Ford Country Squire Wagon

[4barrel]

I had one that looked like this. 400 2 barrel. A real boat. They were not worth much used & people would laugh at you. I sold it to a friend of mine for $600 & he wonted to know how much oil it used. I told him none & he said <For that price there had to be something wrong>It did need a little repair to the brakes but that was it.

 

[Grayfox]

When we were dating and for a couple of years after we married, my wife had a 1968 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate station wagon. She bought it from her Mom when Mom bought a new car.
Pretty good car, but had some wiring problem in the tailgate. When you stuck the key in the tailgate and turned it, you never knew if the window would roll down or the brake lights would come on. I chased through the wiring several times, but never did find the short.
It was stolen one night while she was at work. I had just put new tires on it. All they took was the tires and the radio. It was found in a city park some hours later. Then the idiot wrecker driver dragged it up on a flatbed with no tires and ripped the bottom out of it. The car was totaled after that.
It was great when we were dating. You could fold down the back seat and the cargo area had just enough room.

Land yachts. Gotta love 'em!

 

[A-37]

Wagon Shortage

Other than Volvo and VW, I can't think of any other new wagons. Too bad.

Wagons just look right. The trendy crossovers and SUVs just don't cut it for me.

Oh, I get it; gotta have that AWD off-road capability for when you run off the parking lot pavement onto the grass at Walmart.

 

[spdguns]

Oh the memories. I had four brothers. All 7 of us would pile in our Impala wagon, then LTD wagon and off we'd go. This was well before the minivan.

 

[Broke Hoss]

1st family car I remember was a late 50's Chevy Nomad. Didn't have factory a/c so dad installed 1 that rode on the hump under the front dash. I remember it being frosted up most of the time.

Next was a mid 60's Impala s/w. It was solid black with red interior! Which was imbearable in Texas summer heat; so dad painted the roof white & mom made curtains for the cargo area windows. We nicknamed it "The Hearse".

I rode on a small box dad made that sat in the middle of the front seat of the Nomad. And the cargo area was a battlefield for my G.I. Joes. Safety 1st, you know.

 

[Salty RI]

I had two Country Squire's a 1970 and a 74, I liked the tail gate, it would go up and down or open like a car door, the 1970 was green and when the kid's talk about it today they call it the Family Truckster, we never put the MIL on the roof or tie the dog to the bumper.

 

[arjay]

We had a dark blue '68 dodge coronet.Learned to drive mountain passes in a blizzard in that baby [emoji1]
Even camped out a few winter nights in the vail parking lot [emoji42]

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...the Vista Cruiser from "That '70s Show"...

 

[wuluf]

My dad had a 72 country squire station wagon, it's the car I learned to drive in. And parallel park. In New York City. After that I can park anything, anywhere...

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...and...of course there's the "Family Truckster"...

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBN9Qilu8Y[/ame]

 

[italiansport]

One of my favorite station wagon stories deal with the legendary car collector Bill Harrah of Reno NV. Apparently he was driving around Reno one day in a very souped up station wagon and ended up behind an old lady poking down the street. He got right on her bumper and floored the wagon pushing her down the street at a high rate of speed in the process. He probably darn near gave her a heart attack but I never head of any repercusions!
Jim

 

[TheHobbyist]

Wow. There has been a lot of good nostalgia lately on this forum.

I remember in the Boy Scouts riding to campgrounds in either an old 80's station wagon or those large Bronco's....were they late 70's?

Anyways, they were very practical for travel. I imagine they didn't handle like corvettes but were very functional and I recall they were great on trips.

 

[BUFF]

My dad's last 2 cars were Mercury Colony Park wagons, both with wood paneling stick-ons. The earlier was the last year Merc offered the 460 V-8, it was maroon. Last one was dark blue with the 351 variable venturi carb that never ran properly.

He was a finish carpenter/cabinet maker and liked them because his tools were locked up rather than in a truck bed, and they were both big enough to take 4' X 8' sheets of plywood between the wheel wells with the seats folded down. They drove and rode a lot better than a pickup truck.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Family vacation c. 1968. Somewhere in Colorado, I think. 1966 Mercury Colony Park with patented "Floaterboat Ride" (they actually call it that). It was such a boat, it had it's OWN boat (on the roof), and our Sunbeam trailer. Four kids and a Beagle dog, and on at least one occasion.... a mother cat with kittens.

 

[bigwheelzip]

^^^^^^ The American Dream ^^^^^^^^^

 

[The Big D]

Cooooool!

I would put a bullet in my head (just kidding!) before driving a minivan, but station wagons ROCK!

Be safe

 

[muddocktor]

My Mom always had wagons when we were growing up. The first I remember when I was a little kid was some 1950's vintage Ford. Then in 1963 Dad got her a 63 Pontiac Catalina Safari wagon. In 1968 she then moved up to a 68 Ford Country Squire and was the main car I learned to drive. In 1973 she got a 73 Ford Country Squire to replace the 68 model and was the last wagon she had as we started growing up and moving out of the house. We were 5 kids growing up, so she really needed a wagon to haul the family around, especially on long trips.

 

[31FordA]

My family had four station wagons while I was growing up. The first was a 1977 Ford Pinto Squire wagon in 1981. In '85 we replaced it with a 1980 Pinto wagon, followed in 1990 by another 1980 Pinto wagon my dad bought out of junkyard for $400. Nothing wrong with the car, guess no one wanted it anymore. That Pinto stayed in service until 2005. We also had a 1970 Chevelle wagon from '88 until '90.

As maligned as Pinto's are, we never had a problem with them. Each of ours got to almost 200,000 miles, and not one burst into flames. When he got sick my dad was planning to build a 302 powered Pinto wagon, but he ran out of time. My brother had so many fond memories of the Pinto's that he bought another one last year, a 1979 wagon with the optional Cologne V-6.

 

[10xatten]

My first car was a 1960 Borgward Isabella Combi wagon, and I loved scooting around the woods in '60s Connecticut in it. Then I installed WWII BC603 tank receiver that had been retuned to receive local Police broadcasts from three towns, State Police, and Fire and ambulance broadcasts, and I took photographs and sold them to the local paper. Those were the days. I sold the Combi to buy a Sport Coupe Special.

 

[arjay]

My family had four station wagons while I was growing up. The first was a 1977 Ford Pinto Squire wagon in 1981. In '85 we replaced it with a 1980 Pinto wagon, followed in 1990 by another 1980 Pinto wagon my dad bought out of junkyard for $400. Nothing wrong with the car, guess no one wanted it anymore. That Pinto stayed in service until 2005. We also had a 1970 Chevelle wagon from '88 until '90.



As maligned as Pinto's are, we never had a problem with them. Each of ours got to almost 200,000 miles, and not one burst into flames. When he got sick my dad was planning to build a 302 powered Pinto wagon, but he ran out of time. My brother had so many fond memories of the Pinto's that he bought another one last year, a 1979 wagon with the optional Cologne V-6.

My father in law had a pinto in '79 or so.Poor guy was rear ended in it[emoji33] No fire,but he really tore up his shoulder trying to force the door open [emoji37]