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Oct 20, 1999 · With the Mercedes priced at nearly $50,000, and the Audi at nearly $37,000, the middle range is the Volvo wagon, big enough for families who want a conventional station wagon with a back...
Nov 7, 2017 · The 189.7-inch-long wagon offered an optional third-row seat, and it came standard with a 2.2-liter inline-four packing 103 horsepower and 124 lb-ft of torque mated to a standard five-speed manual ...
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- Ford LTD Country Squire. Years produced: 1950-1991. Original starting price: $2,253. It had wood doors and side panels when it was introduced. Its “magic doorgate” flipped down like a truck tailgate or swung open like a door.
- Pontiac Safari. Years produced: 1956-1991. Original starting price: $3,140. This wasn't a car of its own, but Pontiac's designation for each of its wagons.
- Dodge Coronet. Years produced: 1965-1976. Original starting price: $2,650. The Coronet, as a family sedan and wagon with brawny V8 engines — including a 7-liter Hemi and a 7.2-liter, 440-cubic-inch Magnum — was rolling hubris, built on the belief that even families deserved some muscle under the hood.
- Chrysler Town & Country. Years produced: 1941-2016. Original starting price: $2,950. Before automakers covered their station wagons in fake wood paneling, Chrysler had the first real “woodie,” with actual wooden doors and side panels.
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7 years ago. Many relics from the past tweak our collective sense of nostalgia. And one of them is cramming into the back seats of station wagons. Nobody condemned parents when they threw a herd of kids into big sedans or wagons and headed off on family trips. The wedge principle applied: Cram enough kids into a back seat and they won’t move.
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4 NEW DE SOTO WAGONS FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM Smartest automobile for town and country is the ’57 De Soto station wagon! It’s so roomy and luxurious, and has all these great De Soto features: 1. De Soto Flight Sweep styling 2. TorqueFlite transmission 3. Triple Range push-button control 4. Torsion-Aim ride 5. Choice of three mighty V-8 engines (up to...
Heard what happened to the price of this one? This is, as you can see, a spanking-new BuickEstate Wagon — a trim and tidy traveler with an all-steel body, which moderns definitely prefer. It is powered with Buick’s mighty 322-cubic-inch V8 engine — hitting a record-high compression of 8.9 to 1 in the small-car-priced SPECIAL, and 9.5 to 1 in the hi...
Step into the wonderful world of AUTODYNAMICS. Now! Swept-Wing Wagons with the OBSERVATION LOUNGE! 1. It unleashes a hurricane of power 2. It breaks through the vibration barrier 3. It is swept-wing mastery of motion Who says station wagons are alike! Up comes Dodge with a string of swept-wing sweethearts just teeming with Autodynamic ideas. New id...
From the Observation Seat of your BIG, NEW PLYMOUTH SUBURBAN see how far behind the “other two” are Here’s a dazzling new kind of station wagon …the big Plymouth Suburban! 3 full years ahead! With exciting new features you can’t get on any other station wagon in the field! Just a few of the many important advances are shown on the opposite page. Yo...
You’ve never before known wagon work’n’fun like this. Easiest to get in and out of, big headroom, seats eight with rear-facing hideaway seat, full-size cargo space — but far shorter outside than the more expensive wagons. StudebakerLark turns, parks easily, maneuvers agilely in traffic, smaller (113-inch) wheelbase — a blessing to the long-sufferin...
… and this morning it brought home the groceries. ALSO SEE: Inside vintage 1950s grocery stores & old-fashioned supermarkets Routine household chores or a family celebration — it makes no difference to the versatile Plymouth station wagon. This combination of brawn and beauty is the biggest wagon in Plymouth’s field, with 95 cubic feet of cargo roo...
It’s “Home Sweet Ford” anywhere you roam in a new Ford wagon. There’s over 17% more living room “indoors.” And loadspace of the Country Sedan, above, is nearly 10 feet long — wide as a bowling alley! Single-operation tailgate makes it the easiest-to-load loadspace going. New indoor luxuries include a picture-window view … and sofa-soft seats all fa...
Savings reach new heights in this new Ford Ranch Wagon … designed for families living it up on a budget. All six Ford Wagons — Standard Six or Thunderbird V-8 — use regular gas, save you up to $40 a year on fuel alone! America’s wagon specialists have designed them new, like a hardtop. Living room comfortable with sofa-soft seats for up to nine. A ...
Feb 16, 2024 · 1956 Ford Custom Ranch Wagon, one of 42,317 built that year. 1957 Mercury. These 4-doors came as the Commuter, Colony Park, and Voyager, depending on trim and seating options. This one was posted as a Commuter, and if so, it’s one of about 11,990 sold in ’57. 1957 Sierra, Dodge’s moniker for their 4-door wagons.
Mar 15, 2024 · 1961 Studebaker Lark 2-door wagon, originally a US Forest Service vehicle. They all came without a back seat, just a angle-iron frame covered in plywood. Nice long load bed. 1962 Chrysler New Yorker wagon, special ordered with the Chrysler 300 letter-series dual carb V8!
