Station Wagons

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[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

I like station wagons.

[Anti Globalist]

My family has never owned a station wagon.

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[tod evans]

Look up Steve Morris

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Look up Steve Morris

No way.

Go suck yet another lemon, Chevy freak.

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Today we pretend like we no longer have station wagons. But we're up to our eyeballs in what we now call SUVs. Back in the day, the army Jeep was an SUV. Wagons were wagons, whether based on car chassis, or installed on truck chassis like this International Harvester.

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[ClaytonB]

I spent more hours in the back of one of these than I care to admit... exactly like the photo:

[acptulsa]

A Gran Torino Square, er, I mean Squire? Starsky and Hutch meet the Brady Bunch? Kind of a cramped third seat, but better than even the full size Shovrolets.

Dad always went full sized, until the gas crunch. I learned to drive in a Country Square.

[acptulsa]

Why 1971-76 full sized GM wagons had useless third seats (or virtually no under floor storage)--and a major weight problem.



The fifteen seconds that process takes doesn't seem like much, until a rainy day.

[ClaytonB]

A Gran Torino Square, er, I mean Squire? Starsky and Hutch meet the Brady Bunch? Kind of a cramped third seat, but better than even the full size Shovrolets.

Dad always went full sized, until the gas crunch. I learned to drive in a Country Square.

I hated always looking out the back, so I kept the seat folded down and put one of the throw pillows from the couch back there. I could sit, lay, look forward, sideways or backwards, lol...

[acptulsa]

I hated always looking out the back, so I kept the seat folded down and put one of the throw pillows from the couch back there. I could sit, lay, look forward, sideways or backwards, lol...

Oh. Sorry your dad didn't spring for a full size. Not that the Gran Torino wasn't big enough. It was. But the big(ger) Ford wagons offered these:

[tod evans]

Oh. Sorry your dad didn't spring for a full size. Not that the Gran Torino wasn't big enough. It was. But the big(ger) Ford wagons offered these:

Growing up we had a 66 Polara wagon, 67 Colony Park and a 73 Grand Safari, all big blocks.

[acptulsa]

Growing up we had a 66 Polara wagon, 67 Colony Park and a 73 Grand Safari, all big blocks.

Did they all have third row seats? Did you ever try to seat adults in any of them? Did that work in anything but the Polara?

Did the Safari's tailgate ever break down halfway closed? I saw that happen to a GM wagon owner once, though I was too little to remember which of the four brands it was.

[tod evans]

Did they all have third row seats? Did you ever try to seat adults in any of them? Did that work in anything but the Polara?

Did the Safari's tailgate ever break down halfway closed? I saw that happen to a GM wagon owner once, though I was too little to remember which of the four brands it was.

All had 3rd row and with 6 kids there was no need for anyone over 4' tall to try and fit. You're right though the Dodge was the roomiest for the 3rd row passengers but with the Mercury my sis and I could share the second row seat and crowd the younger ones in the "way-back".

I drove all 3 and the 390-4v out performed the 440-2v and the 455-4v by lots, light up second gear and chirp 3rd with a C6 lots..

I remember broken back glass on the Pontiac but not the gate itself..

[acptulsa]

All had 3rd row and with 6 kids there was no need for anyone over 4' tall to try and fit. You're right though the Dodge was the roomiest for the 3rd row passengers ...

I'm six three and I find the third row of a Polara wagon quite roomy for two adults. Better than the middle row of any minivan I've sampled, though harder to enter and exit.

Yeah, the pre-smog 429 Country Square was a dog. Dad actually loaded the car so heavy that we found a hill in Seattle it couldn't climb. Seven liters is enough to move a Class 7 truck!

I never understood Detroit's insistence on choking huge V-8s with two barrel carbs. I guess many consumers wanted bragging rights on engine size, but wanted at least eleven mpg. All I know is it was the bane of the Golden Age of the American car. A 340 Barracuda would dust anything with a two barrel, even if it had 120 extra cubes.

[Suzu]

Imagine sitting in that seat watching an out-of-control Mack truck that's about to smash into the rear of the wagon!