Why is it called a ‘Station Wagon’?

http://jalopnik.com/5872197/why-is-it-called-a-station-wagon

 

That is pretty much what I have posted here in various threads. I like the "Cowboy/badass" moniker best!

 

Couse you loaded up the wagon and dropped the inlaws off at the rail station .

 

Thanks. I always wondered about the Shooting Brake thing.
Can I call my 67 Belvedere wagon a Shooting Brake? As for my Passatt wagon, I just want to shoot it, cause its always broken.

 

Thanks. My wife actually asked me about that a few weeks ago and I didn't have an answer for her.

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1923 Star



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The Star was an automobile marque that was assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928. Also known as the Star Car, Star was envisioned as a competitor against the Ford Model T. (In the United Kingdom, it was sold as the Rugby, to avoid confusion with the British marque.)

Like other products of the Durant Motors Company, the Star was an "assembled" car, built from parts supplied by various outside companies. Originally, Stars were powered by a four cylinder engine; in 1926 the line introduced a six cylinder engine. All factory-installed engines were built by Continental.
In 1923, Star became the first car company to offer a factory-built station wagon (instead of shipping a chassis out to a custom builder who added the wooden wagon body).
For the early part of the 1928 model year, the Star was known as the Durant Star and was only available with a four cylinder engine. The car was replaced in the later half of the 1928 model year by the Durant 4.

Production model specifications

Star Two Door Sedan was originally offered with only the six cylinder in 1926 the four cylinder was introduced as the star four or M model.
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thanks ! iv always wandered !!

 

In googling for an alleged ad where somebody is selling their car using a picture of mine (with me in the picture no less), I just tripped over this:

http://www.answers.com/topic/station-wagon

 

Man. I laughed so hard when I read that. kinda caught me off guard.
Even now I am chuckling to myself.
I think it sounds like a splendid idea.

Bring out the artillary! :Blasting_anim:

 

Yup....cuda and his unfortunate and ongoing war with his Passat tends to get hilarious at times. Not for HIM, of course!

 

shooting break

A shooting break was a type of carriage with seats mounted so you could shoot small game from the carriage They also had space under the seats or in the body to carry hounds or dogs to retrieve or flush game out They were the 4x4's of thier time If you go to my website www.shadbellyfarm.com there is a picture of a slat sided break in Birds eye maple with several seat configurations on the carriage page JeRita I did know how to post the photo

 

Jairus, Thanks. I've read all that crap before, just because I get curious about my crap too. Very interesting and hopefully good information for those younger station wagon members.
But as always, I have a coinqeeidink. Back perhaps in the 70's, a co worker told me about roughly a 1924 Star station wagon laying lazily in a field across from his house. The markings on it led us to believe it once belonged to a cabinet maker so I assumed then it was homemade. It had the same basic Continental engine that those Jeep thingies at airports and the very factory I worked had. In fact, I drove one of those factory type jeeps pulling scaled down train cars on narrow gauge tracks. Nothing to do with this. But those Continental engines with a governor where mostly indestructable.
I never found the owner of that Star station wagon, which was in unbeleivable good condition, considering it had sat there for years. Found out it was a real deal Star vehicle. Coworker offered to help me drag it home but I felt that was stealing so didn't get it. Another one that got away.
Happy Shooting Braking to ya.