Four gorgeous station wagons at the Tucson AACA show

I hopped over to Tucson yesterday for the Western Spring Meet of the Antique Automobile Club of America being held there April 19-21. Yesterday was the final day and the big day as it's when the judging took place.

http://www.aaca.org/images/meet_brochures/2018_Western_Spring.pdf

I had never been to an AACA show before, so I didn't know what to expect. I know the club caters to pretty much anything made in the history of powered transportation (they had motorcycles, too) from the beginning up to no less than 25 years old. So you see 1970s cars and brass-era cars. I wondered if there'd be any station wagons, and I was pleasantly surprised to find four very nice ones. Three were entered in the show while one one was just parked on the edge of the show area. I'll post the photos in chronological order of car year in four separate posts.

The oldest of the four, and the one that was not entered in the show, is this 1940 Ford Deluxe V-8 Station Wagon. Very nice woody.












I love the Art Deco dashboard.




From the 1940 Ford Wagon brochure.

 

Next up is this beautiful '48 Packard. Another nice woody.

 

Next is this very nice, very blue 1956 Ford Country Sedan.

 

Great pics! I especially like that Ford. She's a beauty. One question: Why the red dash? Could that have been the original color of the body?
Looks forward to the next two....

 

Finally, we have the newest and my favorite, a simply stunning 1960 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country. What an absolutely elegant piece of machinery. With the two-tone paint scheme, it absolutely pushes all my buttons. None of the windows were open, so I couldn't get a good photo of the interior. The Packard was the same way.





















Another thing I like about this car is that the engine compartment has NOT been made beautiful. It looks like an engine that's actually in use.

 

I don't know. There was no one around to ask.

 

Wow! on the Chrysler....
Is that an original 1960 Edsel convertible next to it? If so, it's one of only SEVENTY-SIX built..........

 

There were actually TWO 1960 Edsel convertibles. Both owners noted the 1-of-76-ness, with the owner of the white one doing it on his info poster and the owner of the red one doing it on his license plate.

 

That looks like some kind of positioning motor, between the master cylinder and fender. What could it be for?:

 

Sounds like it was a great show. Some beautiful wagons and I like the Edsel's too.
Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks for sharing all those amazing beauties.

 

It almost looks like an older laser printer with a fan duct attached

By then, the Edsel had been that far de-Edseled that they might as well have kept going with its production. Had Ford re-badged these last Edsels as Mercurys, Fords or Monarchs, I really doubt that potential buyers would have recognized them as being real Edsels