Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

**V8Ian** · 18th February 2025, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Saitch

Spot my mate beside the Chamberlain.
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Is he about to crank start it?

**Tins** · 18th February 2025, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by Saitch

Spot my mate beside the Chamberlain.
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I remember them as being bigger.

**Tins** · 18th February 2025, 09:15 PM

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**Tins** · 18th February 2025, 09:16 PM

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**Tins** · 18th February 2025, 09:16 PM

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**Old Farang** · 19th February 2025, 11:27 PM

FORGOTTEN EXTREME Car Uncovered

**V8Ian** · 21st February 2025, 11:18 PM

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**superquag** · 22nd February 2025, 08:40 PM

By sheer chance, found this neat video about what used to be THE definition of a "Family Car" ...

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9NPMZW4bQ0

and this, stuff nightmares are made of..... water and Lucas Electrics...

https://x.com/thecleancarclub/status...62012's=42

**JDNSW** · 23rd February 2025, 06:11 AM

The station wagon story given is very much the American station wagon story.

In this country, station wagons were virtually non-existent until the 1950s, and by the 1960s they became commonplace as family cars. The attraction of them for the buyers was pretty much as laid out in the video. For manufacturers, that a large proportion of the parts were the same as the sedan, and they could be built on the same assembly line, and hence could be sold for only a small premium above the sedan, so buyers could afford them.

Almost none of the wagons shown in the video were ever sold in Australia, and station wagons remained very rare until the release of the first Holden wagon in 1957, and Ford produced a wagon only months after the first Falcon sedan in 1960. Into the 1960s wagons became so popular that it seemed like most of the makers were selling them along with sedans by the middle of the sixties.

I don't think I had ever seen a station wagon until the first Holden one, and by then I could be described as a car mad teenager, very well informed about cars (but to put it in perspective - no TV until about the same date as the first Holden wagon, and I rarely got to the movies).

**Saitch** · 23rd February 2025, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The station wagon story given is very much the American station wagon story.

In this country, station wagons were virtually non-existent until the 1950s, and by the 1960s they became commonplace as family cars. The attraction of them for the buyers was pretty much as laid out in the video. For manufacturers, that a large proportion of the parts were the same as the sedan, and they could be built on the same assembly line, and hence could be sold for only a small premium above the sedan, so buyers could afford them.

Almost none of the wagons shown in the video were ever sold in Australia, and station wagons remained very rare until the release of the first Holden wagon in 1957, and Ford produced a wagon only months after the first Falcon sedan in 1960. Into the 1960s wagons became so popular that it seemed like most of the makers were selling them along with sedans by the middle of the sixties.

I don't think I had ever seen a station wagon until the first Holden one, and by then I could be described as a car mad teenager, very well informed about cars (but to put it in perspective - no TV until about the same date as the first Holden wagon, and I rarely got to the movies).

I remember, in the '50s/'60's, our "Rawleigh's Man" having a station wagon. I'm thinking Vauxhall? It wasn't a large vehicle, from memory.

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