@@markreimer3852 LOL!!!!!!!!!!! you nailed it, perfectly!! I can hear my Dad saying that right this second - and there were many times he did just that!
@@francoisd6942 all those kids in there and not one with a safety belt on. and yeah I'm old enough to have had a dad with one of these. We took it on vacation and everywhere else.
Seat belts?? Kids car seats?? Ah hell, who needed them back then?? I had fun riding in the back of my dad's Oldsmobile F-85 station wagon, and rode in the bed of his 1968 Ford F-100 pickup truck. Thoes were good old times!!
If 40 million people can live on this continent in houses covered with fake wood siding then why can't I buy a wagon with a little 'paneling' on the sides?
My dads family went on a trip in a 65 squire his dad (My grandpa) borrowed from a friend around 1967, the car had a 390 4 barrel carb. My dad said he remembers watching the fuel gauge slowly go down every couple of minutes. They probably spent a good 40-50 bucks in gas (about $432.80 today) throughout that trip. They went from Kansas City to Houston Texas
They probably spent $10 dollars at the time at most. Fuel was less than .50 cents a gallon back then. It would be like having gasoline at like $2.00 a gallon today. Fuel and cars were super cheap. No Apple car play, air bags in all corners, air conditioning was mainly optional, emissions were near non existent, and the quality of materials was far from bispoke. I believe your dad when he said that needle moved however. A 390 V8 4 barrel pushing people and luggage in a giant station wagon worked that motor for sure.
That 390 was either 275 or 300 and possibly 335hp and 427 ft lbs torque. It didn't struggle at all. Did it get 10 mpg, yes. If they had the overdrive transmissions of even the early 80s and even a throttle body fuel injection the milage would have been more than double. This wagon weighs no more than a modern Dodge Challenger or Ford Explorer or GM Envoy. Modern ignition and fuel management and transmissions just didn't exist yet in 65.
Nothing bad could happen to those kids coloring in the back since they like 25 feet away from the front, and cars were only hit from the front back then. The Old Man had a 1964 Falcon four door wagon. He didn't believe in going fast so it had a 1.4 liter six that pumped out maybe 85 hp. It had the terrible two speed Ford-o-matic transmission. That combination gave a car that got about 26 mpg and couldn't get out of its own way. It might have had a 0-60 time of 23 seconds downhill with a tailwind. Kids on those new Raleigh 10 speed bikes could go faster. I was 16 at the time and passed my license test in that thing. It was the most embarrassing thing you could imagine to use for a date. It didn't even have a radio. I had to stick my 8 transistor Zenith on the dash with a magnetic mount if I wanted music. Thankfully, I had saved my money and was able to get a '57 Chevy Bel Air hardtop in late 1964. Black with a red interior and eaten up with rust but it still looked good with about three coats of wax, and it was a babe magnet even then.
@@pit_stop77 what "risk"? We had a station wagon JUST like the one in the video for YEARS and nothing bad or "risky" ever happened to us.. and why? Because our parents knew the proper way to drive and didn't drive around in a big almighty rush to nowhere like everyone does now...
@@hankaustin7091 Did it ever occur to you that how ever carefully you drive, some other might not and for example t-bones your ass running a red light in an intersection while speeding. No matter what your personal "driving safety" rating is, there are ample a lot of people to ruin your day for you.
Those side-facing third row seats lasted through the final, 1991 big Ford wagons. Stranger Things season 3 sees the ones in a "1983" (actually played by an '87) Mercury Colony Park put to use.
My first car 1965 yellow Ford wagon just like this one without wood on the side> Loved that car I bought used for $250 in 1975 had about 40k miles on it.
Starting in 1966 you could order the 428...great engine BUT...there was a small splicing of rubber hose from the metal line from the fuel supply to the nipple of the carburetor. If it wasn't inspected and replaced when needed, if it ruptured, it would pump gasoline all over the top of the engine until it hit the hot exhaust maniforld, and boom! engine compartment fire. Our town had a number of 428 wagon fires. My parents' 67 T-Bird with a 428 caught fire the same way ...though we stopped it in the nick of time. Ford was so dumb with details sometimes.
The only thing cooler than a Country Squire back then was a Mercury Colony Park. Yeah, it was the same mechanically as the Ford, but somehow it was much more glamorous and tasteful, at least to me. Mercury even advertised it as, "if Lincoln built a wagon, this would be it!"
I know what you mean, my uncle had a fully equipped 69 Colony Park and it was just for whatever reason a much cooler ride than any other wagon out there.
@@kennethsouthard6042 local company had a 69 squire with every option. 429 vid windows locks tilt air. Rack put radar mags on it posi rear wood smoke the bias tires for a city block if you left it in low
I want a 65 Country Sedan light blue with a 289. Wish I could afford to buy one and had a garage, I have a shed smh I used to have a 66 Country Sedan, you can fit 12 people in one. Try that with today's ugly SUVs lol
HOW did the #BabyBoomers kids survive their childhood? No seat belts in the back, no air bags, windows down, bare feet hanging out of the tailgate window....
Many traffic accidents resulted in folk being killed or maimed , but that came with the territory . We had a few deaths and facial disfigurements happen in our family in the fifties and sixties .
I love these wagons, but when you drive with the back window down the exhaust gas gets sucked in and can make your eyes water so you dont usually do that.
No, one totally did that, as the electric back window could be operated from inside the back, hence it was in control of whichever 5 year old sat there. Besides, one gets used to the fumes after a while. Lol. No, truth is that the "Magnificent air grabbers on the side of the rear pillars...."- pulled mostly fresh air into the back. So it actually worked without the fumes. A feature lost to time.
You didn't hardly get any carbon monoxide in there because the vent windows and all four door windows were usually down, so that the air flowed thru and out the back window. If the door windows weren't open, yeah you got some exhaust smell. Most people had the 4-60 air conditioning going though.
I'd much rather suffer until I restore one of these wagons than buy a new car because I know damn well which I'd prefer to drive and which one would give me more joy
My dad bought one new back in the day. My favorite part was the power rear window and tailgate that opened down or sideways like a door. I've always liked wagons. I drive a 2005 Dodge Magnum R/T. But I sure don't have 90+ cubic feet of storage. I remember my dad putting wood looking contact paper on the side when the factory wood grain whatever faded. Cheap fix
What? No child safety seats? What? No air bags? No seat belts for the back seat passengers? Try selling something like this today. In spite of all that criticism, this is an incredibly beautiful car.
@@bighands69 ..people are in general lousier drivers now than they were back then, I think in large part to all the nanny features and "technology" on modern vehicles..and the fact you can't see out of them...and I think that people just drive too d@mn fast now..I don't mean just like on the freeways, but on 2 lane roads, through the middle of town, etc., which is worse...I rode in ALL our family cars back in the 1970's to early 1980's without seatbelts...the earlier ones didn't have seatbelts, the later ones had them, but nobody wore them...and I rode in the back of dad's pickup every summer, all summer...and I survived, most of my generation did, too...
@@dyer2cycle I think modern cars are more disconnected from the driving experience and also drivers attitudes play a part as well. Those modern crash ratings as not what people think they are. They tend to be done at speeds of about 20 to 30 miles per hour. Most people in these cars are driving at 50 and 60 miles per hour and some at speeds much higher. And they are then making reckless decisions on top of that. Modern cars are also much faster so that people have no real sense of speed in them.
@@bighands69 ..yes, I agree about the disconnect and having no sense of speed in them in particular..I think they are geared really high, for fuel economy, and people are wheeling about town in them at speeds that are way too high for the conditions without really realizing it..and it seems law enforcement mostly ignores this nowadays, also...and I have observed that people rely way too much on their brakes now, too..when i was learning to drive, you started slowing down well before you reached a stop sign, intersection, traffic light, etc. Now it seems everybody whizzes up to a stop sign full tilt, then stabs their brakes on at the last second..makes it hard to tell if they are actually going to stop or not.... :(
@@dyer2cycle Yes when approaching a stop sign you would be taking the car down through the gears and not slamming on the brakes at the last moment. It is getting to the point now that you cannot tell if a car is going to pull out in front of you and you will see many overstepping the line as they have approached too fast. Another thing I cannot stand is seeing people come up to a junction and treating it like a merging lane when they should be fully stopped.
I remember those good old days of riding in the back of a station wagon as a 5-year-old kid. Today's kids are strapped down, without much to see or do for miles, in a big SUV with windows often too high for them to even see outside. When did our freedom get stolen from us?
Now kids either watch videos on mounted screens or have their eyes glued to their smartphones. They don’t see where they’re going or how to get there. They will be in driverless vehicles in the near future and won’t learn to navigate or have a sense of direction.
@@MC-vo7vt I remember enjoying watching all the changing scenery, also while listening to the radio of the popular rock/pop/folk music. I feel sorry for kids, they dont do that as much today. I believe it is important for them to think their thoughts and see the world around them.
Useless Infobyte: Australian Falcon wagons from this era had a unique body that was considerably shorter than the US model as the rear overhang was deemed a risk of fouling while passing through table drains (farmers were a key demographic.)
Today's full and midsize SUVs should offer five/six passenger option like these wagons offered . Not everyone wants or needs a bus with ground clearance and four wheel drive. Cargo space is just as important as peaple space.
i really wanna buy one of these classic vintage american proper station wagons cuz these were family trips to grow up ill get one and just gonna make it 4 or 5 speed manual transmission cuz modern ones they dont look nothing like true wagon shut be so fuck modern cars i want classid vintage old cars look at them THEY ARE PERFECT !!!!
In 1983 the 66 country squire's motor mounts broke and it was traded for a ford escort wagon ,Trade- in value $250 . The escort was a headache for the next five years then traded for a 1988 Toyota pickup $50 trade value, after half a dozen head gasket failures! The Toyota lasted 11 years and over 500 K miles and hit a tree on a rainy night, what a sad end for such a reliable work horse!
@@rogerbahakel8130120 K and the only repair was a bolt that held ac compressor came loose and fell off. The motor mounts wore out from my 18 yr. old brother driving like he stole it. Empty headed teenager was the demise of a very well made 390 powered Country Squire.
Those motor mount cushions are held to the block with 2 bolts and to the frame mount with one nut, on an FE engine. Back then, about $6.00 each and when on a lift like almost all service stations had, a fair mechanic could replace them both on a cool engine in about an hour. Maybe $20 labor.
We had a 1972 & I loved sitting in the far back. I had forgotten the fold down seats were lockable. Than in the 80's the mini van came along which I think slowly killed the station wagon.
@Santor- 65 at Ford.I think it had to be on the upper level model like the Country Squire, possibly the Country Sedan, I doubt you could get it on the base level Ranch Wagon.I think it was 69 at Chrysler.
@@davidkeeton6716 we had the country squire, top of the line I suppose, even though it was old already by the time we got it. What's more interesting , to me atleast, is how Ford enabled driving around with the rear window down, and NOT get the exhaust fumes into the car. The side scoops on the real pillars funneled fresh air into the vacuum by the rear window, which was stated to also help keep the window clean, in the brochures. It certainly worked, we drove with the rear window down all the time. As kids, we operated the rear window switch on the inside of the gate all the time.
In 63 and 64 the Chrysler Town and Country wagon was a 4 door hardtop. My father had one. It had a 361 in it. We drove from DC to Birmingham Alabama and then on to Panama City Beach Florida many times from 64 to 70, when he got a 70 Town and Country. Both of those were great cars, with few issues in the combined 250k miles we put on them.
Beautiful cars. But not very safe for all of the kids. That’s just the way it used to be. Today we have very safe cars, but lost all of the style and class of the old rides.
We had a 1970 Country Squire, those rear seats are perfect for fighting with your brother.
we had the 70 Ranch Wagon.. the poor cousin to the Country Squire.. and yes, exactly right about those rear seats LOL!
@@markreimer3852 LOL!!!!!!!!!!! you nailed it, perfectly!! I can hear my Dad saying that right this second - and there were many times he did just that!
Or sex session !
Yup, and if you kicked him or punched him to hard, the car was a great family ambulance!
The American station wagons were big and roomy back then.In an era before seat belts.
I think those wagens are awesome! Man, those were the days!
Those cars were rolling coffins
I think so too, we had a 1972 when I was a kid. Great looking cars.
@@francoisd6942 all those kids in there and not one with a safety belt on. and yeah I'm old enough to have had a dad with one of these. We took it on vacation and everywhere else.
@@francoisd6942 Why watch this if you hate it, cupcake?
This is basically the typical family car in a lot of cartoons, even if the show is supposed to be set in the modern day.
Seat belts?? Kids car seats?? Ah hell, who needed them back then?? I had fun riding in the back of my dad's Oldsmobile F-85 station wagon, and rode in the bed of his 1968 Ford F-100 pickup truck. Thoes were good old times!!
If 40 million people can live on this continent in houses covered with fake wood siding then why can't I buy a wagon with a little 'paneling' on the sides?
Fuck yeah. Love the fake wood siding on cars, always!
@Right Lane Hog
Those fake panels are very popular in European houses as well.
We have to get a comeback of these fantastic wagons. Such in love with them 😍👏🏼 #WagonLove
Yes, maybe we, as American Citizens, should Petition to the Ford Motor company to bring back the station wagons.
@@rottenroads1982 i will sign in immediately 👍🏼👍🏼✍🏼
Loved this video! Fords from 1965 were my favorite!
Wagons rock.
Giant SUVs are just overkill.
Ah look. A father , mother, kids boys and girls. No neutral gender bs . Acting normal.
And don't forget at least three different races!
My parents bought a new 65 ranch wagon 352 V8 4 barrel carb dual exhaust. Car was fast and reliable. Color was dark blue
I love classic cars from the 60s especially. Sailing these two
My father had a 68 ranch wagon. We grow up in thatcar.
My dads family went on a trip in a 65 squire his dad (My grandpa) borrowed from a friend around 1967, the car had a 390 4 barrel carb. My dad said he remembers watching the fuel gauge slowly go down every couple of minutes. They probably spent a good 40-50 bucks in gas (about $432.80 today) throughout that trip. They went from Kansas City to Houston Texas
They probably spent $10 dollars at the time at most. Fuel was less than .50 cents a gallon back then. It would be like having gasoline at like $2.00 a gallon today. Fuel and cars were super cheap. No Apple car play, air bags in all corners, air conditioning was mainly optional, emissions were near non existent, and the quality of materials was far from bispoke. I believe your dad when he said that needle moved however. A 390 V8 4 barrel pushing people and luggage in a giant station wagon worked that motor for sure.
That 390 was either 275 or 300 and possibly 335hp and 427 ft lbs torque. It didn't struggle at all. Did it get 10 mpg, yes. If they had the overdrive transmissions of even the early 80s and even a throttle body fuel injection the milage would have been more than double. This wagon weighs no more than a modern Dodge Challenger or Ford Explorer or GM Envoy. Modern ignition and fuel management and transmissions just didn't exist yet in 65.
I'll have a two-door Falcon sprint wagon with a 289 V8 and four speed transmission, thank you very much.
They didn't make a Sprint wagon. Futura yes, 4 speed maybe, why not.
Nothing bad could happen to those kids coloring in the back since they like 25 feet away from the front, and cars were only hit from the front back then.
The Old Man had a 1964 Falcon four door wagon. He didn't believe in going fast so it had a 1.4 liter six that pumped out maybe 85 hp. It had the terrible two speed Ford-o-matic transmission. That combination gave a car that got about 26 mpg and couldn't get out of its own way. It might have had a 0-60 time of 23 seconds downhill with a tailwind. Kids on those new Raleigh 10 speed bikes could go faster. I was 16 at the time and passed my license test in that thing. It was the most embarrassing thing you could imagine to use for a date. It didn't even have a radio. I had to stick my 8 transistor Zenith on the dash with a magnetic mount if I wanted music. Thankfully, I had saved my money and was able to get a '57 Chevy Bel Air hardtop in late 1964. Black with a red interior and eaten up with rust but it still looked good with about three coats of wax, and it was a babe magnet even then.
Its a 2.4 liter straight 6, and you're criticizing a wagon, for doing it's job as a family hauler?
23 seconds to 60mph....downhill 😄
Sitting sideways with no seat belts.
Same here with a 68 and 69 squire wagon with th
@@dandrane1251 only the front seat was standard lap belts in 65. Back wagon seats were options
The present day safety brigade would be apoplectic at this!
I think any caring parent would be apoplectic. Putting your children at such risk.
@@pit_stop77 what "risk"? We had a station wagon JUST like the one in the video for YEARS and nothing bad or "risky" ever happened to us.. and why? Because our parents knew the proper way to drive and didn't drive around in a big almighty rush to nowhere like everyone does now...
@@hankaustin7091 Did it ever occur to you that how ever carefully you drive, some other might not and for example t-bones your ass running a red light in an intersection while speeding.
No matter what your personal "driving safety" rating is, there are ample a lot of people to ruin your day for you.
@@youfube- So basically what you're saying is, you and everyone you know are bad drivers.. ok...
@@hankaustin7091 How badly hurt you are in the head exactly, so I know what I'm dealing with?
Those side-facing third row seats lasted through the final, 1991 big Ford wagons. Stranger Things season 3 sees the ones in a "1983" (actually played by an '87) Mercury Colony Park put to use.
Folks had a 57 Ford wagon great car no seat belts you just hung on and had fun
My first car 1965 yellow Ford wagon just like this one without wood on the side> Loved that car I bought used for $250 in 1975 had about 40k miles on it.
Starting in 1966 you could order the 428...great engine BUT...there was a small splicing of rubber hose from the metal line from the fuel supply to the nipple of the carburetor. If it wasn't inspected and replaced when needed, if it ruptured, it would pump gasoline all over the top of the engine until it hit the hot exhaust maniforld, and boom! engine compartment fire. Our town had a number of 428 wagon fires. My parents' 67 T-Bird with a 428 caught fire the same way ...though we stopped it in the nick of time. Ford was so dumb with details sometimes.
This was the year before the Magic Doorgate!
Down & out yup! Wish I could buy one if I could afford it and had a garage, I got a shed and Moble home lol
The only thing cooler than a Country Squire back then was a Mercury Colony Park. Yeah, it was the same mechanically as the Ford, but somehow it was much more glamorous and tasteful, at least to me. Mercury even advertised it as, "if Lincoln built a wagon, this would be it!"
I know what you mean, my uncle had a fully equipped 69 Colony Park and it was just for whatever reason a much cooler ride than any other wagon out there.
@@kennethsouthard6042 local company had a 69 squire with every option. 429 vid windows locks tilt air. Rack put radar mags on it posi rear wood smoke the bias tires for a city block if you left it in low
My mom used to have an LTD Station Wagon.
Mention the word seat belt and people think the vehicle is not safe. Times have changed.
Dad bought a brand-new ‘68 Country Sedan with the 390 cid & the kids seats in back - I would always bug him to “punch it!”😂
I want a 65 Country Sedan light blue with a 289. Wish I could afford to buy one and had a garage, I have a shed smh I used to have a 66 Country Sedan, you can fit 12 people in one. Try that with today's ugly SUVs lol
We bought a new 1965 Pontiac Catilina wagon and it was cool ✌🏻♥️🇺🇸🇺🇦
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HOW did the #BabyBoomers kids survive their childhood? No seat belts in the back, no air bags, windows down, bare feet hanging out of the tailgate window....
Anti-techno miracles.
The trust of instinct is amazing.
Yes and occasionally someone fell out the back door but we all survived.
Many traffic accidents resulted in folk being killed or maimed , but that came with the territory . We had a few deaths and facial disfigurements happen in our family in the fifties and sixties .
@@robmastro8620 LOL, right? Some dumb luck certainly helped from time to time!
@@npet6842
Thank goodness everything is now safe and nobody gets injured.
I love these wagons, but when you drive with the back window down the exhaust gas gets sucked in and can make your eyes water so you dont usually do that.
Carbon monoxide
No, one totally did that, as the electric back window could be operated from inside the back, hence it was in control of whichever 5 year old sat there. Besides, one gets used to the fumes after a while. Lol. No, truth is that the "Magnificent air grabbers on the side of the rear pillars...."- pulled mostly fresh air into the back. So it actually worked without the fumes. A feature lost to time.
You didn't hardly get any carbon monoxide in there because the vent windows and all four door windows were usually down, so that the air flowed thru and out the back window. If the door windows weren't open, yeah you got some exhaust smell. Most people had the 4-60 air conditioning going though.
I'd much rather suffer until I restore one of these wagons than buy a new car because I know damn well which I'd prefer to drive and which one would give me more joy
My dad bought one new back in the day. My favorite part was the power rear window and tailgate that opened down or sideways like a door. I've always liked wagons. I drive a 2005 Dodge Magnum R/T. But I sure don't have 90+ cubic feet of storage. I remember my dad putting wood looking contact paper on the side when the factory wood grain whatever faded. Cheap fix
What? No child safety seats? What? No air bags? No seat belts for the back seat passengers? Try selling something like this today. In spite of all that criticism, this is an incredibly beautiful car.
Modern cars are not as safe as people think.
@@bighands69 ..people are in general lousier drivers now than they were back then, I think in large part to all the nanny features and "technology" on modern vehicles..and the fact you can't see out of them...and I think that people just drive too d@mn fast now..I don't mean just like on the freeways, but on 2 lane roads, through the middle of town, etc., which is worse...I rode in ALL our family cars back in the 1970's to early 1980's without seatbelts...the earlier ones didn't have seatbelts, the later ones had them, but nobody wore them...and I rode in the back of dad's pickup every summer, all summer...and I survived, most of my generation did, too...
@@dyer2cycle
I think modern cars are more disconnected from the driving experience and also drivers attitudes play a part as well.
Those modern crash ratings as not what people think they are. They tend to be done at speeds of about 20 to 30 miles per hour. Most people in these cars are driving at 50 and 60 miles per hour and some at speeds much higher. And they are then making reckless decisions on top of that.
Modern cars are also much faster so that people have no real sense of speed in them.
@@bighands69 ..yes, I agree about the disconnect and having no sense of speed in them in particular..I think they are geared really high, for fuel economy, and people are wheeling about town in them at speeds that are way too high for the conditions without really realizing it..and it seems law enforcement mostly ignores this nowadays, also...and I have observed that people rely way too much on their brakes now, too..when i was learning to drive, you started slowing down well before you reached a stop sign, intersection, traffic light, etc. Now it seems everybody whizzes up to a stop sign full tilt, then stabs their brakes on at the last second..makes it hard to tell if they are actually going to stop or not.... :(
@@dyer2cycle
Yes when approaching a stop sign you would be taking the car down through the gears and not slamming on the brakes at the last moment.
It is getting to the point now that you cannot tell if a car is going to pull out in front of you and you will see many overstepping the line as they have approached too fast.
Another thing I cannot stand is seeing people come up to a junction and treating it like a merging lane when they should be fully stopped.
I remember those good old days of riding in the back of a station wagon as a 5-year-old kid. Today's kids are strapped down, without much to see or do for miles, in a big SUV with windows often too high for them to even see outside. When did our freedom get stolen from us?
It wasn't stolen, we gave it away. We traded freedom for safety.
@@chasedirtbike4155 Correct, and auto accident fatalities / serious injuries are far fewer because of it.
To prove the point, watch this all the way through. A scratch and a bruise or two vs. near-certain death. th-cam.com/video/C_r5UJrxcck/w-d-xo.html
Now kids either watch videos on mounted screens or have their eyes glued to their smartphones. They don’t see where they’re going or how to get there. They will be in driverless vehicles in the near future and won’t learn to navigate or have a sense of direction.
@@MC-vo7vt I remember enjoying watching all the changing scenery, also while listening to the radio of the popular rock/pop/folk music. I feel sorry for kids, they dont do that as much today. I believe it is important for them to think their thoughts and see the world around them.
bout the only problems these had was the occasional oil leak from the sender switch.
Check out the wagon in this video......th-cam.com/video/al-2rmaQMQ8/w-d-xo.html
Big change from the 63 ...Gosh, wish we had one.
the station wagon was like a mini van and pick up all-in-one.
Wow....wish I had one just like that.
Buy one, Google
LOVE THE WAGOOONS TODAH!!!
Useless Infobyte: Australian Falcon wagons from this era had a unique body that was considerably shorter than the US model as the rear overhang was deemed a risk of fouling while passing through table drains (farmers were a key demographic.)
We had a 1967 Mercury station wagon, beautiful car, it has a 410-4v, unfortunately it got hit twice in the back.
351 v8 ?
@@larryc506 no
Now I see how my grandma piled 9 kids in the car all the time LOL
I grew up on ford stations my father had a 1968 ford station wagon ranch. I wish I had it now
Nice show
No seat belts required!
The #SuburbanStatusSymbol of the 1950's and 1960's! Much desired and coveted by the WWII/Korean Conflict generations.
Lee Iaccoca brought those fold-flat seats with him to Chrysler minivans.
So you're telling me that a 1965 Wagon has more storage space than a 2024 SUV ??
I love Wagons.
Today's full and midsize SUVs should offer five/six passenger option like these wagons offered . Not everyone wants or needs a bus with ground clearance and four wheel drive. Cargo space is just as important as peaple space.
i really wanna buy one of these classic vintage american proper station wagons cuz these were family trips to grow up ill get one and just gonna make it 4 or 5 speed manual transmission cuz modern ones they dont look nothing like true wagon shut be so fuck modern cars i want classid vintage old cars look at them THEY ARE PERFECT !!!!
Dad Had the 65 in Dark “Ivy Green” Country Sedan Without the Wood Panels!
Had to chuckle at the man putting his bottle of hooch in the hidden rear storage!
Anybody have a thought where this was filmed? I like the Village General Store at 2:56.
shut up and take my money!!!
sad how many kids must have died... no seat belts, what's fucked up is seat belts are provided for the front passengers
In 1983 the 66 country squire's motor mounts broke and it was traded for a ford escort wagon ,Trade- in value $250 . The escort was a headache for the next five years then traded for a 1988 Toyota pickup $50 trade value, after half a dozen head gasket failures! The Toyota lasted 11 years and over 500 K miles and hit a tree on a rainy night, what a sad end for such a reliable work horse!
How many miles on the Ford wagon?
@@rogerbahakel8130120 K and the only repair was a bolt that held ac compressor came loose and fell off. The motor mounts wore out from my 18 yr. old brother driving like he stole it. Empty headed teenager was the demise of a very well made 390 powered Country Squire.
Those motor mount cushions are held to the block with 2 bolts and to the frame mount with one nut, on an FE engine. Back then, about $6.00 each and when on a lift like almost all service stations had, a fair mechanic could replace them both on a cool engine in about an hour. Maybe $20 labor.
We had 2 of them The first one they bought was in 67 the next 1 they bought was in 68 Mom had one dad had the other
Seeing all those kids roaming around with no seat belts was a bit uncomfortable.
Dad hid a bottle of booze in that cubby
We had a 1972 & I loved sitting in the far back. I had forgotten the fold down seats were lockable. Than in the 80's the mini van came along which I think slowly killed the station wagon.
The "SUV" is the station wagon. Butched up for men but the same soccer mom wagon the minivan is.
Yep. You are so right. The Mini Van killed the Ford Country Squire, the Plymouth Sport Suburban, the Chevrolet Kingswood Estate. RIP...
Get rear-end by a Peterbilt. Kid problems over.
Without seats belts Omg!!
And mom and dad were up front smoking a cig, and Dad had a Budweiser tall boy between his legs.
@Phil 502 Yep. Mask-wearing, mail-balloting communists.
HOW dangerous for those children.
What a great car you have to drive.
Alot of fights in those back seats.
I guess they didn't have the dual rear door opening until '67? We had one. My father was a Ford man. Our '70 was the first that had air conditioning.
We had magic gate, or dual rear door, on our -66. The ads for -65 has them too. Not sure when it was introduced.
@Santor- 65 at Ford.I think it had to be on the upper level model like the Country Squire, possibly the Country Sedan, I doubt you could get it on the base level Ranch Wagon.I think it was 69 at Chrysler.
@@davidkeeton6716 we had the country squire, top of the line I suppose, even though it was old already by the time we got it.
What's more interesting , to me atleast, is how Ford enabled driving around with the rear window down, and NOT get the exhaust fumes into the car. The side scoops on the real pillars funneled fresh air into the vacuum by the rear window, which was stated to also help keep the window clean, in the brochures. It certainly worked, we drove with the rear window down all the time. As kids, we operated the rear window switch on the inside of the gate all the time.
In 63 and 64 the Chrysler Town and Country wagon was a 4 door hardtop. My father had one. It had a 361 in it. We drove from DC to Birmingham Alabama and then on to Panama City Beach Florida many times from 64 to 70, when he got a 70 Town and Country. Both of those were great cars, with few issues in the combined 250k miles we put on them.
1st car I ever drove...:)
Me gusta la camioneta
I wonder if this commercial ran on NBC's Hazel (sponsored by Ford)
toxic wind
A catholic car...
No seatbelts, the fun
As seen in , "Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"
💔☹️
Falcon au wagon was better
No it wasn't. We had both and the full size was much better car. The Falcons are cheaper made all across the board
No ‘pioneering art’ in today’s CUV/SUV, especially the lil useless Encores, EcoSport, Trax, etc.
Whales on Wheels
No bigger than a Suburban or Expedition, and weighed less.
A woody anyone?
Where was the spare tire?
Inside the right rear fender, covered by a panel on the rear interior sidewall.
@@gregger59
Oh yeah that’s right, I remember now.
@@BreakTime10101 gas tank on driver's side quarter. Booooooo m
Where's the gas tank?
Gas tank is in the quarter panel on driver's side
Those rear seats look safe.
Just settle and sit on what color not the style !
Ugly wagon ! 1973 - 1991 wagons waaaaay better
Beautiful cars. But not very safe for all of the kids. That’s just the way it used to be. Today we have very safe cars, but lost all of the style and class of the old rides.
They wood call child services today if you put kids in rear without belts