My brother had one! I think a ‘75. Brown with the fake wood-trim. 351 Windsor under the hood. Always hard up for gas money.
Heck yes.
22
Yep.
I was telling my daughter the other day I wish I could find an old wood panel station wagon and air stream travel trailer.
20
yes!!! it ain’t a computerized, gps’ed vehicle that can’t be fixed half the time because they either ran out of computer chip replacements or have no idea how to re-program a frickin’ key that has 2009 technology, so that it can start your car again (true story … yes, they haven’t changed the chipsets since 2009)
My dad had a Vista Cruiser, it was great. I’d just as soon have a station wagon as a pickup truck. Those rear facing seats always made me carsick though.
5
Sooner than I would a coal-powered eco-shitbox!!!
8
Vista Cruiser or nothing!
6
Nothing like going to the drive-in theater with the whole family in one of those. Glad I got to experience it.
6
I just had my 73 Super Beetle inspected and tagged on Monday. The center link is shot, but he knew I’d get a new one.
And yes, I’d drive that.
7
Paint it green and make it a National Lampoon’s Vacation Tribute mobile. Add some luggage to the top and spray paint “Honky Lips” on the side…good to go!
5
My dad had a 1960 Chevy impala wagon. A spacious beast. I wish I owned it now.
5
I drove a hand me down LADA when I was a Kid.
It had inner tubes in the tires & was made in Russia. 58 Hp.
We were dirt poor in the 70’s/80’s BUT it actually had better HEAT than the 12 year old Volkswagen Air Cooled Bug my Mother had.
Now my parents oldest car in a Mercedes SL 550 v-8 convertible.
Save your money, buy real estate, Invest in stocks, Work 6 days a week & Be CONSERVATIVE. It will all work out!
Peace all.
Support your LOCAL UNACCEPTABLE TRUCKERS!
F@CK TRUDEAU, Lets Go Brandon!
15
My father worked at Ford and we had several wagons over the years.
The well in the very back was excellent for sneaking in to drive-ins and theme parks when they used to charge at the gate.
I always volunteered.
My parents were cool and I wanted to help save money.
My siblings weren’t as benevolent.
My favorite was a red version that had all the new electronic bells and whistles.
I would sit in the driveway and pretend I was flying a space rocket with all the little buttons.
Dad would get in and everything was changed and be like WTF!
7
Yes
5
I 302’d a Pinto wagon of about that same vintage – fun little car, but it exploded when I switched the radio from fm to am…
7
Heck ya.
I would prefer to have my first car again though.
1968 Cougar XR7.
4
LBS
I learned to drive on a Shit Brown Woody 79 v-8 Pontiac wagon that sat 9 with the rear back facing bench.
I would Kill to have that wagon now!
Fully loaded was Cruise, Power windows, & AC.
My god when I would misbehave my dad would pull over & kick the shit out of me ROADSIDE.
4
Nothing quite like the Rally Queen Family Truckster for a road trip!
4
That wagons worth 20 grand easy.
I keep telling you people to go buy an old car, park it, and see what it’s worth a few years from now.
Fudge, look at VW’s. Pricey.
4
Yes. With 3 adults and 9 kids packed into it, like when the neighbor family invited us to go to Hershey Park with them in about 1971. My first road trip! Left early, came home late. No seatbelts in the car or on the rides.
A few years later, we were riding around in the back of pickup trucks. Good times.
10
Agreed Burr, before Choo-chew Pete either bans them or fills them with government surveillance.
Fucking 2024 cars will rat on their owners.
“Introducing the new Chevy Karen…”
15
Vw Bug
VW Bus…you’ll never get one for less than 10K. Not even running.
Old tow truck wrecker
70’s truck.60 trucks too expensive
Wagons are impossible to find.
The hot deal now is renovating old trailers from the 40’sand 50s
Find a Galaxy or a Fairlane or even a Comet. You don’t even have to wrench on it. Just keep it covered and forget about it. Guarantee you’ll make money off it.
4
I wouldn’t have a problem driving it, got my license in a 77 Buick wagon.
But I was in a serious accident 8 years ago, and likely would have died were I in a car like that. F150 to the driver’s side door. I was in a 2007 Infiniti G35, side airbags and a good B pillar, and was out of the ER that night.
Old cars are cool, but they certainly don’t protect like newer cars.
5
Dan……nobody hits old cars.
Hell, I would have ran into you just for driving some damn suppository car.
5
Had to sell a 69Z a while back. Matching number DZ302. Didn’t break my heart as I put a 383 stroker in it and was not impressed with that torqy mofo. If I wanted torque I’d drive a diesel. Oh wait, I do. Thinking about a big block Roadrunner.
4
63 Belair 3 on the tree straight 6 , 8 track tape deck playing Cream with Clapton, Cherry Bomb muffler , chrome re verse wheels , Make out mobile in the back
6
I discovered the Motor Trend channel on cable TV a couple of months ago.
It’s buried as the last channel, 687. Free with cable.
WTF?
Not sure how long it’s been in existence but it’s a great channel with unique car related shows.
Classic rides, resto-mods, you name it.
Cars to drool over.
Better than the Playboy channel.
I can’t understand it’s cable placement though?
I suppose it’s just idiots in charge like our government?
5
I’d drive one if I were in the witness protection program, just to make everyone think I was a total nerd.
4
I once drove an old beater station wagon to Canada and back for a fly in fishing trip. Had to bring a case of oil along. 2 quarts per fill up of gas. Never had to change the oil otherwise.
6
Yup, my first car was a 65 Plymouth Fury SW with an electric rear window and I thought I was cool with that! Many dates I would have to pick up in my dad’s small car and drive home to get my wagon.. girls parents didn’t appreciate the blacked out rear windows and the mattress in the back… I camped and fished a lot….
5
My beetle was 5 grand almost 10 years ago. Tripled in price if not quadrupled because I kept it 99% stock. I put disc brakes on the front, added a little faggy tach, and added a temperature sensing dipstick. Oh, and I put a spin-on oil filter system that may or may not decrease the value.
Of course I repaired a bunch of stuff like deck seals and put back the thermostat and louvers the former idiot had deleted. I’m in the process of getting the pre-heated breather back in working order… he had disabled that, too.
The day I invented drifting. Back in my 20’s I was a big time hot rod/street race guy. I had a 70 340 Mopar A body, perfectly balanced rotating assembly. That’s where horsepower starts. Anyway I’m parked in the inside lane of a double wide turn lane. Some old guy with a family in a Vista Cruiser pulls up. hand cranks down his windows and expressed extreme displeasure in the thumping going on thru my corvair turbos. Light changed and I dropped the hammer on the four speed car so hard I barely made the turn, Using all lanes. There was so much tire smoke in the air the old guy had no idea where he was going. I know, I’m an asshole. But I’m still taking credit for inventing drifting.
4
Jethro
I didn’t see a price. If you could pick it up cheap, under 30K yes. I draw the line on Mopars at 1970. I’d rather find a 340 in a light A body (Duster Dart). You’re an engineer so trust me when a machinist tells you the MOPAR small blocks were the best ever built, even though, they were two bold mains. When you see their main caps you’ll understand why I say that.
2
I bought a used 1973 Gran Torino when I returned from overseas duty. I was stopped at an intersection near Mile High Stadium in Denver when a girl in a smaller car rear ended me. I got out and the whole front end of her car was crushed. The rear bumper on Torino’s sat very high and built like a battleship. All she did to my car was rub the road grime off the bumper. There was not even a dent. She begged me not to report it because she really didn’t need another ticket and it was her brother’s car. I let her skate. Hope she had luck with her brother.
7
All day long.
4
As a kid, I always loved to sit in the rear-facing fold-up seat in the back of a station wagon making faces at the drivers in the cars behind.
When I started to drive, I always hated to be behind a station wagon with a kid in the rear facing fold-up seat making faces at me.
Karma’s funny that way.
I’m glad they don’t have THOSE any more, at least…
10
We had a fridge that color, I think.
I remember those station wagon “wood” panels bleached out in the southern sun before the first set of tires were bald.
6
@SNS – Haha! I still have one and my son loves goofing off at the cars following us. Most people are surprised to find a kid facing them. 1992 Toyota Camry wagon. We love that car. Nice and roomy. Great for road trips and camping.
My folks had a 1970’s Ford LTE wood paneled wagon. We thought it was super fancy because it had electric windows. All four of us kids slept halfway to Disney Land, while my parents argued, “just to stay awake.”
Those were the days!
4
I couldn’t afford the fuel burn.
2
Well, hell, yeah; I drive a ’65 Ranch Wagon, now! Heater delete, no power anything. Love that magnificent bastard!
5
It’s pretty weird just how much I love the artistry that went into car design. And car technology is fascinating!
My first car was a Studebaker Lark station wagon with the slider roof in the back and overdrive; 2 features that in their 1961 model were considered luxe. I paid $100.00 for it. I met the original owner of it when he hailed me on a downtown Olympia street. He’d used the car in his route sales between WA, OR, ID and MT. No wonder there were so many miles on it.
A couple of months ago I drove past a pristine ’62 white Cadillac Series 62 parked a few blocks north of the Pike Place Market. It was better than showroom condition. The top was down, too. Couldn’t believe anyone would park such a beauty on a downtown street — anywhere. I was going to stop and take pictures but didn’t. I found the exact car online; not one that looked like it, but the actual one. It had sold recently and the full description was still posted. I can’t find it now. I’d buy THAT for $50K before I’d buy a crummy “luxury” box. Everything looks like a Kia now.
4
I’d prefer one with a 351 Cleveland, but yes, I would.
3
It’s a 1972 so it’s before all the smog equipment took away power and gas mileage.
3
…and yes, I’d drive that car. Tonnage. “Cash for Clunkers” killed the used (old car) opportunities. Very sad.
4
No, but I would drive a Buick Regal Grand National to pick up groceries.
Bullet-proof tank.
My brother had one! I think a ‘75. Brown with the fake wood-trim. 351 Windsor under the hood. Always hard up for gas money.
Heck yes.
Yep.
I was telling my daughter the other day I wish I could find an old wood panel station wagon and air stream travel trailer.
yes!!! it ain’t a computerized, gps’ed vehicle that can’t be fixed half the time because they either ran out of computer chip replacements or have no idea how to re-program a frickin’ key that has 2009 technology, so that it can start your car again (true story … yes, they haven’t changed the chipsets since 2009)
For ORWW –
https://bringatrailer.com/station-wagon/
Absofukcinglootly.
Umm.. FJB/LGB
Yep
Absolutely!! I always loved station wagons. I could fit gigantic house speakers in the back and still have room for friends and all of our crap!!
It looks like something John Wayne would drive:
https://youtu.be/FjWsUiVseog
.
Station wagons are currently popular with hot-rodders.
Nope.
Starsky & Hutch’s incognito vehicle…
I would take it even with the ugly mustard yellow color.
Hell yes.
A yellow Truckster…..cool.
Most here could actually service a vehicle of that era.
Today? Not so much…
Looks like someone paid WAY TOO MUCH!
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a23488318/1972-ford-gran-torino-vintage-wagon-auction/
.
Of course I would!!
My dad had a Vista Cruiser, it was great. I’d just as soon have a station wagon as a pickup truck. Those rear facing seats always made me carsick though.
Sooner than I would a coal-powered eco-shitbox!!!
Vista Cruiser or nothing!
Nothing like going to the drive-in theater with the whole family in one of those. Glad I got to experience it.
I just had my 73 Super Beetle inspected and tagged on Monday. The center link is shot, but he knew I’d get a new one.
And yes, I’d drive that.
Paint it green and make it a National Lampoon’s Vacation Tribute mobile. Add some luggage to the top and spray paint “Honky Lips” on the side…good to go!
My dad had a 1960 Chevy impala wagon. A spacious beast. I wish I owned it now.
I drove a hand me down LADA when I was a Kid.
It had inner tubes in the tires & was made in Russia. 58 Hp.
We were dirt poor in the 70’s/80’s BUT it actually had better HEAT than the 12 year old Volkswagen Air Cooled Bug my Mother had.
Now my parents oldest car in a Mercedes SL 550 v-8 convertible.
Save your money, buy real estate, Invest in stocks, Work 6 days a week & Be CONSERVATIVE. It will all work out!
Peace all.
Support your LOCAL UNACCEPTABLE TRUCKERS!
F@CK TRUDEAU, Lets Go Brandon!
My father worked at Ford and we had several wagons over the years.
The well in the very back was excellent for sneaking in to drive-ins and theme parks when they used to charge at the gate.
I always volunteered.
My parents were cool and I wanted to help save money.
My siblings weren’t as benevolent.
My favorite was a red version that had all the new electronic bells and whistles.
I would sit in the driveway and pretend I was flying a space rocket with all the little buttons.
Dad would get in and everything was changed and be like WTF!
Yes
I 302’d a Pinto wagon of about that same vintage – fun little car, but it exploded when I switched the radio from fm to am…
Heck ya.
I would prefer to have my first car again though.
1968 Cougar XR7.
LBS
I learned to drive on a Shit Brown Woody 79 v-8 Pontiac wagon that sat 9 with the rear back facing bench.
I would Kill to have that wagon now!
Fully loaded was Cruise, Power windows, & AC.
My god when I would misbehave my dad would pull over & kick the shit out of me ROADSIDE.
Nothing quite like the Rally Queen Family Truckster for a road trip!
That wagons worth 20 grand easy.
I keep telling you people to go buy an old car, park it, and see what it’s worth a few years from now.
Fudge, look at VW’s. Pricey.
Yes. With 3 adults and 9 kids packed into it, like when the neighbor family invited us to go to Hershey Park with them in about 1971. My first road trip! Left early, came home late. No seatbelts in the car or on the rides.
A few years later, we were riding around in the back of pickup trucks. Good times.
Agreed Burr, before Choo-chew Pete either bans them or fills them with government surveillance.
Fucking 2024 cars will rat on their owners.
“Introducing the new Chevy Karen…”
Vw Bug
VW Bus…you’ll never get one for less than 10K. Not even running.
Old tow truck wrecker
70’s truck.60 trucks too expensive
Wagons are impossible to find.
The hot deal now is renovating old trailers from the 40’sand 50s
Find a Galaxy or a Fairlane or even a Comet. You don’t even have to wrench on it. Just keep it covered and forget about it. Guarantee you’ll make money off it.
I wouldn’t have a problem driving it, got my license in a 77 Buick wagon.
But I was in a serious accident 8 years ago, and likely would have died were I in a car like that. F150 to the driver’s side door. I was in a 2007 Infiniti G35, side airbags and a good B pillar, and was out of the ER that night.
Old cars are cool, but they certainly don’t protect like newer cars.
Dan……nobody hits old cars.
Hell, I would have ran into you just for driving some damn suppository car.
Had to sell a 69Z a while back. Matching number DZ302. Didn’t break my heart as I put a 383 stroker in it and was not impressed with that torqy mofo. If I wanted torque I’d drive a diesel. Oh wait, I do. Thinking about a big block Roadrunner.
63 Belair 3 on the tree straight 6 , 8 track tape deck playing Cream with Clapton, Cherry Bomb muffler , chrome re verse wheels , Make out mobile in the back
I discovered the Motor Trend channel on cable TV a couple of months ago.
It’s buried as the last channel, 687. Free with cable.
WTF?
Not sure how long it’s been in existence but it’s a great channel with unique car related shows.
Classic rides, resto-mods, you name it.
Cars to drool over.
Better than the Playboy channel.
I can’t understand it’s cable placement though?
I suppose it’s just idiots in charge like our government?
I’d drive one if I were in the witness protection program, just to make everyone think I was a total nerd.
I once drove an old beater station wagon to Canada and back for a fly in fishing trip. Had to bring a case of oil along. 2 quarts per fill up of gas. Never had to change the oil otherwise.
Yup, my first car was a 65 Plymouth Fury SW with an electric rear window and I thought I was cool with that! Many dates I would have to pick up in my dad’s small car and drive home to get my wagon.. girls parents didn’t appreciate the blacked out rear windows and the mattress in the back… I camped and fished a lot….
My beetle was 5 grand almost 10 years ago. Tripled in price if not quadrupled because I kept it 99% stock. I put disc brakes on the front, added a little faggy tach, and added a temperature sensing dipstick. Oh, and I put a spin-on oil filter system that may or may not decrease the value.
Of course I repaired a bunch of stuff like deck seals and put back the thermostat and louvers the former idiot had deleted. I’m in the process of getting the pre-heated breather back in working order… he had disabled that, too.
Absolutely.
(Embarrassing the kids would be an added bonus!)
@Brad
What is this worth? I’m considering buying one:
http://smclassiccars.com/plymouth/294246-71-cuda-340-4spd-with-ac.html
The day I invented drifting. Back in my 20’s I was a big time hot rod/street race guy. I had a 70 340 Mopar A body, perfectly balanced rotating assembly. That’s where horsepower starts. Anyway I’m parked in the inside lane of a double wide turn lane. Some old guy with a family in a Vista Cruiser pulls up. hand cranks down his windows and expressed extreme displeasure in the thumping going on thru my corvair turbos. Light changed and I dropped the hammer on the four speed car so hard I barely made the turn, Using all lanes. There was so much tire smoke in the air the old guy had no idea where he was going. I know, I’m an asshole. But I’m still taking credit for inventing drifting.
Jethro
I didn’t see a price. If you could pick it up cheap, under 30K yes. I draw the line on Mopars at 1970. I’d rather find a 340 in a light A body (Duster Dart). You’re an engineer so trust me when a machinist tells you the MOPAR small blocks were the best ever built, even though, they were two bold mains. When you see their main caps you’ll understand why I say that.
I bought a used 1973 Gran Torino when I returned from overseas duty. I was stopped at an intersection near Mile High Stadium in Denver when a girl in a smaller car rear ended me. I got out and the whole front end of her car was crushed. The rear bumper on Torino’s sat very high and built like a battleship. All she did to my car was rub the road grime off the bumper. There was not even a dent. She begged me not to report it because she really didn’t need another ticket and it was her brother’s car. I let her skate. Hope she had luck with her brother.
All day long.
As a kid, I always loved to sit in the rear-facing fold-up seat in the back of a station wagon making faces at the drivers in the cars behind.
When I started to drive, I always hated to be behind a station wagon with a kid in the rear facing fold-up seat making faces at me.
Karma’s funny that way.
I’m glad they don’t have THOSE any more, at least…
We had a fridge that color, I think.
I remember those station wagon “wood” panels bleached out in the southern sun before the first set of tires were bald.
@SNS – Haha! I still have one and my son loves goofing off at the cars following us. Most people are surprised to find a kid facing them. 1992 Toyota Camry wagon. We love that car. Nice and roomy. Great for road trips and camping.
My folks had a 1970’s Ford LTE wood paneled wagon. We thought it was super fancy because it had electric windows. All four of us kids slept halfway to Disney Land, while my parents argued, “just to stay awake.”
Those were the days!
I couldn’t afford the fuel burn.
Well, hell, yeah; I drive a ’65 Ranch Wagon, now! Heater delete, no power anything. Love that magnificent bastard!
It’s pretty weird just how much I love the artistry that went into car design. And car technology is fascinating!
My first car was a Studebaker Lark station wagon with the slider roof in the back and overdrive; 2 features that in their 1961 model were considered luxe. I paid $100.00 for it. I met the original owner of it when he hailed me on a downtown Olympia street. He’d used the car in his route sales between WA, OR, ID and MT. No wonder there were so many miles on it.
A couple of months ago I drove past a pristine ’62 white Cadillac Series 62 parked a few blocks north of the Pike Place Market. It was better than showroom condition. The top was down, too. Couldn’t believe anyone would park such a beauty on a downtown street — anywhere. I was going to stop and take pictures but didn’t. I found the exact car online; not one that looked like it, but the actual one. It had sold recently and the full description was still posted. I can’t find it now. I’d buy THAT for $50K before I’d buy a crummy “luxury” box. Everything looks like a Kia now.
I’d prefer one with a 351 Cleveland, but yes, I would.
It’s a 1972 so it’s before all the smog equipment took away power and gas mileage.
…and yes, I’d drive that car. Tonnage. “Cash for Clunkers” killed the used (old car) opportunities. Very sad.
No, but I would drive a Buick Regal Grand National to pick up groceries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CKDEXXEbNw
1985 Buick Electra Estate Wagon! Miss her every single day. Like driving on your living room sofa.
Where do I sign?
Heck yeah…..just to honk off the Lib-Tard environmentalist.
And I’d get a bumper sticker the read “It’s a Hy-bred, It Burns Gas and Oil”
It may be the only time I’d wear a mask in a car but just to hide my face.
I had a gran torino sport back
in the day, 351 cleveland and
vinyl roof. Nice
Fix Or Repair Daily
The Loni Anderson of cars
Been working on vintage cars all my life,Auburn boat tail to Zundapps. My favorite was a blue and white Nash Metro.
Sure, why not?