Ford Mustang station wagon??

[Adam]

Mustang concepts through the years.




1966 Mustang station wagon concept car.





1979 Mustang II station wagon concept car.


It looks alarmingly similar to the Vega station wagon:

[scott]

It wasn't that much of a leap. Back then, there was demand for high power with room for kids and stuff. We had a Chrysler with a 318 Hemi and a Ford with a 454!

[Adam]

It wasn't that much of a leap. Back then, there was demand for high power with room for kids and stuff. We had a Chrysler with a 318 Hemi and a Ford with a 454!

Oh, no doubt. Mom's '71 Buick Estate had a 455 (and probably needed it; that damn thing probably weighed more than a Panzer). The trick is that a two-door wagon isn't really practical for hauling kids around. Sort of like trying to use an El Camino as an actual work truck.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

There were 2-door station wagons in the '50s. They worked fine. The door openings were huge, the seats tipped way forward, and we routinely put 4 kids in the back of a 1949 Mercury coupe, so a wagon would've been no problem.

The very one:

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[JB]

The 1979 model looks like something AMC would have built.

[Adam]

The 1979 model looks like something AMC would have built.

I almost said that it looked like the Pacer wagon, but the Vega just stood out to me. Mrs. Sanford (childhood babysitter from time to time; she was the mother-in-law to a neighbor across the street) had a Vega wagon that we used to ride around in. Babyshit yellow, noisy, rode about as comfortably as a deuce-and-a-half. But it was fun when we were kids.

[Frostbit]

It wasn't that much of a leap. Back then, there was demand for high power with room for kids and stuff. We had a Chrysler with a 318 Hemi and a Ford with a 454!

318 Hemi? Don't think so Buddy. The 318 was a wedge motor.

[Frostbit]

There were 2-door station wagons in the '50s. They worked fine. The door openings were huge, the seats tipped way forward, and we routinely put 4 kids in the back of a 1949 Mercury coupe, so a wagon would've been no problem.

The very one:

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My Brother would cut off his worthless left Nad for that Merc.

[Frostbit]

rode about as comfortably as a deuce-and-a-half. But it was fun when we were kids.

You must have had bad hips from birth. What kid ever noticed the "ride" of a vehicle?

[scott]

318 Hemi? Don't think so Buddy. The 318 was a wedge motor.

Details, details. It was a 318 V-8 in a station wagon and it beat every other $5000 car on the road even though it was only $1000.

And as it turns out, driving a station wagon is not always a bad thing if there are drive-in movie theaters around.

[Frostbit]

Details, details. It was a 318 V-8 in a station wagon and it beat every other $5000 car on the road even though it was only $1000.

And as it turns out, driving a station wagon is not always a bad thing if there are drive-in movie theaters around.

Nice deflection Buddy!! BTW, you would have to pull the wagon in backwards and drop the tailgate to watch the movie.

[scott]

Nice deflection Buddy!! BTW, you would have to pull the wagon in backwards and drop the tailgate to watch the movie.

And drop the back seats down to fit the mattress.


Yeah, I know.

[Frostbit]

And drop the back seats down to fit the mattress.


Yeah, I know.

Ever pull away and forget to take that damn nine ton speaker off the window?

[scott]

Ever pull away and forget to take that damn nine ton speaker off the window?

Ours had a radio channel so we never used the speakers.

Drive-ins were a whole lot of fun in high school. Kids these days are really missing out.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

My Brother would cut off his worthless left Nad for that Merc.

Yeah, well, after my folks raised 4 kids in it, he would've had to do a lot of restoration to make it even worth that. But it still ran like a charm. In fact, dad pulled the engine out and transplanted it into the 24-foot cabin cruiser we built off a set of Chris Craft plans, where it ran well for many more years.

My first car was a babyshit-green '65 Mustang I bought in '75 for $400. It had been raced and the stock 289 was blown so the guys who sold it to me had dropped in a '69 (IIRC) Boss 302. That thing would haul ass, even with the automatic transmission.