![]() ![]() You had spent your entire childhood and youth riding in station wagons. It was establishment, squaresville, and something our parents drove. ![]() Station wagons went out of favor because my fellow baby boomers (folks born from 1946 to 1953 for this topic on wagons) wouldn't be caught dead buying a station wagon. My gosh, those stationwagons from that time, the big ones, were huge.bigger than all SUV's of today, excluding the discontinued Hummer and giant Ford Excursion from some years back. It was hard to install both a waterbed and a home stereo system - wall mounted operated on 110 volts made using a power inverter from the van's battery.you just couldn't fit that in a Cadillac hearse or the biggest station wagons of the sixties & seventies. ![]() Because most vans had fewer exterior windows than cars/station wagons, they provided Privacy. These vans allowed for useable space that never had before been seen in a reliable vehicle that drove almost like a big car. You'd see bumper stickers on them like "IF THIS THING IS A ROCKIN, DON'T BOTHER KNOCKIN" or "LOVE MACHINE" or "MEMORY MOTEL" or "PALACE OF LOVE".etc. The Big Thing that made VANS so appealing to youth was their SPACE and ability to Customize a "PAD on Wheels". Station wagons sold extremely well during the seventies and were still the family choice assuming the family had four kids. ![]()
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