dumps where my dad helped me score several old metal push cars, including a woodie. My love of cars has been lifelong and …
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The following is a great article which appeared in the Sacramento Bee about Floyd Smith and his hand crafted surfboards. "The Sierra foothills seem an unlikely place to find a surf legend. But an "Endless Summer" vibe fills the Rescue workshops of Floyd Smith. Four converted sheds built in a El Dorado County hillside pasture – one for foam, one for wood, two for finishing – serve as Smith's artistic studios. As he's done most of his life, Smith transforms large, plain "blanks" of foam or balsa wood into wave-riding art."
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Santa Cruz Woodies A Chapter of the National Woodie Club