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My dad had a 1969 Ford LTD Country Squire with a 400 or 390, metalic blue with wood siding. I remember riding in the back. The smell of gas, laying down and looking out the back window. Land yacht. A local pawn shop had a 1972 sitting on the lot. It was white and needed a lot of work. I asked the price but they never would come to a consensus on the price.

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Over the years I've owned several station-wagons. That I can recall, a VW 411, 2 Ford LTDs (one had a 460 Police Interceptor engine), a Chevelle, a Pontiac Lemans, a Mercury Tracer (basically a Mazda 323), and one Ford Aerostar minivan (which was really just redesigned station wagon). Liked the extra enclosed hauling capacity for passengers or whatever...

They used to use station wagons as ambulances.

Firetrucks too

And for Ghostbustin'

As a kid I always thought riding in the rear facing seat in a station-wagon would be really cool. When I finally did get the chance at around 10 years old the rearward motion of sitting backwards and watching things get further away instead of closer made me dizzy, nauseous. Never again...That was the one and only time I ever rode in rear facing seats.

When did they quit them?

IDK, but I got to enjoy getting laid for the first time by an 18 year old big boobed beauty when I was barely 14 in the back of a '74 Pinto wagon with vinyl woodgrain.
Had a lot of fun in that little car !
It still sits at the families vacant old home place.

Sure would like to have a 65 Impala wagon with the 496……muscle wagons rocked.

I like the 72 Olds wagon too.

My Dad had several station wagons. The first that I remember was a Ford ? woody. I remember going to my grandparents home and there, Daddy Paige and Daddy replaced the wood with new plywood. Grandfather worked at the cottonseed oil mill and had all sorts of tools and know how. Daddy had mostly mechanics tools and no woodworking tools. It took most of the weekend and we drove it home that Sunday without the stain, just new wood.
The other 2 I recall were Chevys: a 54 green on green and a blue and white 59 with the fins and a 348? V8. After it quit he kept for awhile with intent to rebuild it. Never did cos he was a Ford and Mercury diehard. There were 4 boys and later, a girl added to the family. It took a wagon to haul us and all our stuff. A privet hedge switch was always across the front dash as standard equipment. I remember going to the drive in movies as a family,with a coffee can for us 4 boys in the back as a urinal. Yep, we were rednecks to the core.

this beauty is just sitting there for the takin

Oil embargo and the EPA did most of them in by 1980. Below is my 1977 Chrysler Town & Country (the last year before the name went to the minivan):

Station wagon story circa 1977: My folks were driving down the road in a brown 1966 Pontiac Catalina wagon, 389, turbo 400, 3 + 3 seating. Mom and Dad were in front w/ Dad driving. !7 year old brother, 8 year old sister, 7 and 5 year old brothers in the back seat.

This car had a top opening cargo compartment under the floor behind the second seat. The 17 year old reached over the back seat and opened that cargo cover, then helped the three younger siblings over the back of the seat and into the cargo space and dropped the lid on them.

Several minutes went by before Mom attempted to speak to little sister. She finally turned to look into the back seat to see just the 17 year old sitting there.

As you can imagine the reaction was spectacular.

The younger siblings listened to all the commotion for a minute or two and then popped out of the cargo compartment.

Mom seldom saw the humor when the joke was on her.

Buddy had an old Olds (I think) wagon. The read door slid down under the floor and the rear window went in under the roof. No tailgate.

Here it is. very slick. have no idea if they were nightmares