on a lighter note...

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

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[Nyati]

 

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[CoElkHunter]

It’s an optical illusion. That car is about 19 feet long and driver area is spacious to say the least.

The best part of some of those station wagons was the jump seat in the cargo area that faced backwards.


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Yeah, they were huge. My two brothers and I took my parent’s station wagon on a number of dove and duck hunting trips. On one occasion, we got stuck in the sand when dove hunting in the desert and it was 100F+ out. My youngest brother was about 10 at the time and started crying and said, “We’re going to die out here!”. Silly boy. Older brother me brought a shovel and dug us out. Good times but I traumatized them for life I fear. LOL

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

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[CoElkHunter]

Correct! Not sure I remember seeing an American made diesel family car from that era. I'll bet that vehicle couldn't pass a snail on the highway.

Yeah, no factory turbos on ANYTHING until the ‘90s. Until then, if you had a diesel and wanted to get out of your own way, you had to buy a Banks Turbo.

 

[CoElkHunter]

What brand is that beast? I grew up with my parents ‘67 Plymouth station wagon with a 383ci “Commando” engine.

Plymouth Fury 3 to be specific.

 

[Ridge Runner]

Tailgunner was the best seat...

As obnoxious kids would make faces at the drivers behind them.

With the extra space when the back seat was folded down, Drive-In movie theaters, "Lover's Lanes", etc, etc, were a lot more "interesting" during inclimate weather.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

My parents would just lay down the passenger seat and dispense gravel to us four boys for road trips. When/if we woke up it was time for rock-paper-sissors. That usually worked for a while until a sore loser threw a punch. 462 miles on a tank of gas? Bullshit! Their '63 Bel Air wagon with 235 cu inch six and 2-speed PowerGlide automatic never got anything but horrible mileage. If that wagon had been nothing but one big gas tank, I don't think it would have made it five hundred miles ... downhill.

Those PowerGlide transmissions were tough (tranny of choice among dragsters for years after GM stopped making them) but required at least a quarter mile of no traffic to pass a milk truck ... drawn by a horse. "Passing gear" did not exist in PowerGlide.

Edit: My bad. I see the ad was for 1981. GM abandoned the PowerGlide by 1969. Dad's pickup that year had a 327 V8 with 3-speed auto. Also horrible gas mileage due to the factory 4-barrel Holley Quadrajet carburetor. But that thing sure had get up and go. Coil springs all the way around made for a sweet ride ... until any load was thrown in the back. Then you had to herd it down the road between the ditches.

Rochester made the quadrajets not holley I’ve rebuilt a bunch of them for stock cars.