The Ford Country Squire: Why It Was The Most Popular Station Wagon Ever Built
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2023
- There’s no denying that the 1970s was a great decade for cars of all kinds, but it was especially great for station wagons. Most people in the ‘70s drove a station wagon around town, and they were always marked by standout features like the woodside paneling, vinyl seats, and more.
Although it’s over 40 years after the 70’s decade, we’re still thinking about our beloved ‘70s station wagons.
This is the story of the Ford Country Squire Station Wagon
Positioned as the top-level station wagon of the Ford division, the Country Squire was distinguished by woodgrain bodyside trim. In this video, we go over the changes of the Ford Country Squire with an emphasis on the Country Squires of the 70’s. Did you or your family own one? If so, we want to know your thoughts and memories of times had with your station wagon. Leave us your comment below.
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Owned a '67 Country Squire, my first car! It was an absolute tank! Fond memories!
I wish our 67 Custom 500 4 door sedan didn't go with my older sister and her husband when they got married in the mid 70s. That would have been a nice car to drive in high school.
Dad had an early 70,s full size station wagon. We loved that car. By the time us kids grew up, dad was still driving that car. That car worked hard, played hard, and was filled with memories. Dad finally donated it to a family in hard times. It served them well too. It just was a good automobile
I had 3 children in 1975 and we need more room in our next vehicle so we choose a 1975 Ford Country Squire! It was loaded, one of our favorite features was the rear seats facing each other with a Magnetic Checker Board to entertain kids on a long trip! It was a winning combo, great vehicle! Gold colored 1975!
Nice!
I owned many Ford Country Squires over the years - 1960s - 1990. The Country Squires were great cars ! Wish they were still available.
Unfortunately, it would be resurrected as a stupid X-over or suv so yeah, the Country Squire is definitely best left as we remember for the times it was most popular and important!
We had a '74 country squier. That thing was an absolute beast. We made many trips between Indiana and Florida in that thing. Super comfortable!
We had a 1971 Kingswood wagon with the clamshell back doors. What I love about this time is that every brand had its distinct character and there was a wagon for every person that wanted one. I was a child in those days but if I could go back as the grown up Ford man I am today I'd buy me a Country Squire wagon. I like the period from 1969 - 1978 or maybe get me a rare 1991 model with the wood sides paper. Nice brief on a popular vehicle from my childhood days. Thank you.
We had two. First was a green 1971 LTD Country Squire, then a 1976 White LTD Country Squire. Mom loved both of those cars. They were gunboats, all right! They cruised along smooth as could be, and were GREAT on long road trips.
Very cool!
Our family's first new car was a 1967 Colony Park station wagon, essentially the Mercury version of the Country Squire. Our family of 7 went to the dealer in somewhat of a jalopy Comet and came home in the new wagon. It is one of my first memories. I would love to have one now.
My family also owned a 67 Colony Park. The car came with either the 390 or 410 Marauder. Our wagon had the 410 and could scoot for a huge car.
The cars from our family I'd love to have today include the first car in my memory, the blue-green 64 Country Sedan, also the Wimbledon White 67 Custom 500 Sedan, both the black 60 and blue 67 Beetles, and our brown 73 "Dentside" F100 with 302 and 3 on the tree.
I really liked the styling of the 1967, and '68 Mercurys. I always liked Mc Garrett's 1968 Mercury Park Lane 4 door hardtop, from Hawaii 5-0!
Gosh, how I miss the station wagons! For the most part, our family had either Chevy or Olds wagons. How many cross country trips we made....
@@garydaniels5495 In the 70s, I had a friend down the street whose parents had a 68 or 69 Plymouth Belvedere wagon, medium blue. It was the only Belvedere wagon I ever saw. I rode in it several times with his family.
The first car that I remember was a 1959 Chevy Wagon,, blue and white, 2 tone. I was hit by a drunk driver in the middle of the night, in '65, and my step-father bought my mom a brand new '66 Plymouth Fury lll wagon. My mom loved it. It was stolen in '71, then she got a '67 Pontiac Lemans........beautiful car. The memories of the wagon (Plymouth) were great, the very back seat, and all of the places to hide..........
My dad's first new car was a 1965 Plymouth Belvedere II wagon. She had the 225 slant 6 with a 3 speed on the column. Even with my dad being in Vietnam 67-68, by the time he sold her in 74, she had racked up over 400,000 miles. She was due for an overhaul and front floorboards, but I was there for almost every single mile starting January 66. I traveled in the back of her cross country several times. What's kinda funny is dad was trading in his 58 Edsel Ranger, which the sales manager at the San Antonio Plymouth dealership gave my dad 25 bucks to take it elsewhere 😂
I remember the people who lived across the street had a 1974 LTD station wagon that was dark green. They parked the car shortly after buying it because it was too big to get around. The car was parked in their driveway until about 1998. They tried selling it with no luck and the car was sold to a demolition derby driver, who ended up winning. My uncle owned a 1983 Country Squire wagon with every option available. The car was beautiful and one of the nicest riding cars I have been in. He bought a new car every year and traded it the following year.
In the mid 80's I had built 2 demo derby Ford station wagons for my brother and me. I drove the '71 and my brother drove the '74. I couldn't believe how easily the '71 station wagon demolished. The rear end crushed right down and the roof buckled down at the back. The back bumper was digging on the ground, so it couldn't back up anymore, and when I hit another car with the front end, and it crapped out, I then couldn't drive forward or backward and was then done. Yet the '74 station wagon's body stayed in good shape in that demo derby and was still in pretty good shape after another demo derby. So that generation of Ford wagons had the strongest bodies.
We had a 1969, i was 10 when my parents bought it brand new and the whole family loved it. It was awesome!
Our family, with 5 kids, had the 1'st, 5'th, and 7'th generation models, each one better than the last, but there's a place in my heart for all of them. They certainly took us thousands of miles, from everyday driving, to interstate vacations!
Had a 1988 Crown Victoria/LX (did not have wood), 5.0, power everything, surprisingly tight handling and 27-28 mpg hwy, great for towing, hauling, best car I ever owned.
Man, y’all got me again!!! I have a thing for wagons, 😂!!! Most excellent video, Brothers!
Apparently everybody else in America does too!
@@thewiseguy3529 I grew up in the back of one so I have an Afro it’s for them, 😂
Glad you enjoyed it
We had a 73 country sedan. Same as squire without paneling. I was too young to ever drive it but I logged alot of hours as a passenger. We took family road trips, six kids plus parents and sometimes the dog. Luggage carrier on top. Had a huge engine which got 8 mpg. Great memories traveling comfortably in that beast with the big family.
We had a 1972 Mercury Montego MX Villager Station Wagon. My dad ordered that wagon with a 6.6L/400 and optioned it out . Black with simulated wood paneling and tan interior. Beautiful wagon. Every spring that wagon would take our family from Cleveland to Marco Island Florida for vacation.
Always loved wagons, still do! Who could forget riding in the "way" back?
I'll never forget in the late 70's I was working as a crew dispatcher for Conrail and we were in the middle of a severe snow storm. We had to get a crew from one side of the mountain, up over it and down the other side to another town. The taxi service that we used refused to go out in the weather and it was late at night. With no options left, I had to drive the crew in that snowstorm in a late 70's model Country Squire without snow tires. I got down there and back without a problem but when we arrived at our destination, the train crew had a fit when they realized where we traveled without snow tires/chains. They really were a great car to ride in.
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My parents owned a 1968 Ford Country Squire station wagon in the ugly pea/lime green! 🙂 What I remember most was the full metal cargo area (when the 3rd row seats were stowed). With no seat belt regulations, the kids would sit in the metal cargo area for the sole purpose of being able to slide from side to side as the car turned corners! In fact, to kill time and occupy us kids, mom would drive around the 4-leaf-clover interstate interchange several times just so we could slide around. LOL. So not safe!! But we all survived, and had fun doing it.😁
I have a 1977 LTD landau I'm restoring that's the same color green as the one on your thumbnail picture. I was born in '72 so i remember seeing most of these from all the big 3. The only station wagon i remember riding in was my aunt's '79 Volare wagon. Thank you for the ride down memory lane.
1969 Ford Country Squire (390). In 1971, my family (7 of us) drove from, basically, Toronto to California pulling a tent trailer. Dad would put a mattress in the back so we could lie down. I was 7 and I loved that car. Such a shame our salty road at the body. Amazing memories.
I owned a 1988 Country Squire wagon. I loved it! Much better than minivans of the era.
One of the best cars I ever owned was a '64 Country Squire wagon, one of the worst was a '75! What a difference a decade can make.
I'm a 67 year old baby boomer who grew up in Minnesota. My Dad always bought station wagons. Our first was a 1964 brown Chevrolet Impala and I have fond memories of riding in the rear third seat with my older Brother looking at the beautiful views out the back window while going to my Grandparents house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We use to throw down the seats and put our bikes in back to bring them to Mahwolds hardware in Mankato Mn for repair. What a great car that was ! Dad moved on to a 1970 AMC Ambassador wagon with the faux wood grain and I drove that in High School from time to time on dates and also pulling our Snowmobile trailer for Country fun. The last I remember was about a 1976 Ford LTD wagon gold with the faux woodgrain on the side. It was smooth and had a luxurious feel, however I loved the 1964 Chevy Impala the best ! Thank you for your video and for reading !
I was indeed fortunate as my Dad had Ford Wagons starting in 1956 and about every three years until 1975. Of those 1962 marked our first ‘Country Squire’ and this followed with 1965, 1968, 1971, and culminating in 1975 with a option laden Mercury Montego MX Villager wagon. Through those years it seemed we traveled with the prestige that only the Country Squire nameplate provides. I was truly enamored with cars and it was exciting times growing up and anticipating the changes that came with each model year, something that is lost today altogether. I have been loyal to the Ford car myself having driven nothing else since 1968, and there is another aspect that has fallen by the wayside! At one time you could go down a street and parked in every driveway was a Ford Chevy, Pontiac, etc….all American made! Our country’s decay; so to speak, now hails the Asian vehicles as the mainstay and this I find rather disturbing. It is indeed the end of an era.
You and I were the same as kids! We loved cars and were very excited to see the annual changes for the new models when they came out in October of every year. I notices that that stopped in 1973, and began the malaise era of the american cars. I also noticed that with the first gas crisis in the fall of 1973, that the Japanese cars were going to permanently gain USA market share of cars sold. I was with my mom when she traded in her 1966 VW bug for a brand new first year Honda Civic in 1973, before the oil crisis hit. She was so impressed with the car that she said, "this car will put an end to the Volkswagen (Bug)". She brought the new Civic home, to show her boyfriend, since she was so excited about the car, and told me to tape over all of the badges, on the exterior, and interior, to see if her boyfriend could guess what model car it was. I was riding in the backseat of the Civic as he drove it, and he could not guess what it was. I took off the tape covering the labels, and my mom said excitedly, "it's a Honda". He was so impressed with the Civic's driving dynamics, as well, that shortly thereafter, he bought one new. He traded in his 1969 4 door suicide-doored Thunderbird on a new 1973 Civic, as well.
@@carlc5748 yes we each have our own memories dont we? Yours is a good example how things started to move away from the American models. I’m 74 and still cling to the American ideal of being American and buying American. Think I’m closed minded as my Dad did have a Camry or two but then he pleased me with his Lincoln Continentals beforehand …..it’s all a quandary ..but I tell you I enjoyed the ride….1963 and 1969 Galaxie 500’s, 1972 Mercury Cougar XR7 with all the options, a 1975 Ford Elite also with every conceivable option (my favorite), 1984 & 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis LS also factory ordered with it all, once married I had seven Lincolns ending with the present 2020 Aviator… so a life of Ford products and I have no regrets! I hope I don’t seem presumptuous, I’ve just put automobiles before anything else!
@@donaldphillips8697 My first driving experience was with my neighbors 1965 galaxie 500 4 door, took my driver's test in that car. I really liked the styling. I have a '65 Mustang, a basic one, 6 cylinder. When I saw the Bond movie "Goldfinger" , with the mustang in it, in late '64, or early '65 as a 7 year old kid, I was, and still am enamored by them. My favorite mustang is the '69 Shelby GT 500, and then it's the '68 GTCS California Special. I remember the Elite. For one year only, in 1974, they were called the Gran Torino Elite, then became the Elite, the next year, as I recall. One of the customers on my pool route had one, the Gran Torino Elite. Years later I had my pool route along Sunset Blvd, Beverly Hills, Bel-air, Brentwood. One of my customers had as his daily driver (we're talking about into the mid 1990's now) a black 1968 Ford Fairlane convertible. It was immaculate. I would constantly comment how beautiful his car was. Later on, I learned that this same customer was a part of the famous MGM Mayer family he looked just like the patriarch! I learned that he was a director in many of the "Mannix", and "Six Million Dollar Man" TV episodes. I can readily relate with your fond memories!!
Thanks for sharing Donald!
Our wagon was a 1973 Dodge Monaco with woody sides. I remember going on vacation drives in that car as a kid with my sister. We would put the rear seat down so it was totally flat behind the front seats and line the suitcases up down the middle and have camping cot mattresses down either side of the luggage. We would sleep and play games back there in the cot mattresses as we drove along…good memories!
I remember a '67 Chevrolet Caprice Station Wagon, 327 ci, gold colored and with wood grain on the sides. Lots of journeys with that car.
I bought my Aunt and Uncle's 1979 LTD Station Wagon in the early 90's it had over 400,000 miles on the body they had the engine rebuilt at 350,000 miles i loved that thing it rode like a cloud and would haul butt.
I own a 92 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon now.
I grew up with wagons in the 70’s and 80’s.
My parents bought a 69 Pontiac Catalina station wagon. I was only 3 at the time, but still have the memory of that big neon red Indian at the dealership! Dark olive green with white vinyl top.
You could fit a 4'x8' sheet of plywood in there.
400 engine and turbo 400 tranny gave a lot of cars a run for the money. Took many road trips in it! Great memories!
I've got great memories of trips and of driving our 1972 Country Squire, 429 4V, and highly optioned. It was dark green with a dark green interior. Lots of fun to drive and always managed a steady 9 mpg, oh well; it was fun to drive and what a wonderfully smooth ride it had!
My Dad and Mom had 6 sons in 9 years. So our family of 8 always needed a Ford Country Squire wagon. Starting in '65 or '66 is have pics sitting on the tailgate at age3 and I grew up and learned to drive in one. I'm sure we had a 1970 and a 1974 as well and the last one wouldve been about 1979? Crazy fun riding in, riding on top of (once at age 8), playing with my brothers all ride long, and always falling asleep in the back or on the floor in front of the 2nd row! Had at times both the rear-facing gunners position and the 4-pak 'well' where you faced your brothers in the back. Was a little crazy but always fun growing up in the 70's in NJ. 2-axel Jayco pop-up camper would sleep 8...that was every vacation we ever took.
The good old days. Our 1968 Bel Air Wagon had full rear facing back. The fun times we had, we'll never get back. Enjoy life! Thanks for watching and sharing your story!
My parents never owned a station wagon, but several people we knew did. My first car in 1983 was a 1974 Mazda RX-3 wogon 4-speed. I found that wagons often handle just like a sedan and have great all-around visibility with no blind spots. Among many sedans, hatchbacks, a truck, and a minivan, I have owned four wagons. I had the aforementioned Mazda, a new 1997 Subaru Legacy Brighton wagon, a 1999 Subaru Impreza L wagon, and a 2007 Impreza 2.5i wagon. All were good for my needs, were fun to drive, and had great utility without any downside. In the USA, it's "not cool" (not fashionable) to drive a regular station wagon, but I think that they are wonderful, useful cars.
In 1981 my brother was discharged from the Marines and he bought a early 70’s LTD wagon with the 400 cc engine for $100 bucks. It wasn’t a sexy muscle car but a big boat and it drove like it. I’ll never forget the fun we had cruising around in it! Sadly he’s gone now but I’ll always those memories with me though I miss him a lot .
I had a 1973 country squire. Loved it . 😊 could fit 4x8 plywood sheets in it. My son was very young back then and loved those rear sitting seats. He kept bunchs of toys in that hole. Mine had the 460 v8. Don't think I ever broke better than 10mpg. But gas was cheaper then. Moved on to the smaller Ford LTD wagon of the 80ds. My son still calls me the station wagon king.
Dad drove a 1969 Torino Squire wagon, he liked it better then the LTD. It was light yellow with the wood siding and tan interior. He liked that wagon and kept it until the mid 80's, it was packed for lots of Boy Scouts camping trips. I drove it once, quiet and smooth ride with bench seats like your living room sofa.
My dad loved station wagons. He bought a new 1963 Rambler Classic Cross Country with the 3rd row seat he called a rumble seat. Then he bought a 69 Chrysler Town & Country wagon with a 440 police interceptor engine & lastly bought (our best station wagon) a 75 Mercury Colony Park!! Fun memories of each one!! Thanks for sharing another fun video!!! 👍👍🙂
My dad had a rust colored 1967 Plymouth fury 3 had some great times and now memories in that car.
I owned a 1966 Ford Country Squire Wagon until 1993 whwn it rusted out. I loved that car!
Back in the 70's, my mom owned 2 Station Wagons. The first was a 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass Vista Cruiser with the side woodgrain and the roof opera widows. It had a 350 4bbl with a 310 hp rating. Boy that car would FLY for a wagon. When Mom drove me to school, and I was NEVER late... In 1973, Mom upgraded and bought a bright yellow Ford Country Squire Wagon, with the wood grain sides, and a 400 V8 loaded with ALL options, including the towing package. We also bought a 26' Trailer the next year, that we went camping in for the next few summers. We also took that car to Prince Edward Island in Canada to visit some family in like 1975. What a road trip that was!! Thanks for bringing back the memories, those days are LONG GONE. I feel sad that kids of today will never have the experience of having owned a wagon...seems they were everywhere in the 70's....
Our family wagon was a 1978 XC ford falcon wagon, In Australia you were either ford or Holden, needless to say I was Ford :). Love wagons, currently one of our company cars is a volvo V60 - long live the wagon - cheers from Brisbane - great job as always !
Mom and Pa had a 71 Chevy Kingswood Estate wagon, which was a great car, then in 76 they changed over to Ford, they bought a new 76 Country Squire wagon. It was dark blue, with the woodgrain down the sides, and it drove very nice with the 400 4 bbl. I really wish I could ride in another 70s land yacht wagon... Total nostalgia! Thanks for posting this!
I recently purchased a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Country Squire with a 352 v8, cruise-o-matic transmission and black leather interior. its really a sweet vehicle! it has 85k original miles
Loved this. I'm a wagon junkie. My earliest memory is of a '53 Ford Wagon, I rode in the back. Was a 6 passenger, not a country squire, had a sliding side, window. I might have been 2 then. Very vague. We had a 55 Pontiac Safari 2dr wagon for awhile. I remember riding in the back with the glass up and singing (i Can't Get No) Satisfaction so it must have been 1965 and I was 8. We then had 1 beautiful 1960 Mercury Colony Park 4dr hardtop wagon with a forward facing 3rd seat. We all loved that wagon. It was white and had the wood grain sides like a Country Squire. It was replaced with a 63 Olds Dynamic 88 Fiesta 3 seater, (rear facing). That in turn gave way to a 65 Plymouth Belvedere II, rear facing 3 seat wagon which I learned to drive in. We had it from the fall of 1970 to the spring of 1974. That was replaced by a 69 Pontiac Bonneville 3 seater with a 428 and posi. It had no roof rack and looked like a sleeper. It was fast!!! My brother and I tested the boundaries while my father just rolled his eyes. (God bless him.) Once we were out of the house he replaced it with a 78 Chevelle Malibu Classic wagon, 2 seater with a 305. Pretty peppy! My folks were nearly killed in it in a crash in 1988. When they finally recovered they had an 80 Canadian Pontiac LeMans wagon, my Mother affectionately called the "bucket of bolts". Dad got a Dodge minivan shortly before he died in 97. Mom unloaded it and kept the bucket of bolts til she passed in 2003. As for me, I first had a 6 passenger one owner 75 Ford Gran Torino 6 passenger wagon w/ a 400 2bbl until my 3rd child was born. Then I got an 82 Mercury Colony Park with the dual facing rear seats. Great car but sold it when an 82 Olds Custom Cruiser 3 seater came along. 307 4bbl, wonderful family cruiser for my 4 kids and family dog. Loved that wagon. In 97 I had to try a minivan. Had an 89 Plymouth Grand Voyager. Great car, woefully underpowered. Next I got a 92 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon with 3 seats. Got a 94 Buick Century 3 seater for the wife when the minivan proved more trouble than it was worth. Later my wife and I divorced and she gave the Century wagon to my son. Too small for him, we traded straight across. He got the Caprice, I got the Century He has since married, has a child amd lt the Caprice go. He has a 61 Dodge Lancer wagon which he is working on and his daughter loves. I am still driving the 94 Buick Century 3 seater at 186,000+ miles. Long live the wagon train!!!
Mom owned a ‘58 Chevy Biscayne Station wagon. In 1967, parents purchased 1966 Chevy Biscayne Station Wagon again. Had that for about 1 year before it was stolen. Better- Off neighbors had Kingswood Estates Wagons and Vista Cruisers.
My father owned 3 of them. 66,71,76. They were really good cars.
My late aunt operated a private kindergarten back in the 50s and 60s and ALWAYS had Plymouth station wagons.with a "School Bus" sign mounted on the roof.I can remember that she had a '59,a '63 ,a'67 and and '71, all Furys.
My Aunt Betty had a '76 Chrysler Town & Country in the early '80s. She worked for the Lake Champlain ferries and a work perk was a free pass for herself, her car and anyone in it. One time we met up at my grandmother's house on Flynn Ave. in Burlington, VT and 12 of us - 6 adults and 6 kids - went in the wagon on the ferry to Ausable Chasm. Everyone but grandma got out on the boat though! She went to a Ford Escort wagon and the owner of the gas station she always used joked to her that he had to lay a guy off because his gas sales had plummeted.
My family had a 1975 Country Squire. I remember driving across country with a family of 6 plus my Great Aunte. Like National Lampoon Vacation.
Loved this video. Grew up with a 1970 Plymouth Station Wagon.... miss those times....
You and me both!
Mom & Dad brought home a brand-new '63 Country Squire in Vintage Burgundy with the multicolored goldish beige interior. It was absolutely beautiful I loved it. I was ten years old at the time. My first car when I turned sixteen was a 1961 country sedan in white, loved it. I had some problems with it and since I couldn't afford to take it to a mechanic that's how I learned to work on cars. When I went back to the mom-and-pop owned auto parts shop they saw my car out front and asked me rather jokingly hey Steve is that the car you've been working on, and I replied yes and they said does it run and I said well it's parked out in front of your store isn't it and they said you want to work here. I had a great time working at center Auto Parts. We had a great time together. BTW, that was in 1973.
My parents bought a 1967 Country Squire, white / woody, 390 V8 with side facing rear seats. I went with them to the Ford dealer to pick up the new wagon. I was 6 years old. I grew up riding in it for local use and family trips on the interstate which meant I was in the side facing rear seat well. Around 1975, my older brother hit 16 years and bought the wagon from our parents. He set about hot rodding the FE 390 over the next year or two and beat the snot out of it. I don't recall where it went after that.
We had a 1969 Pontiac Bonneville wagon, a 1972 Ford Country Squire wagon and a 1974 Ford Country Squire.
My memories are of a/c’s that didn’t work, power windows that stopped operating, random broken fan belts, and the smell of anti-freeze.
Greetings from Glenn in Cleveland! We had a 1970 Olds Vista Cruiser in light green metallic with wood grain sides. I don't know how or why, but it had the Olds sport steering wheel of that era. The wagon was great for our winter recess trips to N.Y. We could see the skyscrapers through the vista roof and the side roof panels easily. In 1973 we got the Olds Custom Cruiser in burgundy metallic with wood grain sides. no vista view glass.
Very cool! Thanks for watching Glenn!
My family had three Ford wagons...1967 Country Squire, 1972 Country Sedan and a 1978 LTD II S wagon. All were 9 passenger versions and we spent a lot of time traveling during those days. My siblings and I would take turns riding in the "way back" playing car games and reading. I would love to have any of those wagons back today.
I grew up with a green 1970 Country Squire wagon. It was a great car. The hidden headlights always looked cool when the cover went up or down.
When GREEN was cool for cars and refrigerators.
We had a Grand Torino Squire and loved it.
Love the memories! I learned to drive in our Chrysler Town and Country wagon. Loved to Rev that monster 440 engine. Would pick these wagons over any SUV today.
Great video, as always . Thanks for keeping to memories alive !
Thanks for sharing!
When i was growing up, I remember my father going back and forth between Chevy and Ford wagons. I remember we had a 10 passenger, 1965 Country Squire, it was yellow with tan interior with simulated wood grain. It had a 390 cubic inch with dual exhaust. As a kid, what I remembered about it was the dual 3rd row seats and it was very fast!😂
What I wouldn't give to drive one of those fantastic automobiles!
My father had a 1969 green/faux wood Country Squire wagon with a 390 under the hood. It said, "power by Ford" on the valve covers. He bought it used so it was far from perfect. The floor by the jump seats was rusted out so bad that if you opened the hatches and looked down, you saw the road and rear end of the car! Needless to say the car was loud while driving. Besides that, it was a tough car. We filled our new country house with furniture with that car. No trailers, no moving vans, just our LTD wagon. I remember transporting a china closet on the roof rack 125 miles with no issues. Try doing that with a car today! I also remember my father would put the back seat down and lay 4'x8' sheetrock in the back! Yes, it was a cool car that we actually still have pictures of.
Our families first brand new car was the 1973 ford station wagon brown with wood trim and 400 engine. Loved that car
I remember my dad test driving a 1965 Ford station wagon. With myself and my brother in th third row. That tailgate and facing back seats mesmerized me. He turned it down. I was heart broken. I was young.
Grandparents had a 1968 blue Olds Vista Cruiser then a red/black 1974 Buick Skylark wagon. Loved riding in the back and vividly remeber getting "THE LOOK" in the mirror..lol
I had the greatest of all Ford Station Wagons. It was a red Pinto complete with woodgrain.
1959 Chevrolet Nomad Station Wagon, the best car I ever owned. The most expensive Chevrolet for 1959 more than the 59 Convertible! 348 Big Block Tripower Automatic.
We had a 66 Falcon wagon 289 auto perfect size never broke down loved it!
Had 1st wagon, 1976 Pontiac super luxury Grand Safari. Overloaded with options. Full power tailgate and window clamshell model. Super powered 475 hrspwr big block 4barell carb. Mom traded her 1968 Pontiac Firebird stick in the floor. She loved the power of the wagon.
Very nice!
Oh my God this brings back memories when I was 12 years old our neighbor who lived the bypass we lived in a apartment complex bought a brand new 1976 Ford country squire wagon with all the bells and whistles you can imagine. The car cost $9,000 at the time which was a gargantuan price for any American car let alone a station wagon. It was just a couple of $1,000 short of a Cadillac. It had power and Electric everything that you could possibly imagine not to mention 400 cubic inch engine that was choked to death during that era.
It was a light green with of course fake wood with leather seats.
My Dad always bought the 9 or 10 passenger models to haul kids to track meets. He had a 1966 and 1969 Country Sedans. The middle model between the Ranch Wagon and the Squire. He also had a 77 Ltd II wagon. Fond memories
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My parents had a 1965 Mercury wagon when I was born in 1971 (I don't remember it well, other than the color was brown/gold). Then a 1974 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. The Olds was followed by a 1976 Ford LTD, then 1979 Ford Thunderbird, which quickly led to a 1980 VW Rabbit Diesel due to the Oil Crisis in 1979 worsened by the 1980 Iran-Iraq war. We later returned to wagondom with a 1985? Ford Country Squire (Silver with wood panel). It towed boats and hauled the family across state lines for long weekends until a Conversion Van took it's place. I look back on those cars now with endearing memories, but at the time as a teenager I quickly declined my Dad's offer to let me drive the Squire to Homecoming.
My folks had a 1954 2 door wagon. It came with a big mattress, that was molded around the wheel well. Coming back at night, we’d lay down like sardines. When I got a couple more brothers, my folks got a 1961 with 3 seats facing forward. Then came 1965, 2 1970’s. Then I bought a 1967, then a 1977. Best all around cars!
1969 LTD Country Squire. 429 cu. in. V8 with a 4 barrel carburetor. My dad taught me how to do a tune up on that car. Many road trips across the country at 100+ mph with me and my 2 brothers playing in the back with the seats folded down. Good times. 😅
I grew up, driving a 73 Country Square wagon went to take my drivers test. Of course I fail because I couldn’t parallel park it. It was so big ended up taking my Father’s 79 bright yellow gremlin. so embarrassing for a teenager. I still remember the slick seats. You could just slide all the way across, I would also armor all the wood to make it shine. Good old days.
My fondest memory of a station wagon is when I was six years old in 1967 and my stepdad was a used car salesman. One day he brought home a Ford station wagon with a 390 in it, my memory is of being on a dirt road with a big old outboard motor in the back of the station wagon and catching air off of a big bump in the road and my step dad turning around and doing it over and over like 8 or 10 times and the outboard motor flying around in the back of the car, it was awesome, I think he might have had a few beers.
We had a 77 hornet station wagon. I remember sitting in the “way back “ I love that awesome times.👍🏻
Had a 84 LTD wagon, was our family car for years.
My family owned a 74 Torino wagon with a 302.I loved riding in the back with 2 blankets and 3 pillows supplied by Mom while my 2 sisters rode in the middle. I used to beg Dad to lower the rear window.Mike the Greek
Ford - you’ve done retro thunderbird, mustang, and bronco - time is right for the return of a country squire! Please I’ll buy one!😊
My Mom had a ‘65. I was ten years old and I remember lying in the back beside the rear speaker listening to The Beatles on the radio. That would never happen with Dad in the car. 😂 Happy days.
We had the coolest cars on the street. Mother drove a 1966 Country Squire 390 V8 (traded in 1973 for Country Sedan) and father drove a 1966 Mustang 289 V8 (owned until 1985)
1967 Chevelle Malibu Wagon... Drive in movies were awesome laying down in the back..
We had a 1970 LTD Country Squire. My favorite car growing up.
My folks moved five kids two adults and a canary out to California from Iowa in a banana yellow country squire. Fun, fun!
My ex-wife had a 7th gen (71 I think) Country Squire with a 400 in it. It was painted mustard yellow (with a paint brush). It was big, it was powerful, and it sucked gas just getting out of the driveway. It was her first car though so it has special memories for her and me. Going to the drive in could carry a case of beer and all the friends lol.
I've owned a number of wagons over the years, including the '76 Dodge Aspen that I owned when I got married in '78, a '63 Dodge 330, a '68 Caprice Estate, an '82 Plymouth Reliant SE, a '78 Country Squire, an '85 Country Squire, and now a 2019 Ford Flex. My folks only ever owned one, a '79 Catalina, but my grandfather owned several after he tired of driving pickups - a '77 Plymouth Volare, a '78 Fairmont, two '79 Zephyrs (one got rear-ended when he'd only had it a month)., an '80 Zephyr, and his last car, an '82 Granada.
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We had ford station wagons from 1969 1970 1980 through 1989 My mother loved them so much,
I have to share this with you. I was with my brother then traveling to someones house. we got lost and I said Stop back up a bit. we were on a neighborhood road which was always quiet.
I saw a dark blue ford ltd station wagon. with the familiar we are a navy family decal on the back window above the tailgate door.
and a dented door and I felt so strange inside. it was my mothers car we hadn't seen in since my mother sold it back about 24 years ago. it was in good condition and the same engine too.
in the early 60's we owned a 1957 ford wagon. when it was cold/rainy my dad would fold the seats down and i would play in the back for hours. i was 5 or 6 years old. good times.
My dad bought a 1973 LTD wagon not a country squire but a very comfortable car and I liked driving it. I took my drivers test in it
My parents had 2 wagons: a 64 Ford and a 68 Ford Country Squire. Dad bought a special screen (with grating) that fit in the back window. I remember on trips to Florida, the daily 4 pm thunderstorm. Dad would be driving 70 mph or so, and would roll down the rear window via remote, and I would pull the screen out. He would then roll up the window. Always felt like I would get sucked out of the car...... LOL. But hey, why pull over to do this, when we could do it with a little coordination.
Learned to drive on my family’s Country Squire in 1972, when I was 16…with my younger brothers sitting in those far-rear center-facing death seats, no seatbelts, of course. The beast handled like a boat, but boy was it perfect for taking large Baby Boomer families on road trips! You could even have a third person in the front seat!
I bought a 1968 non woody Ford wagon (Country Sedan) with a 302 V8 for my family and we loved it. It could haul people or 4X8 plywood around like a trusty pick up. It lasted quite awhile.
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My father bought our first Country Squire in 1967, took a vacation to Myrtle Beach. My father bought 4 more and I owned 2,no other car like it, thank you Ford.
11.00 am 18 September I owned four station wagons until I brought the 96 Windstar into the family. A 64 Pontiac 2 seater, a 63 Chevy Impala 3 seat model, a 77 Pontiac 3 seater and a 85 Mercury wood panel 3 seater. These station wagons were great grocery or hardware store haulers and the kids loved them especially on the long trips. Now into SUV’s but not the same utility as a wagon.
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We had a 1984 country squire and it was awesome.
Our family had a 72 County Squire bought brand new from Spinelli Ford in Sayerville NJ. GREAT CAR!
Oh wow!
Great topic and information. The footage was good video and photo. I am glad you went through all the way until the end in 1991. GM went to 1996 with their wagons. Suv's killed them. I would take a Mercury Grand Marquis Colony Park from the 80's or the early 1990's or maybe even one from the late 1970's- 1975-1978. It would have been nice to see the Mercury mentioned, but thank you for the video. I had a late aunt who owned a 1978-1979 Caprice Classic Estate wagon that was loaded. I recall every time they visited or when visited them. I recall that wagon.