I am really suprised by how few of my past wagons have been photographed, but here is what I have. 66 Caprice 325hp 327 Powerglide When I was 17 I drove this car overloaded from Millersburg Ohio to Sebago Lake Maine. I was following my mother in her overloaded VW Squareback. You were moving 824 miles and this was our second trip to get everything moved. The first trip consisted of a 24 foot U-haul pulling a 12 foot trailer driven by my dad, me following in my 67 Mustang and my mother bringing up the rear in the Squareback. I loaded the car and there is no airspace from the drivers seat back. The spare tire was next to me in the passenger seat footwell and the jack was in the gap between the driver's seat and door. My mother didn't raise no dumbies! We had one blowout and one ply seperation on the trip. This picture was taken at the end of the trip with my Instamatic 44. I have cropped and enhanced as much as I can but it is still a lousy picture. In this picture is Taurus 1. I call it that because it is the first of 4 Taurus Wagons I had owned. The first picture is it as we first got it. 3 of the kids are mine. the dark haired girl is a cousin. Later my wife wrecked it and so I did a little custom painting. My daughter posing.. It's unfortunate demise by the hand of my oldest son. It had 202,000 miles and was going to make it to 300,000, I believed. It damaged the steering and suspension pretty bad so I just took a check and bought Taurus 2.
I like seeing old wagon family pictures. I'm gonna have to look through old picture boxes to see if I can come up with any..... When I was in high school, we also had a '66 Caprice wagon. Yellow with a 2-barrel 327 I believe. PS and PB, powerglide, AM radio and not much else. They didn't load 'em up much back then. My dad was a GM man back then, but that was his last one for a while. Pops switched to Fords for a while after that. Can't tell what color yours was. Ours was that buttercup yellow they had. I've also owned a Taurus wagon - It was eiither a '88 or '89 (can't remember) GL, with the 3.8. It was a hasty purchase, since our '84 Grand Marquis CP burned up in Vegas and we needed a quick replacement. The Taurus was reliable, but I didn't particularly like driving it. Hated the feel of the cloth upholstery for one.......
Our Caprice was white. It had a AM/FM radio and a power tail gate window. PS, PB, and I think it was the first car we ever had that had air conditioning. There's a lot of memories in that wagon.
The 73 Caprice was mine. The 78 Cusom Cruiser was my dad's but I drove it quite a bit in high school. Talk about overloading - he pulled a 28' Airstream with that car.
