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Aug 22, 2013 · Biggest Station Wagon Ever Built. Buick Estate Wagon 1974. From Wikipedia: At 5,182 lb (2,351 kg) shipping weight, or about 5,400 lb (2,400 kg) curb weight, the three-seat 1974 Estate Wagons are easily the heaviest Buicks ever built, even heavier than the Buick Limited limousines of 1936-42.
- 1937 Ford V-8 Station Wagon
- 1942 Chrysler Town & Country Car
- 1949 Buick Estate Wagon
- 1955 Pontiac Star Chief Custom Safari
- 1956 Rambler Cross Country
- 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 Fiesta/Buick Century Caballero Riviera
- 1960 Chrysler Town & Country
- 1963 Studebaker Lark Wagonaire
- 1964 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser/1965 Buick Sportwagon
- 1966 Ford Country Squire
American automakers farmed-out station wagon assembly to suppliers until the mid-1960s, but in 1936, Ford opened its own wagon plant in Iron Mountain, Michigan. That factory, in the state's Upper Peninsula, used raw material from "its vast timber operations near Lake Superior," according to David Traver Adolphus's article, "The American Woody," in ...
A curious mix of Art Deco and Martha's Vineyard cabin styling, the Town & Country became a staple over the next three decades of upper-middle class suburbs. It was the sort of wagon you might buy if even a well-equipped Ford V-8 could no longer meet your needs and desires. Chrysler touted the '42 Town & Country as "the only station wagon with an al...
Ionia Manufacturing in the eponymous town in Michigan built wagon bodies mostly for the various General Motors divisions, but also for Ford, Mercury, and Chrysler, before and after WWII. Buick's 1949 models—Roadmaster, Super, and Special—were all-new for the first time since the war, and Ionia built wagon bodies for the top-two models. The top-spec...
The 1955-57 Safari was Pontiac's version of the Chevrolet Nomad, which also ran for those three years, as a sporty two-door, two-row station wagon, priced at the top of the model lineup. Both cars were inspired by the1954 Chevy Corvette Nomad Motorama car, atwo-seattwo-door wagon, and perhaps even more than the '42 Chrysler Town & Country, these tr...
George Romney, chief of the newly formed American Motors Corp., future Michigan governor, and failed candidate for the 1968 GOP presidential nomination, shuttered Hudson not long after it merged with Nash-Kelvinator in 1954. The surviving Rambler marque continued to offer smaller, reasonably sized cars as the big three offered prairie schooners rou...
See a pattern here? To me, four-door hardtops are even more evocative of Mid-Century American automobilia than station wagons, and when you combine the two, I just can't resist. Ionia Manufacturing built the Olds and Buick hardtop wagons for just two model years, ending with 1958, but the over-the-top, late Harley Earl-era styling really makes them...
Chrysler didn't even offer a b-post station wagon alternative to the New Yorker Town & Country and Windsor Town & Country when they premiered in the 1960 model year. New Yorker Town & Countrys were America's most prestigious production station wagons from the 1950s to the early '80s. The '60 New Yorker Town & Country was powered by a 350-hp, 413-cu...
Famed industrial designer Brook Stevens designed a sliding roof panel as a kind of mid-cycle update for the new-for-1960 Studebaker Lark wagon. It opened the top from just behind the thin c-pillar, to the back. The idea was you could haul home tall items, say, a new Sears Kenmore refrigerator, placed upright on the cargo floor. We expect at least a...
If you can't have a pillarless hardtop, why not a Vista Roof (Olds) or Skyroof (Buick)? The '64 model year was the last in which Ionia Manufacturing built Olds and Buick full-size wagons. These two in-house assembled cars essentially replaced them. While the Vista Cruiser and Sportwagon shared their bodywork forward of c-pillars with the F-85/Cutla...
Ford called itself The Wagonmaster in those days, and I'm singling out the '66 model because it was the first with the Magic Doorgate. The one-piece tailgate with power window was hinged so that it could open like a conventional tailgate, or like a door, with an upper and lower hinge on the driver's side. The third-row option was unique to Fords an...
Mar 30, 2010 · Moline Wagon Co. built the world's largest wagon for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, but sources disagree on the wagon's actual size. Was it 21 feet long or 42? Could it hold 320 bushels of grain or 640?
Jun 3, 2015 · 74 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Wagons were the heaviest, while the 76 Buick Estate Wagons were the longest. Not sure how long a Caddy Wagon would be, but that would be considered a conversion Wagon. And if we are going to count conversion Wagons then we can't count out the 71-76 GM Airport Limo Wagons.
The 1971-1976 Grand Safari station wagons are among the largest Pontiac vehicles ever built, with a 127-inch wheelbase and 231.3-inch length. At a curb weight of approximately 5300 pounds, a three-row version is also the heaviest vehicle ever produced by the brand.
Jul 20, 2018 · Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. General Motors produced the Vista Cruiser from 1964 to 1977, and it was their bestselling, most popular station wagon. It is also one of the models that perfectly describes suburban America in the ’60s and ’70s. The Vista Cruisers were all large and could seat up to nine people.
Among the more notable brands are Peter Schuttler, Weber, Louis Palm, and Columbus. Even Henry Mitchell (Mitchell Wagons) who ultimately made Racine, Wisconsin his home, started out in Chicago. Of course, St. Louis often receives accolades as a major center for early transportation and the city certainly deserves the ‘Gateway to the West ...
