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kmakar
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Just gotta keep rubbing that salt in huh....LOL, Man I love that wagon.
She's so fine, my L79........
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That was some cool cars everyone sent in.Our family car was a Parkwood or Brookwood 61 Chevy wagon (Impala type).The first road trip was a 2 week vacation to Parris Island SC to visit my Mothers 1st cousin family with their 3 kids. She was a Drill Instructors wife.We had so much fun at that place I told my Father to join up and become a DI too, so we could live there too.First off he told me I was crazy (He spent 3 & 1/2 years walking all over Europe in WW2,carrying a 30 cal.machine gun no less) what'd I know I was 6 or 7.Then he explained how you just don't pick what you want when you enlist in the service.
Anyway's our 61 Chevy wagon went somewhere every summer loaded up with us and stuff for 11 years before we gave it to my older Brother who promptly destroyed it.Thanks for letting me reminisce.
That was a great video but I don't like it when they start rumors that aren't true.Talking about the Chevelle wagons (starting around 6:20) the announcer says it was available with bib block power however I don't think an A body wagon got a big block till 1970 if I'm not mistaken ? I know the B body's had available BBC's but the Chevelle line nope.....until later on.
Why did GM stop making the 2 dr. wagons they were so cool and the Nomad types were so elligent across the 4 different top lines even I bet a 64 or5 2 dr. LeMans wagon would've been like a GTO wagon imagine that ????????
Anyway's our 61 Chevy wagon went somewhere every summer loaded up with us and stuff for 11 years before we gave it to my older Brother who promptly destroyed it.Thanks for letting me reminisce.
That was a great video but I don't like it when they start rumors that aren't true.Talking about the Chevelle wagons (starting around 6:20) the announcer says it was available with bib block power however I don't think an A body wagon got a big block till 1970 if I'm not mistaken ? I know the B body's had available BBC's but the Chevelle line nope.....until later on.
Why did GM stop making the 2 dr. wagons they were so cool and the Nomad types were so elligent across the 4 different top lines even I bet a 64 or5 2 dr. LeMans wagon would've been like a GTO wagon imagine that ????????
Chevelle_Nut
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Parris Island, SC one hot place in the summer.
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WAGONS-WAGONS-WAGONS....when you're that young you don't feel nothing but playtime.There was a creak with a rope swing to get across it and a field with a fence.....yeah right.... and a bunch of retired planes sitting there to look at and possibly explore and the pool had an apparatus with something that replicated an airplane going nose first into a body of water plus a 25' tower to jump off of,who cares about hot when you're almost 7.
Wait sorry to get off topic because this post is about Station wagons and I for one am sorry they didn't make more.Sorry it seems the older I get the more I ramble.
Wait sorry to get off topic because this post is about Station wagons and I for one am sorry they didn't make more.Sorry it seems the older I get the more I ramble.
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In 86 I had a great 72 Vista Cruiser my MIL left on the side of the road for whatever reason, she had a 65 or 6 Dodge Polara too so I picked it up from impound, she signed the title over and we drove it for awhile but I also had a 76 TA, a 68 Chevy 1/2 ton PU 307 3 on the tree so when we decided to move out of state I gave the Vista to a friend to build me a moving trailer out of an old MH frame I had, I bought materials lol
Another wagon was my moms in 75, she had a 69 Ford Colony Park? but huge wagon with a 429 that she came to my dads house in Fl. in 75 when he wasn't home and I took off with her and my uncle, his GF and my 5 half bros & sisters for a 9 month road trip of sorts from Fl to Oh to Az ( we also took my 18 yr old cousin Randy to Az) and back to Oh where I finally called my dad and said I wanted to come home lol Nuff Fun haha, he said Im not coming to get you find your own way so I hitch hiked, but had great memories in that Ford wagon and lots of miles cramped up in the car along with big trash bags of clothes, my 12 yr old bro getting pissed about some thing in Albuquerque NM and running off (think he wanted something diff to eat at a DT ) but what a memory and this is only a small bit of it 
kmakar
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Another wagon was my moms in 75, she had a 69 Ford Colony Park? but huge wagon with a 429 that she came to my dads house in Fl. in 75 when he wasn't home and I took off with her and my uncle, his GF and my 5 half bros & sisters for a 9 month road trip of sorts from Fl to Oh to Az ( we also took my 18 yr old cousin Randy to Az) and back to Oh where I finally called my dad and said I wanted to come home lol Nuff Fun haha, he said Im not coming to get you find your own way so I hitch hiked, but had great memories in that Ford wagon and lots of miles cramped up in the car along with big trash bags of clothes, my 12 yr old bro getting pissed about some thing in Albuquerque NM and running off (think he wanted something diff to eat at a DT ) but what a memory and this is only a small bit of it
Damn, sounds like you lived a lifetime in 9 months.....
Chevelle_Nut
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Today's SUVs don't have the same feel as a family wagon. TV shows of the time all featured wagons. The Brady Bunch trip to the Grand Canyon with their Satellite wagon and pop-up in tow is an iconic episode. All 9 people in the car, roof rack loaded weighted down running on dirt roads, that is the USA many of us grew to love.
This one speaks to me....
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Many years ago at a Chevelleabration, there was a guy with a '65 wagon with one of those Vista Cruise glass roofs on it. Very cool. The next year, the same guy had a '69 Chevelle SS396 2 door wagon. And another guy had a '65 Chevelle with a coupe door on the left and two sedan doors on the right side. Way beyond my skill set...
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Another wagon was my moms in 75, she had a 69 Ford Colony Park? but huge wagon with a 429 that she came to my dads house in Fl. in 75 when he wasn't home and I took off with her and my uncle, his GF and my 5 half bros & sisters for a 9 month road trip of sorts from Fl to Oh to Az ( we also took my 18 yr old cousin Randy to Az) and back to Oh where I finally called my dad and said I wanted to come home lol Nuff Fun haha, he said Im not coming to get you find your own way so I hitch hiked, but had great memories in that Ford wagon and lots of miles cramped up in the car along with big trash bags of clothes, my 12 yr old bro getting pissed about some thing in Albuquerque NM and running off (think he wanted something diff to eat at a DT ) but what a memory and this is only a small bit of it
How the hell old were you,hitch hiking home from Oh to Fla ?
Chevelle_Nut
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I knew a guy in the 70s that cut a gas can apart for a suitcase, wore good clothes and walked the Interstate, people fought to give him a ride.
is that a 396, 427 or 454 emblem?, I logged on and see it's an L36 427 with Muncie 4 spd but can't see the clutch pedal or shifter? be a cool wagon to have and road trip...well with gas at Crazy prices maybe not too many milesThis one speaks to me....
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I'm putting my middle finger up to the gas prices, made a couple long distance trips the past month. Truth is, I enjoy driving and it's good quality time with your choice of co-pilots. If not now, when? My budget has a kitty for gas now, lessens the sting.