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Station Wagons

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Today we pretend like we no longer have station wagons. But we're up to our eyeballs in what we now call SUVs. Back in the day, the army Jeep was an SUV. Wagons were wagons, whether based on car chassis, or installed on truck chassis like this International Harvester.

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I spent more hours in the back of one of these than I care to admit... exactly like the photo:

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A Gran Torino Square, er, I mean Squire? Starsky and Hutch meet the Brady Bunch? Kind of a cramped third seat, but better than even the full size Shovrolets.

Dad always went full sized, until the gas crunch. I learned to drive in a Country Square.

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Why 1971-76 full sized GM wagons had useless third seats (or virtually no under floor storage)--and a major weight problem.



The fifteen seconds that process takes doesn't seem like much, until a rainy day.
 
A Gran Torino Square, er, I mean Squire? Starsky and Hutch meet the Brady Bunch? Kind of a cramped third seat, but better than even the full size Shovrolets.

Dad always went full sized, until the gas crunch. I learned to drive in a Country Square.

I hated always looking out the back, so I kept the seat folded down and put one of the throw pillows from the couch back there. I could sit, lay, look forward, sideways or backwards, lol...
 
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