Station wagons and road trips to who-knows-where-this-time, a wonderful combination. Or, at least, that’s what I keep getting told by people at least ten years older than I am when the subject comes up. You didn’t live until you found yourself in the back end of some mammoth wagon, peering out of the windows into the wide world around you as it moved by at the national 55 mile per hour limit, the wind from a cracked window or a vent window doing very little to offset the roasting effect of sun-warmed vinyl, as your siblings take that one last nerve you have and proceed to play jump-rope with it. Those were the days, huh? You tell me…the only station wagon I’ve ever experienced was a Chevy Cavalier, and my only true memory of it (besides what it looked like) was the day I puked in the back seat after eating something my stomach didn’t like at a Rax restaurant. Good riddance to a horrible product…I hope that Cavi was shredded. Not stripped, not scrapped, not squished. Shredded. Never to bother anyone else again.
Finding this 1975 Ford Country Squire on eBay, however, almost makes me understand the idea. Look at this big mother! That “Dark Yellow Green” (aka Metallic Pea) and the Di-Noc fake wood paneling just scream 1970s Family Travel! Even the freaking rear spoiler has woodgrain! And that spoiler might have a chance of actually being useful, because under the absolutely expansive hood is the 460, Ford’s omnipresent FE big-block. Thirstier than a man lost in the desert and packing all the punch that 218 horsepower could possibly put out, the 1975 Country Squire was just the vessel for safe family motoring: full frame, heavy weight, battle-ram bumpers, and unlikely to do any serious speed without going foot-to-the-floor.
If you aren’t humming “Holiday Road” to yourself yet, just wait. You will.
eBay Link: 1975 Ford LTD Country Squire
Where would you park that thing ? In truck stops ?
We, as a nation, were Really Stupid when it came to vehicles back then
Seating capacity of 9. Comfortably. The only way to transport a large family (back when 3-5 kids was not that unusual), and gear, for week long vacation.
The only alternative was a full-size van.
Oh, ooohhhhh! You’re gonna get pounced upon by Ford fanatics for referring to a 460 as a FE, which it isn’t. Your punshiment is having to eat whatever you find between the seat cushions of that beast!
Got my drivers license in a white 76 Country Squire very much like this 75. Before that dad had a 69 in the very same colour combo as this one, hell yeah I could drive this gutless gas sucking hog a little bit.
Would bring back great family road trippin memories in our old 1969 Country Squire, and drive-in movie memories with the girlfriend in the 1976.
my summer time D/D is a 78 Mercury marquis same size as this thing
worth about 1/4 what his buy it now price is
I had a 78 Mercury Colony Park wagon. 400/C6 it had the rust.
That means the frame was too rotted to be a derby car. The frame was so rotted the rear bumper fell off jacking the thing up by the rear end housing. The 70’s ford 5mph impact bumper Frames did not fair well anyplace where rust happens. That may be in Kansas now, but it has a Rust hole threw that rear bumper.
I would not buy that car with out a underside inspection on a lift.