The station wagon

TGIN · Jan 28, 2014

The station wagon was mentioned below . That is what we had for a family car when I was a kid [57 chevy wagon] . We raised sheep and it was used to haul feed and supplys . When we had a old ewe or two that needed to go to the salebarn Dad let me stay home from school and we would tie there legs together and put them in the back .I would ride back there with them incase they got to flopping around . Then hangout at the auction all day . One of my favorite things to do . Who else used a station wagon for a truck .

Aaron Ford · Jan 28, 2014

We used a truck for a station wagon... Not safe, or a good idea, but that was the 70s-80s

Aaron

Michael Soldan · Jan 28, 2014

I remember the older cars with distinct fenders and their owners would put a bag of feed over each fender,the running board would keep it in place usually front fenders,trunk and back seat would hold some more bags.

rrlund · Jan 28, 2014

Dad had a 58 Chevy station wagon. We hauled an Oliver 2 bottom rooter comb plow home 150 miles from Archbold Ohio in the back of it one time. We did alright til we hit a rough rail road crossing with it. She bottomed out a little. Had an old neighbor who had a 58 too. He never owned a pickup.

Zachary Hoyt · Jan 28, 2014

We still carry a goat in the trunk of a Subaru Outback fairly regularly, at least once or twice a year. We put a rubber sheet on the floor and hay over it. It is our only road vehicle.
Zach

Bill(Wis) · Jan 28, 2014

Back around 1940 Ford offered a "Carpenter's Coupe". The trunk compartment had no divider in the front so it was open to the passenger compartment which only had a front bench seat. Our neighbor bought one mainly to deliver little pigs to buyers in cold weather. He had straw or wood shavings in the back for bedding and they stayed nice and warm all the way to their new home.

Wheat Farmer · Jan 28, 2014

We used a Subaru forester for hauling Alpacas when we couldn't get a trailer out. People would start to pass and then back off and take other look.

rick n ohio · Jan 28, 2014

back around 1963 dad hauled my shetland pony in the back of a rambler station wagon to the local vet after he got kicked by the neighbors big work horse.
RICK

Anonymous-0 · Jan 28, 2014

Brother-in-law had, and still has a 58 Ford 2 door wagon. He hauled a hog to the locker to butcher one day. He said he got a lot of looks as he went down the highway. A little messy, but easier than borrowing a truck.

Chris(WA) · Jan 28, 2014

No station wagon but I do remember my dad hauling calves in the trunk of the '59 Buick.They seemed to do just fine back there.

Pops1532 · Jan 28, 2014

My parents had '59 and '66 Ford wagons.
Wife's parents had "65 and '74 Chevy wagons.

Mike M · Jan 28, 2014

When I was little we had a 1963 ? Studebaker wagon that the roof would slide forward into the front. You could then haul big items upright in the back.

magpiene · Jan 28, 2014

I am using a Subaru Legacy wagon as a work/farm run around right now. GOTTA LOVE 26 MPG.

oldtanker · Jan 28, 2014

When dad retired from the Army he had a 69 AMC wagon. When he started milking he used it to haul cans to the creamery every day.

Rick

Mike (WA) · Jan 28, 2014

Daughter has a truck now, but used to fill her Subaru wagon with something every time she came to visit- firewood, hay, garden stuff or whatever, to haul back to her home 100 miles away. Her dog loved it, because then he got to ride in the front, where his slobbering and face-shaking would do some good (German Shepherd/ Rottweiler cross- he just loves everyone he knows, but the strangers, well, not so much. . .)

INCase · Jan 28, 2014

dad had a 1974 Ford LTD wagon. Never hauled farm items in it but did load it down with lumber we had sawn up from our logs on a few occations. Had air springs so it was like a truck.

I Hauled a 1 bottom 3pt plow with our mini-van (basically a station wagon...and by the way.. no matter what people think, so are blazers and explorers and suburbans too just bigger).

Neighbor back home never had a pick-up. He used his last car as a beater and used it for a pickup or took the grain truck. Seen him drive the beater (a 1965 chevy bisquane) thru plowed fields to get tools to a tractor.

howdy1960 · Jan 28, 2014

Had more statoin wagons than trucks. I like them large enough to carry a full sheet plywood or 10 inside and close gate lol

farmerwithmutt · Jan 28, 2014

cant forget the time my nephew bought calves and brought them home to my place i told him he have to hold them so 2 high school kids 2 holstien calves and an uncle that likes to have fun all in a ford escort . he made me clean it and it had to be driven with windows down for some time but the screams cursing etc from the backseat!! i offered to do it again but he turned me down??

Dick2 · Jan 28, 2014

I had an old Econoline van that I gave to my nephew for fox trapping. Whenever he saw a sick calf in the cow yard, he'd drive the van out there, open the side door and lift the calf inside, then drive it up to the vet to save the vet from coming out to the farm. It was real handy for him.

merlynr · Jan 28, 2014

My 99 Explorer is my beater pu and it's just like a Ranger with a topper. The back seat is folded down most of the time with a piece of cardboard in it. Wife hauls horse feed in it all the time. Don't drive the pu much because the Explorer far better mileage. I went to a metal shop for a piece of 4" wide 1/4" stock and looked in his junk pile for about 20 min and couldn't find a suitable piece so I told him I would buy new and he says they are 10' long. Well I asked him if he could cut it at 3' and he said no problem so I hauled the two pieces in the Explorer with the long piece sticking up front on the console.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 28, 2014

We used our VW bus to take the kids and a pony to a 4-H show. On the way home we stopped for ice cream, got a cone for the pony too. The kids had the side door open, holding the cone for the pony. The car beside us left. The expression on the face of the lady in the next car was priceless.

flambeauone · Jan 28, 2014

I have a well beaten honda crv. It's hauled everything from wheel weights to building supplies.

JMS/.MN · Jan 28, 2014

Had a 77 Ford wagon that I used for hauling bagged feed in its later years. In the 90s I hauled a dead cow to U of MN to get posted to determine cause of death. Vet thought I should cover it with a tarp, but it fell off the loader in a perfect upright sitting position in the back of the pickup, so I just headed down the road. Got some weird looks going down State highway, then Interstate 694 and 35, passing school buses and others in Metro area.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 28, 2014

I liked them 47 Merc "woody" 51 Rambler 54 Chev. 55 Ghev--77 Chev. 85 Chev then went to a Chrysler T&C 4X4 now a KiA. I have been places in those old wagons that $ wheel drive trucks would have trouble. I always wanted to set one on a 4X4 frame, so little time, so many projects.

IH2444 · Jan 28, 2014

It is amazing what a person can fit into the rear of a Subaru Loyalle wagon.
I have ahuled a full sized Washer and Dryer in ther and the tailgate shut too.
Had it plumb full of asphalt shingles once. rode really low must have been 3/4 ton in there, 30 bundles as I recall.

Had it 14 years and put 310,000 miles on it.
Hauled it to the crusher last year, engine worn out and lots of rust showing up.

Had a Volare wagon before that. Slant 6 put 250,000 miles on that one and never had the head or oil pan off of it.
could haul full sheets of plywood in that one.

Drive a 72 F100 now. Miss having a covered rear....

casenut1 · Jan 28, 2014

Not a wagon but a VW bus. Had a bench seat up front with a steel wall at the back of the seat.Remove the back bench seats and the floor was rubber coated. Hauled feeder pigs to town on several occasions. When home just hose it out and let it dry.

fixerupper · Jan 28, 2014

When Marilyn was still at home they'd get the whole family in the station wagon- all seventeen of them. Jim

Bret4207 · Jan 29, 2014

We never had a PU till about 1975. Dad had the family wagon and a dump trailer he built. We hauled everything with that combo.

I had a 68 Chevelle wagon, 307, 3 on the tree. Best riding car I ever owned. Used to till gardens for extra money. The tiller would just fit in the back with the window down. Hauled everything and anything with that rig.

Today I have a 95 Suburban. It's my truck. Can't haul a big trailer with it anymore due to rust, so a 3/4 ton truck is in my future, but I love the Burb.

showcrop · Jan 29, 2014

(quoted from post at 08:48:36 01/28/14) Dad had a 58 Chevy station wagon. We hauled an Oliver 2 bottom rooter comb plow home 150 miles from Archbold Ohio in the back of it one time. We did alright til we hit a rough rail road crossing with it. She bottomed out a little. Had an old neighbor who had a 58 too. He never owned a pickup.

My dad had a '58 Chevy wagon too. We never had a farm just a very big garden which was half cut flowers for sale. He hauled a lot of material for projects though. A fellow that I worked with in 1971 had a Scout pick-up that was his only vehicle. He had two kids and he built a little box at the front of the pick-up box for them to sit in. The rear window of the cab would be open, but the kids didn't look real comfortable back there.

barnE · Jan 30, 2014

hAD 60 Ford wagon when we married. Lotta jokes about that. Were gonna have 13 kids. Nother joke. Beautiful cruiser with 352 engine. Wife attached flowers with duct tape. Never got them all off. Bought new tires from Monkey wards. Next day all flat. They did not change valve stems. Many cars later, same wife 48 years. Dave

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