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Yes on the wood body framing. Fords low production bodies such as Fordors, Cabriolets, and Station wagons used a lot of wood for framing so you don't see as many of those model A types around. The Tudor Sedan, commercial bodies & beds, open cars, and the various coupe bodies only used wood for internal trim mounting attachment and the tops. The wood in these cars is a lot easier to replace and there really isn't a lot of it there when compared to the wood body cars.
Chevrolet cars by contrast, had a lot of similar traits to the wood structure used in Ford's lower production bodies which used wood for the primary structure and the sheet metal was tacked and screwed on to that structure. There are exceptions but Chevrolet just didn't build as many cars with steel as the primary structure. This makes them harder to restore and replacement parts are not as plentiful. Many an old Chevy ended life in the scrap iron drives of world war II. My great grandfather had an old Chevy that caught fire due to an electrical short and there wasn't much left of it after the fire was out.
I think the used car scrapping was not all that common. Dealers needed to make money and their respective manufacturers could not just step in and completely take that away from them. For one, it wouldn't be practical to ship all the scrap all the way back to the manufacturers and their sub-contractors.