My dad bought a Pontiac Safari in the seventies. My brother hates station wagons to this day b/c of it. I thought it was cool at the time, but I was a kid. We actually packed 1500 pounds of split firewood into that sucker once. My sister had a wreck it, and there was nothing more than a scratch on it — the other car was totaled. We called it "the tank."
How ’bout you ? Ever had one in the family ? If so, how ’bout a cool story ?
I love, love, love station wagons!!!! I’m serious! I’ve had three, and I’ve only owned seven cars in my life. They’ve all been GM midsizers, a ’78 Pontiac Lemans, an ’85 Buick Century and the current one, which is a ’90 Olds Cutlass Cruiser which I’ve been happily driving since 2000. They’ve all been named Bucky, and it has suited each to a T. None of them has ever stranded me or let me down. I love them immeasurably. I don’t know what I’m going to do when this one dies, besides cry. There is no car in the world that I love as much as I do these particular wagons. If I were suddenly rich I would start seeking them out, all across the country. I’d bring them home and treat them nice and live happily, knowing that I would never truly have to die alone.
Pretty much like this:
http://www.cars-directory.net/history/oldsmobile/cutlass_cruiser/
Oh and, by the way, it’s a little known fact that station wagons are just pickup trucks in disguise. Can’t you just hear "Redneck Girl" in the background now?
Incidentally, I grew up in VWs, including these gems:
http://www.vdubcampers.co.uk/pages/forsale.htm
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Mogipbob#p/u/4/LN7tLj1Tn4c
Okay, sorry, I couldn’t help myself . . .
It’s probably what makes wagons look so good . . .
yeah, we had one and it had that wood panel on the side of it…we use to make our mom drop us off a block from the school cause we were embarrassed..i’d drive one now and not be embarrassed
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animostik need best answer his story was hilarious!!!
I had one, moved my whole belongings halfway accross the country.
my Dad had a new 58 nomad
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We had several when I was a kid. With 4 kids and a couple of dogs to haul around, they just made sense. One was a ’71 Dodge wagon. I used that car to get my first driver’s license. And I hit another car while driving it while on the way home from passing that driver’s license test…
My uncle had an Olds Vista Cruiser, or maybe a couple of them. They had even more kids. This one had the 3rd seat in the far back, and the cool little windows at the top where the sides curved into the roofline. We always thought that was so cool!
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My family never owned a station wagon but I did buy my wife a little Mercury station wagon back in the early 80′s it was always breaking down. LOL
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thru the years when i was a kid,my dad had a 1950 plymouth delux wagon,a 1958 chevy impala 9 passenger wagon,a 1964 chevy impala wagon,and a 1969 ford country squire 9 passenger wagon,and it was a tank. in 1975 i bought a brand new mercury wagon,like a pinto. what a piece of junk,sold it after a year.
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My parents had a 1981 Chevrolet Caprice station wagon. The back door had a Caprice nameplate, but, the dashboard had an Impala nameplate. The owners manual that came with the car was for a Caprice sedan of a different model year. My mom took out a ticket-gate arm at the airport parking lot with it. My dad hit a deer and for some reason the windshield wipers quit working on it. Later that week my mom slid off the road and hit a road sign, then the window wipers started working again. Over time the vinyl started to come apart and the back window didn’t always work. You had to hit a large enough pothole to get it to go up or down.
I spent much of my childhood riding around in it whilst my parents drove to various cities for business reasons. Around 1984 the state of New York enacted their seatbelt law. It was good timing as that same year some nit-wit in a Ford Pinto blew a light and my dad plowed into the side of it. There wasn’t that much damage to the wagon, but the frame got bent pretty bad, so it was totaled.
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I love, love, love station wagons!!!! I’m serious! I’ve had three, and I’ve only owned seven cars in my life. They’ve all been GM midsizers, a ’78 Pontiac Lemans, an ’85 Buick Century and the current one, which is a ’90 Olds Cutlass Cruiser which I’ve been happily driving since 2000. They’ve all been named Bucky, and it has suited each to a T. None of them has ever stranded me or let me down. I love them immeasurably. I don’t know what I’m going to do when this one dies, besides cry. There is no car in the world that I love as much as I do these particular wagons. If I were suddenly rich I would start seeking them out, all across the country. I’d bring them home and treat them nice and live happily, knowing that I would never truly have to die alone.
Pretty much like this:
http://www.cars-directory.net/history/oldsmobile/cutlass_cruiser/
Oh and, by the way, it’s a little known fact that station wagons are just pickup trucks in disguise. Can’t you just hear "Redneck Girl" in the background now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5brntYzVsk
Incidentally, I grew up in VWs, including these gems:
http://www.vdubcampers.co.uk/pages/forsale.htm
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Mogipbob#p/u/4/LN7tLj1Tn4c
Okay, sorry, I couldn’t help myself . . .
It’s probably what makes wagons look so good . . .
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My parents’ first station wagon was a Ford, I think. I remember it as being brown and tan. When we would go on vacation, someone would "get" to sit in the rear, and whoever chose to do that invariably got carsick. We rode in the back with the luggage, and to this day, I can’t stand the smell of Samsonite.
We drove our Buick station wagon to California to visit my aunt and uncle. My parents – foolishly it turned out – let my cousin and I drive it to the fair. When we left, I decided the safest way to back out was to open the car door and look out. Needless to say, I tore the door off.
Of course, the small town my cousin lived in didn’t have a mechanic that was capable of fixing it, so we did a three day drive with the driver’s side door welded on. It was a while before I was allowed to drive again…
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We had a hay wagon but I don’t remember a station wagon
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my parents had a caprice wagon and so did i
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