Most famous wagons in TV/movies from 60s/70s

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  1. MisterGuy

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    OK, everyone, set your time machine to take us back to the golden years: the 60s and 70s.:)

    Carol Brady drove a wagon in The Brady Bunch.
    How many other memorable TV shows or movies from that era featured characters who drove wagons?
     
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    Clark (Chevy Chase) in Vacation (of course)! ......ooops, not the 60's or 70's (stumped) :idea:
     
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    The Ford Woody wagon the groovy "Mod Squad" drove, it was "solid" man.:cool::rolleyes: They made a model of it so it had to be something.
    There was a cop wagon that appeared every so often on "Adam-12" , not really famous but cool.
     
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    I do remember the wagon in "Adam-12." It was cool.
     
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    I just remembered a few more.
    Didn't Dr. Huxtable drive an old station wagon?
    Didn't Mr. Roarke pick up guests at Fantasy Island in a wagon?
    And of course Quincy drove a Matador wagon in Quincy ME.
    Still hunting for other examples.....
     
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    Not the 70s, but close....very early 80s.

    Not sure how valid it is, but various sources online blame that single movie on the demise of the wagon. :(
     
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    PassatMama When is a wagon not a wagon?

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    When she wasn't driving that multicolored bus, Mrs. Partridge had a big ole Chevrolet wagon: 4partridge4c.273.jpg
     
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    PassatMama When is a wagon not a wagon?

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    The Bradys head off on another big adventure:

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    The '69 Ford Country Sedan airport security wagon that Burt Lancaster drove in the 1970 "Airport" movie got a lot of screen time.
    It could be easily cloned with some spotlights and a gumball.
    I wonder where it is now??
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    The Jag the character Harold from the movie "Harold and Maude" customized into a hearse was a cool sort of wagon.:rolleyes:

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    Check out the Ford wagon in the garage.:cool:
     
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    Oh.....I had totally forgotten about that! Thank you for jogging my memory
     
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    [​IMG]Mad Max (1979) featured this gem driven by Max and his wife. :thumbs2:
     
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    [​IMG]Michael Myers drove a wagon in Halloween (1978). :idea:
     
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    I can't believe I disremembered Matt Helm's 1965 Mercury Colony Park from Dean Martin's 1966, "The Silencers" secret agent movie.
    The car was customized by George Barris with a white leather interior with wrap-around lounge in the second seat section, a bed area in the way back, TV, full bar, automatic window blinds, cool spy stuff.
    What more could you want? :D

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    The wagon from Adam-12 was a 67 or 68 Plymouth Belvedere, later they changed it to a 70 or 71 Plymouth Satellite.
    A good movie from 1972 "The Getaway" with Steve McQueen, had a nice 68 Country Squire he used in a lot of the movie, albeit not a famous wagon.[​IMG]
     
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    I'm guessing then this is movie tribute car below, from somewhere here in Victoria. Not quite a wagon, though a longroof nonetheless, down here they are called panel van's (or 'pano' in typical Aussie short slang, or if your daughters boyfriend had one, a sin bin, shaggin wagon etc...) and are basically an enclosed ute (ranchero). Holden (GM) released a version called the Sandman, iconic aussie car, original ones are hard to find and reasonably $$$

    Kind of like a 'Sedan Delivery' i think I have seen/heard them called in the US?

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