THE STATION WAGONS WE GREW UP WITH
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2022
- it may seem hard to believe today, but the full-size station wagon was more versatile than many modern vehicles currently available at dealerships. With the exception of contemporary features - like heated cup holders, headrest-mounted monitors, and about 50 power outlets for everyone's electric gadgets - the station wagon was capable of hauling up to as many as 10 passengers to a ball game on a Sunday afternoon, just a day after lugging a large stack of plywood plus 2x4 framing studs and enough nails to build a tree fort for the kids. It's true: yesterday's station wagon had a larger cargo capacity than today's crossovers. In this video we pay homage to the station wagons of the 60’s, a banner decade for the body style's production run. This is the story or the station wagons of the 60’s!
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Station wagons rule. I miss them
Love my wagon. It's a Buick Regal TourX... only bad thing is they stopped making parts for it when it was discontinued in 2020 so it will be harder to keep in top top shape than most cars.
I drive a 75 buick century wagon in the Netherlands and I love it ♥️
The station wagon. What a perfect people carrier.
Best days of my life. We went camping and drive-in theaters back then they were beautiful awesome cars .... today they have nothing like that
Hope you all enjoy the video. I MADE SOME BOO BOOs. I used Dollar signs where I should have not. My brother caught it. NOT re-uploading. We'll live with it. LOL
You also described the Vista-Cruiser as having a rear facing 3rd row seat when the image clearly show it facing forward.. 🙄
@@trudygreer2491 Good catch! You should work for the FBI......oh. wait, you're probably too honest.
Please post positive proof pronto.
Pics preferred
Awwe you forgot about the Pontiac Safari wagon
No biggie. Still great content 👍
The station wagon, no doubt, was truly the SUV of its day!
Definitely 😁 Would Love to see a Country Squier like the One at 1:46 The Video and The Magnetic Checker Board too Just Saying
Without a doubt true.
In popularity, maybe, though you see far more SUVs now than you saw station wagons then, partly because there was just more variety in vehicle body styles back then. Plus, there were already SUVs in the 1960s and '70s; they just didn't call them that yet, truck-based wagons like Chevrolet Suburbans, International Travelalls, Jeep Wagoneers, Ford Broncos, and Chevrolet Blazers, essentially truck-wagons, which is basically what an SUV is, at least originally. I know they've changed over time.
I disagree. The station wagon was truly the minivan of its' day.
@@frankhoward7645 agreed. An SUV and especially CUV for suburban pavement is the worst of about everything. Expensive for no real reason. Compromised cargo (almost no cargo room with back seat up), exposed cargo, no width, cramped back seats, typically poor fuel efficiency by modern standards of economy.....basically a 1st Gen Dodge minivan with the cargo area and 3rd row seat chopped off like a cheap 70s hatchback Pinto secretaries car.
SUVs offer big bucket front seats and lots of cupholders and gadget plugs. Expensive tires that are likely to never see offloading unless you back over a flowerbed. Higher than normal service costs due to cramped mechanicals, overloaded brakes or a 4WD or AWD you'll use once a year if it snows 2" and sunbelt drivers will never use.
The Volvo Wagon and the 1994 to 2007 Taurus/Sable wagon midsizes was the last car truly engineered for suburban needs, with peppy driving character of the Chevelle or Vista Cruiser.
The late 90s Buick Roadmaster and Caprice wagon was the last of the massive pondering boats, and they likely killed the wagon.
I’m an old man. As a kid, riding in the “way back” was pretty cool. Nowadays, having kids staring at the car driver behind directly in the face probably wouldn’t be to cool.
But we loved it back then!
1972. Family road trip, Idaho to Tennessee in a '67 Vista Cruiser, my brother, sister and I riding in the "back in the back" playing auto bingo. Ah, the good old days
For me it was our 1975 caprice estate. The road trips, the camping trips, the drive in and me and my sis in the back in our PJ’s. Beautiful memories I will cherish forever
My grandpa owned two station wagons: a 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser with the electric clamshell tailgate, and a 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Classic Estate. Loved both of em.
Those were BOTH amazing wagons and unfortunately during the 1970’s the Country Squire seemed to be the quintessential family hauler and overshadowed the offerings from GM and Mopar put together.
you forgot Plymouth! .. my mother drove a 66 Belvedere II, a 68, 70 and 72 Sport Suburban, a 75 Gran Fury Sport Suburban and a 77 Dodge Monaco Crestwood!
@@727100bear "Tank & Country" wagon s
We had the '73 Caprice Estate, learned how to drive in it!! 454 4barrel, dual exhaust. Hauled ass, and the tailgate was not that big of a deal.
@@painkillerjones6232 The disappearing tailgate was a gimmick mostly. It took up headroom and any storage below. It was sold as the solution to opening it while parked near the front of another car.
I grew up with some of these station wagons. Fond memories no modern SUV can match.
My high school ran summer driver’s education classes that anyone who would turn 16 in the following school year had to attend. I attended the summer of 1969 and the school had a fleet of Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser wagons to learn to drive, including one that had a three-speed manual on the steering column that everyone had to successfully learn to drive. The front passenger seat where the instructor sat had an extra brake pedal to prevent us from killing ourselves! 😉 The instructors were regular full time teachers. I was lucky. My instructor was young and loved to run the radio at loud volume tuned to Top 40 rock and roll. Great memories.
All of those driver's ed cars had an additional brake pedal. My driver's ed car was a green 1978 Dodge Monaco 4-Door Sedan. Our first lesson behind the wheel was in a Kmart parking lot.
@@SpockvsMcCoy I remember seeing ones on TV that also had a passenger-side steering wheel, but I never saw one on the road. My driving school jammed the instructor and 4 students into 6-year-old 1972 Dodge Darts; we were always a little grumpy after each trip.
My grandfather (born in 1908) learned to drive from a family member in the 1920s, which was typical. In those days, all automobile controls were manual (choke, starter, throttle, spark advance, steering, brakes, transmission). I didn't learn to drive a manual transmission car until many years later.
@@pcno2832 I believe there were machines that simulated the feel of being behind the wheel...but my school district did not have those. Instead, I remember the nearly retired teacher showing our class horror show movies and pictures of mutilated bodies from traffic accidents.
Learned to drive on a '77 Ford LTD
1958 Chevy Nomad wagon, 1963 Chevy wagon, 1972 Ford Country Squire, 1979 Chevy Caprice Classic wagon.
I miss them all.
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I grew up with the 1969 Plymouth Sport Suburban wagon. 383 V8 was great. Yeah. My sister and I loved to sit in the “way back”.
I'm a big fan of 60's and 70's fullsize wagons!
I've noticed more and more vintage wagons at car shows and auctions..
GOOD OLD DAYS I LOVE THESE OLD WAGONS ,, I HAD A 1966 CHEVY IMPALA WAGON ,COOL LOVED IT..THESE CARS ARE THE GREATEST ..THESE DAYS ,CRAP..TO SHORT OF A VIDEO , WE WANT MORE WAGONS YA!!! THX.
Missing from this video is how Wagons were used like trucks for towing trailers, including big camper trailers. These often were also used by some construction companies, double duty, transporting important people to construction sites, and hauling trailers of construction equipment.
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Make sense, 60’s and 70’s Full sized cars and some intermediates have body on frame with huge 400+ CI engines. In addition to SUV like ground clearance.
We towed a huge airstream through the mountains in 69 with a Chevelle station wagon. I remember sliding all around in the back as we traveled through the smokies winding roads. These were heavy beasts used and abused.
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🤣 the days before mandatory Seat Belts. Those Vinyl seats were notorious.
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Right, back in the 1960's we had a neighbor who always had Dodge station Wagons and they always had engines in them like the 383 and the 413 and his last one had a 440. He used them to tow his travel trailers all over the USA from Vermont to Texas. They would have stickers from various states in the back window.
My '87 mercury wagon was used for hauling horse trailers across the country to different shows and such. Then used for scrapping, hauling upwards of 8k-10k pounds of steel at a time once my grandfather got ahold of it. Now has 400k miles but that kind of history should have killed it. Still runs damn near like new.
Had me a 64 Chevelle Malibu wagon. One of the most gorgeous looking wagons from a bygone era
My buddies mom and dad had a black 1960 Dodge Polara wagon. Still one of my all time favs
1960 Dodge Polara and Matadors were very rare. More common was the cheaper full-size 1960 Dodge Dart.
My mom and dad ordered a 1965 country sedan, 390 engine three speed column shifter, with overdrive, four barrel carburetor, that old Ford took us every where in the sixty and seventies, what a wagon.
Practical and down to earth. All you needed, wanted and required!
The Modern Day Cowboy turned Family Man mode of transport - you could take the whole famdamly in 1 horse with all the horses under the hood!!!!!! Thanks Boca Brothers!!!!!!!!Thanks to all the Mothers and Fathers for these memories as well= Great Memories and Great times had by all!!!!
I learned to drive in a gold 1972 Chrysler Town & Country with wood paneling.
Mom told me "The power steering is so easy you almost don't have to steer."
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My grandparents had a 1972 Chrysler Newport Royal.
My dad had a total of four station wagons from the early 1960's to the mid 1980's. The one that I liked the most and wish I still had, was his 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta station wagon, which had factory air conditioning, a rare option back then. It had so much chrome on it, that my dad called it the "chromemobile".
The Fiesta was a hardtop station wagon and similar to the Buick Century Caballero.
Yeah..We had two. 1968 Bel air and 78 impala wagon. Thanks Frank
My Uncle Jerry owned a 69' Ford Country Squire, followed by a 72' Olds Vista Cruiser. He had 5 kids & my Mom had 3. My Mom, Aunt, & Uncle would toss us 8 kids in the back of those Station Wagons & the 11 of us would go cruising to all kinds of places. What a blast it was! Loved those 2 Station Wagons. Still have a Polaroid picture of my Aunt, Uncle, & their 5 kids standing, in front of the passenger side of the Vista Cruiser, in my parents driveway. The photo was taken in the summer of 1973.
My Aunt had a 66 Bel Air with 327 4V 300 HP 3 on the tree under dash A/C we made many trips in that thing 3 Adults and 6 kids all over the place. I'm 62 and I've never seen another one like it.
Dad gave me his white 63 Rambler Ambassador 880 station wagon in 1970. It had a 327 V8 with positraction. I loved that car and took my friends everywhere. My HS girlfriend and I would go to the drive-in movies. The rear seat folded flat with the fronts which was really cool. That station wagon saved us from our virginities. Lol.
Growing up, my parents had a 1974 Pontiac Grand Safari. I used to love sitting in the fold out jumpseats in the back.
I bought a 1971 Plymouth Satellite Custom in 1971, I used it for a young family, and for trailer towing a camper for the next 10 yrs or so, back then you could order a trailer tow pkg. included big 383 engine, hvy duty cooling ,class 4 hitch ,wiring and different rr axle ratio .
Ah the memories growing up with the family station wagon . My parents owned these back in the day 70s and 80s from Dodge, Chevrolet and Pontiacs from mid-sized to full-sized our last one being the Pontiacs Parisienne Safari. Fun Times.
My family drove across the US in the early 80’s from the east coast to California in a station wagon. My brother and I would climb over the seat and into the back repeatedly. A lot of good memories there. 👍
My folks started out with a ‘54 (2-door), ‘61, 65, and 2, 70’s. We kids picked up after that with a ‘65, ‘67 and ‘77.
I remember when we bought a new 1965 Pontiac Catalina and it was cool 👍🏻✌🏻🇺🇸🇺🇦
Love it. I grew up in station wagons : 1972 Ford Custom Ranch Wagon, 1978 Ford LTD Station Wagon, and lastly 1984 Ford LTD Mid size Station Wagon. Remembered in the older 1972 and 1978 you could put a pile of 4x8 plywood sheets, close all doors and go home better than most pickup trucks does today :)
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Most pickup trucks come with a standard 6/1/2' bed so unless you ordered one with an 8' bed, you couldn't haul those plywood sheets without them hanging off the back. Meanwhile, a modern minivan will take those sheets with the tailgate closed.
@@frankhoward7645 you're absolutely right about pickup trucks and that's why I bought a Sienna in 2005, that I still own. I remember, no joke, the first thing I did when I was at the dealership before I buy was to measure the cargo if I could insert a 4x8 plywood sheet with the tailgate closed. The salesman was looking at me as if it was a joke, we laught, the rest is history.
@@FullTimeGT I remember loading sheetrock into the back of my Dodge Grand Caravan. The guy next to me was loading the same thing into his pickup. It was raining. Guess what happened to his.
@@frankhoward7645 hahaha
My parents owned a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Townsman Station Wagon in Dusk Pearl and India Ivory. I have only seen photos of it because it was sold before I was born.
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AWESOME!
My family had 3 Ford wagons when I was growing...1967 Country Squire, 1972 Country Sedan and a 1978 LTD II S wagon. I would love to have any of them back today...they were great cars that look us on many a trip in the 70s.
The last LTD II wagon was in 1977...the final full-size LTD wagon was in 1978.
The thumbnail is exactly what I remember being our first new car, 1966 country sedan, white with blue interior.
6:04 First time I have ever seen a Super Bee wagon.
Love the video. We always had a station wagon in the 60s & 70s. and a sedan. Drive Inns & Camping were very popular then. Great times to be a kid!
We had 2 Buick wagons growing up a 65 & 67 Sport Wagon. Similar to the Olds one. Also my Mom years later had probably the biggest Olds wagon ever created. It had a 455 in it. We lovingly called it the Enterprise.
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I love old wagons
In 1960 my parents had a 1958 Ford Country Sedan , My Dad was in the California National Guard and was assigned to go to Fort Eustis Viginia so Mom and Dad loaded up us five children I being the oldest at eleven years old into this car and away we went a cross country to my Dad's assignment for six months of schooling on the Heuy
Helicopter later to be the work horse in Vietnam Nam. WE had a car top carrier for our luggage and over load springs for the suspension ( almost a low rider) boy what memories US kids had the best parents in the world ,,,,miss the dearly Dad passed in 1970 and
Mom passed 30 years ago today 3-14 -1992 Love you both!
Sensational video! Thank you,
I still own two Ford Crown Victoria wagons, a 1991 and a 1987 both of which are great cars with all the power features and 302 V8's.
My Mom had one of the rarest '60s American wagons - a 1961 Chevy Corvair Lakewood. Thereafter, we had a 1967 Chevy Malibu Concours wagon until Mom got a 1970 Volkswagen Squareback. Throughout the 1980s, I drove one of the rarest German wagons - a 1971 Audi Super-90 'Variant'. Today I own a European 1984 Mercedes TD wagon with manual windows, manual HVAC, and 5-speed manual transmission.
My mom had a 79 fairmont squire wagon I loved that car then my first car was a 86 Plymouth reliant k wagon i also had a 85 Subaru gl wagon a 95 Buick century wagon and now a 1986 olds custom cruiser I love wagons
Absolutely loved this one thanks for sharing. Even now I still love classic station wagons with my favourite memories being touring here in Australia as a kid in a 1966 VE Valiant Regal Safari with a slant six. Have been looking for a a good old school station wagon here for years but I must say I really love the North American built ones as well. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
VE's came out in 68 (car of the year) to be correct. I learned to drive in mum's '70 VG Valiant Safari wagon with the 2 barrel 245 HEMI with 3 on the tree.
@@rossbrumby1957 my mistake the model actually ran from October 67 to February 69 here in Australia
They were so beautiful !
My father-in-law had a '59 Pontiac Catalina Safari and he drove 6 people to work with him. It was an income source for him and for his family, bless him. I later rode to my factory job in a succession of co-worker owned 9-pass wagons, usually in the tailgunner seat.
Super Sleepers: Full size station wagons with highway patrol interceptor packages. IF you knew what codes to use when ordering you could get a very upgraded station wagon. Cop cooling systems, cop engine, cop suspensions, cop electrical systems, etcetera. Some rare codes even involved strengthened frames and bodies.
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It would really be something to order brand new a '67 Impala wagon with big block and four speed. Wowie.
Spankin Brand new! Thanks for watching and the comment! Boca Brother!
Was waiting to see the iconic '64 Pontiac Catalina Safari with the 389 like we had as a kid. The power band was between 60-90mph. What a beast!
My folks had a 1968 Ford Country Squire LTD.
There is one I still see around town every now and then.
My wife said her family called the back the "way back". We called it the "big back" in my family. Ours didn't have the optional toy box, but it did have the seats the folded up from the cargo area.
My mom grew up with a 1957 Nomad, and latter a 1967 Country Squire that she drove and dented in college. My grandfather had many more through the 1980's. We had a late 70's Malibu as well the neighbor across the street.
Mom's '41 Ford Woody...painted maroon with a four inch brush...four seats...four doors...Mom hauled around my sister's Brownie troop of 13, with me cornered in the rearmost seat next to the tailgate.
Hell, almost everybody drives a station wagon now. They are just a little taller, have a little more ground clearance and sometimes all four wheels pull it....I'll never be convinced that a CUV or SUV that sits on a unibody isn't just a glorified station wagon. The truck framed ones are a little different but still.
A wagon was to me like a passenger car with more seating. To me, an SUV is like a truck. I love my 95 Caprice wagon and al the wagons I owned but I hate SUVs.
Title on my suv is marked SW as body style
@@bigcharliesmodelgarage296 So it goes. A rose by any other name is still a rose.
@@gregvarner9562 indeed l love station wagons.
@@bigcharliesmodelgarage296 They are the OG.
My first car was a 1967 Ranch Wagon!!!!!!! With a 289!! Great car!!
Brings back memories of being little more than a toddler going on vacations in our ‘73 Chevy wagon. No seatbelts in use for anyone let alone child car seats, climbing back and forth from the front seat to the very back. I had a terrible habit of chewing on the back of the front seat making holes in it which irritated my father to no end. Standing up holding onto the dashboard watching the scenery go past, all things that would get parents ticketed in todays world!
Loved it!!!!!
Oldsmobile wagon is my favorite!
During most of the 1960's, my dad had a 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta station wagon which had factory air conditioning, a rare option back then. It had so much chrome on it, that my dad called it the "chromemobile".
I wish that I still had it.
Yeah mine too. The Vista Cruiser actually had a forward facing rear seat not rear. I think I said rear facing. Lol..
It sounds like Lorne Greene from Bonanza @ 1:55 talking about the 1966 Chevrolet Caprice custom station wagon.
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Because Chevrolet was Bonanza's sponsor.
my uncle Paul had a early 70's dark blue Plymouth Suburban Station wagon.
This one brought back loads of wagon memories!
My family started out with a 62 Ford Country Squire. She was black with the woodgrain sides, and red n white interior. When the dealer dropped off the wagon to my Pop's business, the salesman was giving him a demo on how to operate all the bells n whistles. Well the tailgate caught fire because the dealership used long screws to hold the name plate of the dealer on. They had cut into the wire harness. They towed that burned up hulk back to the dealer!
The next one was a 69 Pontiac wagon. I took my driver's test in that tank...passed on the first try too.
Then we had a 76 Pontiac Grand Lemans wagon. I ended up taking her up to College, where she was the vehicle of choice for all road trips in Michigan.
My best friends family had a 71 Ford wagon that we always used for the fishing trips down the Jersey shore.
Miss those days
I was conceived in the back of a '57 Chevy Nomad. After I was born, the folks bought a Rambler SW, put a crib in the back and that's how I got my travelin jones. Yep, a crib. No car seat or seat belts, yet somehow I survived it.
LOL......
All we had when we where growing up was station wagons to accommodate seven kids.🙂👍On one family holiday in the 1970s my dad put a large sign that read"overpopulated"and hung it in the rear window so the hitchhikers would see it as we drove past.👍We received of peace signs and laughs when we waved back at them!✌
Those wagons were beautiful cars it's a shame we can't have cars like that again today all we have is a bunch of junk on the road
1967 Ford Fairlane wagon for my folks.
Squire option that year on the Fairlane.
I do home remodeling and my work vehicle is an 85 Caprice Estate. Not a week goes by without getting a thumbs up or someone telling me about their childhood experience riding in the back of their family wagon. When I go to the big box home center other contractors look in amazement at the size and amount of stuff I can pile in or on my roof rack!
This is about the 6th GM wagon I have owned since starting in the late 80's. All the parts from this series (78-90) are interchangeable (even many body parts). When its time to move on, I strip off the good stuff I can use and call these guys who use my car for the local demo derby!!
My dad always bought Plymouth fury wagons for his business needs. We had a 64 with push button transmission and then a 1969 or 70 and then a 1977 grand fury with wood panels.
1977 was last year of the big Gran Fury.
I really like these wagons.
When I visited Norway around a decade ago, I noticed a ton of station wagons on the road. A lot of them were compact Volvos which weren't really sold in the United States because we culturally had shifted to the bulkier gas guzzling SUVs. Growing up in the 60s & 70s, the sight of all of those sensible cars with flexible cargo space made me strangely happy. (And no faux wood panelling amongst them...)
One of the best fights I ever saw was in the cargo area of a 66 olds wagon!
My father owened a 1992 Opel Omega as it was called her in Germany he sold it last month with 550.678 Kilometers on it I loved it
I grew up in wagons. My dad used them as a truck for his business but also as a family car. We had a 1957 Plymouth full size wagon, a 1962 Dodge 880 wagon. A 1966 Pontiac wagon and a 1967 Dodge Monaco wagon. And finally a 1970 Pontiac wagon, which I took my road test in December 1971.
Those Dodge 880 and Monaco wagons were rare.
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Most fun ever was being in a Ford Country Squire, in those seats that faced backwards so you could look at the cars behind you, making faces & flipping them off, crossing alligator Alley from fort Lauderdale to Naples that was fun!!!!😋
I remember the malabu wagon we had. The seat had that upholstery line in the center of the seat. My brother and I would fight if one of crossed it. Oh good times. Memories.
Lol memories. Me and my sister. You crossed the line, stay on your side of the car! 😂
We had a 1967 Ford Country Squire, 390ci, white with woody sides, dual side facing seats. I was 6 years old when I went with Dad and Mom to pick it up at the Ford dealer in Wilmington Delaware. I sat in the side facing rear seats on many long 75mph interstate trips to visit grandma. I lived a fџҁӄing cliché.
The memories. I can still remember the new car smell of my dad's 1968 Bel Air wagon! Thanks for watching and the comments! Please help us out by subscribing to our channel if you're not already one? Michael - Boca Brothers
It was weird facing people behind you , in traffic and at the light. No seat belts, we were all over the inside of those cars. What a wonder time. I wish I could go back and stay.
That was the most comprehensive wagon expose I’ve ever seen ! Yes , I’ve sat in the back of a few of them . I even possessed one myself , for a minute .
The Ford Country Squire. Blue with "wood" trim. Great memories!
Also the 1959 and 1969 Chevy wagons!!!!!!! 1960 white with a turquois interior!! The best!!
The Mercedes Benz 300 class E wagon was totally awesome; the Volvo wagons of the 1980s (the bricks) were amazing too
I'll bet the Mercedes rode a lot better than the Volvo, though. I remember being stuck in the back of a 740 for an hour or so and the ride was unbearable, more like a little truck than a big car.
From The Datsun Maxima wagon existed from 1981 to 1984 and it was a good car. It even had an optional diesel. I do not know how they were able to share so many engine parts with the gasoline L-series engine, but make it work. Olds couldn't do it.
The Nissan Maxima that replaced in 1985 to 1988 was awful. A great engine bolted to a garbage car.
I grew up riding in the back of a 64 falcon wagon with rear facing 3rd row seat. Perfect for 2 smelly little boys😁
My first car was a '69 Buick Sportwagon, with a 400ci V-8, skyline roof, white metalflake paint, factory mags and side exhaust pipes with glass packs. That beast rumbled! She got wrecked by a Mustang on a narrow bridge. I still miss her. 😕😕😕
Mom and Dad had a 69 Pontiac Catalina station wagon. 400 cid with turbo 400 trans.
That boat could fly!
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THE FORD TAILGATE WAS AN EXELLANT IDEA, I HAD A 1966 COLONY PARK USED FOR REMOTE AUTO SERVICING NO NEED TO REACH OVER THE TAILGATE TO ACCESS TOOLS IN THE BACK
We had a 1965 Dodge Coronet wagon followed by a 1967 Dodge Monaco wagon. My parents would drop the seats and put pads in the back for us to sleep on while they drove through the night on vacation.
My parents first vehicle was a 76 Chevy Impala station wagon. Love them clamshell style.
My family wagon was a 1978 AMC Hornet Sportsabout. It was red, with a yellow stripe and sporty mags on it’s wheels.
8:31-our friends drove a big yellow Buick Estate wagon, and their mother drove this car fast and one time made it jump a small bump in the road
Love how it began with the Country Squire and wrapped up with the Colony Park…..that beautiful white 70’s version was my favorite!
My First Car was a 1971 Chevy Kingswood Wagon... I'm currently putting together a 1956 Rambler Cross Country Wagon. Thanks for Sharing
I just replaced a battery for a customer with a 1996 Buick Road Master Estate Wagon. !4,000 miles and never outdoors overnight. It looks and drives like new.
I envied my Dad's 1960 Olds Dynamic 88 wagon. 455 engine and the speedo had a color change from green at low speed to orange then red a high speed ... very cool
Of all (67) car’s we have owned,,Our 72 Gran Torino Wagon was her favorite,,,was a great comfortable do it ll.
In the 70's I was one of these kids who fight to be seated in the back of the station wagon. Oh! The good things that they never came back.
We had a Volvo 122 wagon until 1970 when my dad bought a Checker Marathon sedan. That thing could haul as much as a wagon of that era, even more if it had fold down rear seat back. Checker made a wagon Marathon too, those things were huge.
Checker used the chevy 350 cid , a ford tranny and a dodge rear end .
@@lorengordon9626 My dads Checker has a 307 and a Borg Warner trans I think. Don’t know about the Axel.
checker used various engines etc.
But the car was a heavy runner and when I was a boy many were used as taxi's.
It was a great car !
I have a '70 Torino "plain Jane" wagon that came with a 429 SCJ "drag pack" engine, 4 speed transmission, and 391 traction-lok rear differential. Ford produced seven 429 Torino wagons '70-'71. 6 had the Country Squire trim. 4 of those had ram-air shaker hoods. I have the only one that came like mine. Ford Museum has tried to buy it from me 3 times over the years, but I'll never sell it.
I grew up on a 1968 Ford station wagon ranch...Station wagons feel more stable when I drive it...
my dad had a vistacruiser, just like the one pictured. i miss the station wagons.
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