A Super Super: ’51 Buick Estate Super

Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co. became the Ionia Mfg. Co., in 1942. During the war the Ionia Mfg. employed as many as 11,000 workers in the Ionia, Owosso and Lyons plants and was one of the 4,000 US businesses that gained the coveted Army – Navy “E” pennant for their wartime production excellence. One of Ionia’s wartime contacts at General Motors was “Boss” Kettering, who helped land Ionia a contract to produce 1946 station wagons bodies for Chevrolet and Pontiac. From 1946 through 1948, Ionia built all 18,791 of Pontiac’s station wagon bodies.  Read More