JCC Station wagons of the 1970s and 1980s

Great thread.

 

The Ford Pinto wagon, the very flower of American automotive engineering. Four-wheel standard brakes
and a fuel tank located directly in front of the rear bumper. Business Week named it on its Ugliest Cars of
All Time list: Time magazine named it on its Fifty Worst Cars of All Time list. Forbes Magazine also named
it on their Worst Cars of All Time list.



They were good for killing nazis, however.

 

I inherited my grandfather´s 1969 Pontiac Catalina station wagon. Not technically a station wagon of the 1970s, but I drove it in the 1980s.

 

I remember riding in my babysitter's station wagon when I was younger. Whenever they (my babysitters were a pair of adult sisters) needed to take kids anywhere in town, they loaded up the kids in it.

 

The important thing to remember is that all the kids rode in the far back without seatbelts.

 

That is hella pimp.

 

We had a Ford Country Squire. Not sure of the year but the pic at the link looks a lot like it, even down to the color.

 

1964 Pontiac Bonneville Safari 9 passenger wagon stuck in sand on Morro Bay, California since 1973.



Shame. They made less than 5,500 of them; they sell for about $35,000 today.

 

If you feel so inclined, you can get this Hot Wheels vehicle now:

 

Not only that, but we got to make faces and do other naughty things to the drivers behind us without our parents knowing.

 

I loved those.

When I was a kid my mom got rid of hers for a Mustang and I was pissed.

 

We had a big white hatian wagon with this little fold down seat in the tail end. Like that was safe.

 

This thread is more American than George Washington ****ing a bald eagle.

 

Can we use this thread to talk about cars that aren't station wagons, but are unique to the 70s/80s? Because when I was little, my family's car was a Chevette, and I remember my parents taking us kids to the drive-in near our house in that thing.

 

We had a Lincoln or a Ford when I was a kid. When I was a little bit older my dad bought an AMC eagle for my older brother to drive. That thing was awesome.