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Parents loved them and teenagers
hated them — especially if they had just
received their drivers license and were handed
the keys to the family station wagon. Nothing
could be more embarrassing than picking up your
friends in "that thing". It did not
happen to me, but it did to my younger brother
after I had left the "nest". Not fond
of my parent's "white elephant" Plymouth
Suburban, he asked them if he could get it repainted
at his expense. A color was agreed on, but when
he returned home they were shocked to see their
car painted bright orange! Somehow he got away
with it.
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By not having endured the experience
of my brother, I was more open to the usefulness
of station wagons when I discovered that my sporty
Datsun was too small. The great deals in literature
and parts at swapmeets that would not fit in the
trunk and back seat sent me to the Chevrolet dealer
for a full size station wagon. Later I added a
trailer hitch and rear air shocks. With an air
mattress in the back I could even sleep overnight
at a swapmeet or on a camping trip. After 11 years
of service I did what most station wagon owners
did — traded it in on the modern equivalent,
a minivan.
For all of you who grew up with station wagons
as a kid, or as parents, or as someone who used
them as work horses, we present the second most
popular body style of the 1940s through the 1970s
— the station wagon.
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Plymouth (1941) |
Chevrolet (1942) |
Plymouth (1942) |
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Crosley (1948) |
Chrysler (1949) |
Ford (1950) |
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Plymouth (1950) |
Plymouth (1950) |
Plymouth (1950) |
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Austin (1950) |
Chrysler (1951) |
Ford (1951) |
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Nash (1951) |
Nash (1952) |
Allard (1952-54) |
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Ford (1953) |
Desoto (1954) |
Dodge (1954) |
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Buick (1955) |
Ford (1955) |
Nash (1955) |
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Nash (1956) |
Borgward (1956) |
Ford (1956) |
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Mercury (1956) |
Plymouth (1956) |
Nash (1956) |
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Nash (1957) |
Plymouth (1957) |
Mercury (1957) |
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Plymouth (1957) |
Pontiac (1957) |
Mercury (1958) |
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Plymouth (1958) |
Chevrolet (1958) |
Dodge (1958) |
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AMC (1958) |
Ford (1958) |
Ford (1958) |
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Dodge (1959) |
Ford (1959) |
Mercury (1959) |
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Mercury (1960) |
Plymouth (1960) |
AMC (1960) |
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Ford (1960) |
Citroen (1960) |
Buick (1960) |
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AMC (1960) |
Chevrolet (1961) |
Amc (1961) |
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Auto Union (1961) |
Ford (1961) |
Buick (1962) |
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Dodge (1962) |
Studebaker (1962) |
Auto Union (1962) |
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Chevrolet (1963) |
Chrysler (1963) |
Studebaker (1963) |
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AMC (1963) |
Austin (1963) |
Chevrolet (1964) |
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Oldsmobile (1964) |
Studebaker (1964) |
Datsun (1964) |
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Dodge (1964) |
AMC (1965) |
Pontiac (1965) |
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Plymouth (1965) |
Citroen (1965) |
Buick (1966) |
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Chevrolet (1966) |
Datsun (1966) |
Ford (1966) |
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Pontiac (1967) |
Buick (1967) |
Chevrolet (1967) |
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AMC (1967) |
Datsun (1967) |
Ford (1967) |
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Chevrolet (1968) |
Pontiac (1969) |
Dodge (1969) |
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Chevrolet (1969) |
Ford (1969) |
Oldsmobile (1969) |
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Chevrolet (1969) |
Datsun (1970) |
Ford (1970) |
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Pontiac (1971) |
Pontiac (1971) |
Pontiac (1971) |
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Plymouth (1971) |
Pontiac (1972) |
Dodge (1972) |
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Plymouth (1972) |
Chevrolet (1972) |
Ford (1972) |
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AMC (1972) |
Datsun (1973) |
Plymouth (1973) |
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Ford (1973) |
AMC (1973) |
Oldsmobile (1974) |
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Plymouth (1974) |
Chevrolet (1974) |
Ford (1974) |
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AMC (1974) |
Chevrolet (1975) |
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