Miscellaneous cars you wish were offered as wagons

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2 types come to mind. The first one is the über-T-Bird. It has an interesting history and has gotten undeserved too little attention:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1956-1957-lincoln-continental-mark-24.htm

The second would have been the Toronado, despite constructive criticism:

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curb...-deadly-sin-16-lets-try-a-different-position/

Nevertheless, a timeless body design which could have had a "break" version

 

The UltraVan motorhome, a 22' aluminum frameless rear engined airplane without wings. After the Corvair was discontinued a short run of 43 V-8 small block Chevys were produced. The 350 Toronado unit was later nstalled on perhaps another 20 units.
Add a tailgate rather than the lift hatch and we'd had another station wagon.
You could haul 4X8 sheets of plyywood, sleep, cook, eat, and poop in one of those.

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We went out to an Applebee's for dinner a few weeks ago. Our table had a window looking out on the parking lot. While eating, I looked out and there was one of these Mark II's pulling in to the lot. It was still parked when we left. I had to get a close look at it - you don't see one of these every day. A truly gorgeous car. It was a beige/gold color IIRC......

I read somewhere that these were virtually hand-built, and FMC lost a bunch of money on every one........

 

To me these were some of the nicest looking cars ever. I remember one on my paper route when I was a kid, just a few years ago!

 

You might have read it in that link I posted. Wiki says so too. FMC would have made money on that car, had they waited 50 years to start selling it out of their showrooms. In fact, nice ones are going for big money, these days

Aren't you breaching the terms of agreement, signing up as a minor, Sir?

Now, now. We don't really want any of that, in there. Do we?

 

I saw a totally fried Continental Mark II for sale at a go-kart distributor. I'm hoping it found a good home.

 

Those Mk II's are indeed very nice, I've also never seen one in person. I would prefer the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham though I believe. They were also hand built and cost more new than a Rolls Royce.



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At least you are in a nice named town.
I remember a black Caddy like this when new in a nearby town. It would be a tose up between the two cars.

 

For something made in '56, it looked somewhat ahead of its time.
Too bad, Ford didn't stick it out until 1958 when the 400 h.p. 430 Marauder came out. Since, the car was already lowered, the combination of lowered center of gravity and tri-power MEL would have made publicity at the race track. As a luxury hotrod, Ford then could justify tacking on the 1/5th of the sale price lost on previous vehicles.
In fact, the fat Lincolns got that very option, unfortunately equipped with a quiet air cleaner :

http://www.motortopia.com/car-blogs/1958-super-marauder-9127

More candy:



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OK, back on topic......

Every once in a while, I find myself thinking "I wish they made a wagon version of that...."
- Now I've got to remember some of the vehicles I had that idea on.......

(These are not in any particular order, just as they come to me..)

1. First-gen GM 'large' front drivers - Olds 98 Regency/Touring Sedan, Buick Electra/Park Ave, etc......
- These would have a made a great station wagon, also probably stealing a lot of sales from the Volvo crowd. Take your nice Olds Ciera wagon, make it bigger - and better. I'm imagining here a wagon version of the Olds 98 Touring sedan, with that marvelous leather interior. Of course, around this time, those 'M-word' thingies were really taking off....


2. Pontiac version of the '91-'96 GM 'whale' wagon? Don't think we need a pic on this one.

3. This one's been mentioned many times before: The 3rd generation Chrysler A-bodies (Valiant/Dart, '67-'74(?)) Yes, I know you 'down under' peeps had one. Our loss......


4. Along that same line, when GM re-did the Chevy Nova for the '68 model year, they dropped the wagon (and convertible) body style. I can understand the convertible (sales diverted to Camaro), but why drop the wagon? Too similar in size to the Malibu? You had both sizes from '64-'67, and (I believe) they all sold in sufficient numbers.



I'll maybe think of more later.....
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A GTO wagon. You could 'almost' build one off the option list, in '71 and '72, with the endura nose option.

 

Maybe, sales of Chevy II wagons weren't feasable enough for putting Coke bottle bodied 68 on ups into production, since the Malibu on up wagons provided more capacity

 

Had they built a 68 and up Chevy II wagon, I would guess that it would have shared the same basic body as the 68 and up Chevelle wagon, in much the same way that the 66 and up Falcon wagon shared the same basic body with the Fairlane/ Torino wagon.

 

I don't think they would have done that, Jim. The '66-'69 Falcon was switched to the Fairlane platform. The Chevy Nova platform for '68 was still its own.

 

Actually the convertible was only made in the 62 & 63 model years. There were never even any V-8 Chevy II Nova convertibles as the V-8 wasn't available in the Chevy II until the 64 model year.

 

Hadn't thought about that, but it makes sense - the Malibu convert came out in '64, so Chevy was counting on the 'Bu to take the Nova's place in the convertible lineup.