THE STATION WAGONS WE GREW UP WITH
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 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
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
The station wagon. What a perfect people carrier.
The station wagon, no doubt, was truly the SUV of its day!
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.
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.
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.
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 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".
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.
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
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
I've noticed more and more vintage wagons at car shows and auctions..
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.
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”.
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!
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.
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 :)
I grew up with some of these station wagons. Fond memories no modern SUV can match.