The Full Line 1965 - Station Wagons [1965 promotional film from Ford] (~3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JblVoi-7f4g
The Full Line 1965 - Station Wagons [1965 promotional film from Ford] (~3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JblVoi-7f4g
In 1979 my mom drove 1976 ford LTD Station wagon. I saw the tv shoe and started calling it the Battlestar.
We all know Bobby and Sue wouldn’t be sitting facing each other and playing quietly.
“Mom, Sue touched me!”
“Sue, Stop THAT!”
“Mom, Bobby punched me!”
“Bobby, now you stop that or I’ll have your father stop this car, young man!”
Ford made cool wagons. Even Dean Martin’s spy character, Matt Helm, had a tricked out Mercury station wagon as his spy car rather than a sports car.
As a Kid, we had a ‘57, ‘62 and then a ‘64 Ford s/w.
Much later I had an ‘82 Econoline [still on hand].
Then an Escort s/w [long gone].
Now I have a plethora of VW Jetta/Golf Turbo, m/t S/Ws.
Hopefully enough to last a lifetime.
I jumped a 1971 town and country wagon, my friend said ‘that wasn’t so bad, can we do it again’ then we hit the ground
Broke steering arm and oil pan
Ah, yes... Our vacation (in the back seat) was different from the rest of the family.
"Gosh, I wonder what all those signs say?"
"That man has been staring at us for 150 miles."
"The air conditioning doesn't reach back here!"
(and when you rolled down the window the exhaust would get pulled in)
Good times.
With my 2 brothers and 4 sisters, the 9 of us would jump in our Chevrolet station wagon and, when we could afford it, off to the A & W Drive-in we would go! All of the windows were halfway down so the food trays could hold the food. Oh!! What fun!! Mama Burgers, Papa Burgers, milkshakes, and A GAZILLION French Fries! There were French Fries every where inside the car.
Our father fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam as a pilot. Thank God he survived it all.
For family haulers, the station wagons of the 1960s were pretty cool but the really cool station wagons were the two-door wagons from the 1950s: Chevrolet Nomads, Ford Couriers, and Pontiac Safaris. Personally, I’d rather have a Chevrolet Nomad than any Chevrolet Bel Air from that era or a Ford Courier instead of any Ford Fairlane from that era (including a Crown Vic), and a Pontiac Safari instead of any Pontiac Chieftain from that era and all those sedans are sweet, sweet cars but the wagons are just so much cooler in my opinion.
my dad drove us from jersey to california in a 1965 plymouth station wagon... that man was a saint... 7 kids and his wife across country... through texas twice when he let my mom drive once... where we sleeping tonight dad?
hotel plymouth.
hehehe good times.
>I rode to Arizona and back to Wisconsin in the back jump seats of a 1966 Country Squire wagon in 1968 with my parents and 3 other siblings.
I honestly believe 65-67 were the last good looking full size Fords. I like the 67 best, then the 65. The 66 just looks like it can’t decide which one it should be.
Our family car was a 65 so it may be that that’s just ingrained in my mind. But the stacked headlights were pretty cool.
I’d take a nice 65 Falcon Sprint hardtop as well! Or convertible.
I hauled 5 kids around in a car like that.......no seatbelts,no hassle,no injuries.
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The Full Line 1965 - Galaxie
https://youtu.be/RiuRHdkLU0c
Screw the kids, in 65 for 6500 you could have this: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15143059/1965-porsche-911-archived-road-test-review/