the Fiat 130 Villa d’Este of Gianni Agnelli

https://petrolicious.com/articles/agnelli-s-one-off-fiat-130-station-wagon

55 or 56 Plymouth surf wagon with a racing stripe... you don't see that every day

 

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-snapshots-and-photography/vintage-snapshots-station-wagons-in-the-1950s-part-3/

sweet Pontiac wagon!

the Studebaker was his swagger wagon.

 I just realized that the swagger wagon marketing campaign was about a dozen years ago. Damn, I've been blogging a while! 

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/11/nothing-like-red-studebaker.html

beautiful 57 Pontiac

 

very unexpected surprise car to see at SEMA was this '61 Rambler station wagon

the most fun car project I found at SEMA was in the central hall... it's the Strickland Car Co

https://www.stricklandmotorco.com/
https://www.facebook.com/stricklandmotorco/

Datsun? It think so...

Hurst (not Oldsmobile) provided the pace car for the `72 Indy 500, and outfitted some Vista Cruisers with the same equipment as the pace car(s). The wagons were used for doctor cars and press cars.

Hurst supplied the speedway with at least a couple of Hurst/Olds Vista Cruiser station wagons labeled “Medical “ as well as “Press and Photographer”.

https://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/1972_Hurst_Olds_Vista_Cruiser.html

https://wbckfm.com/kalamazoo-mans-restored-indy-500-vista-cruiser-at-grand-rapids-auto-show

https://musclecarandcorvettenationals.blogspot.com/2022/07/keeping-things-interesting-at-mcacn.html

1968 Pontiac Tempest Safari wagon.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1372173509928253&set=a.347169822428632
https://musclecarandcorvettenationals.blogspot.com/2022/07/keeping-things-interesting-at-mcacn.html

some odd and crazy stuff is still on the road

Rømø Motor Festival is just winding up, and Kim sent me a couple photos!

https://www.facebook.com/romomotorfestival/

https://www.romomotorfestival.dk/

from the original Beetlejuice movie

The Ford Falcon was a scaled-down version of the Ford Galaxie, and the best-selling compact car at that time (1960s)

The first compact car marketed by the American Big Three automobile manufacturers (though antedated by the Rambler American), the Falcon was the third car line introduced by Ford, following the full-sized Ford and the Ford Thunderbird.

In contrast to its competitors, the Falcon was developed as a scaled-down version of the full-size Ford Galaxie sedan. Through its production, the Falcon was offered in the same body styles as its full-sized Galaxie counterpart, including two-door and four-door sedans, two-door hardtops and convertibles, two-door and four-door station wagons (the former, serving as a basis of the final Ford sedan delivery), and coupe utility pickups (serving as the basis of the Ford Ranchero).

here's something you surely haven't seen before: a six-car collection of yellow Pinto wagons. (People will collect anything!)

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/lot-of-six-yellow-ford-pinto-wagons-shows-people-will-collect-anything-231494.html#

“noun piles” are strings of attributive noun linguists like

an example of how far noun piling could be extended is single yet six-word-long noun “station wagon car seat installation instructions.”

https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/04/examples-of-noun-piles.html

10.9 @ 124 in the 1/4... with a hellcat motor, a roof rack, and it's got more cargo capacity than I remember!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/668313923974436/permalink/1654316142040871

Detroit Autorama

The toughest part of the build? “The windshield,” McCarl says, not missing a beat. “That’s number 13.” The glass just kept breaking when cut by traditional methods; water jetting, a new-school method, did the trick. “I refer to that as my $3000 windshield.”

Chrysler 300

I covered the story on this hot rod in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/02/right-place-right-time-car-gets-to-be.html

AMC Concord wagon! 

Mike Clarahan's '67 Jaguar widebody

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-what-i-saw-at-detroits-legendary-autorama-hotrod-show/

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/detroit-autorama-is-not-just-for-motown-muscle-its-for-mclaren-mg-and-miata-too/

https://www.detroitnews.com/picture-gallery/media/photo/2024/03/01/gallery-2024-autorama-batmobiles-ridlers-hot-rods-and-evel-kneivel/72796602007/

https://www.hagerty.com/media/events/9-of-our-favorite-customs-at-detroit-autorama-2024/