The Rise and Fall of Station Wagons — How America's Greatest Car Was Forgotten

For forty years the American station wagon was the family car — the wood-paneled land yacht that hauled the kids, the dog, and the groceries down every interstate in the country. This is the full story of how the station wagon rose and fell: from the wooden "woodie" depot hacks of the early nineteen-hundreds, to the fake-wood Ford Country Squire, the rear-facing "way-back" seat, the bizarre GM clamshell tailgate, and the Buick Roadmaster Estate that quietly left the showroom with a Corvette engine. We get into why station wagons disappeared — the CAFE fuel-economy rules and the light-truck loophole that handed the road to the minivan and the SUV — and why the crossover sitting in your driveway is really just a station wagon in disguise. Classic American car history, the way it actually happened. #stationwagon #classiccars #carhistory #woodie #fordcountrysquire #buickroadmaster #automotive #americancars #suv #minivan