The long-roof itch is one that will never be fully scratched around here. We love our wagons! We love them to have power, to have personality, and if it’s got three pedals, then all the better. And this 1967 Ford Ranch Wagon scratches each and every itch. Ranch Wagons were the lowest tier on the station wagon scale at Ford. You could have sprung for a Country Sedan or the more well-known Country Squire, complete with that sweet, sweet wood paneling, but the Ranch Wagon was simply admitting that you went cheap with no shame whatsoever. We’d stick with the comparisons between the wagon levels, but that would simply be filler…instead, focus on what this Ranch Wagon has been turned into: our ideal family vehicle. It’s not an SUV. It’s got air conditioning, disc brakes at all four corners, and tinted glass for comfort and ease of operation. It’s got a 428ci with a 3×2 setup on top, a TopLoader four-speed and a factory Trac-Lok rear axle, so when the on-ramps come up, the kids can get ready to feel some acceleration g‘s. And the best reason of all to own this thing: it isn’t an anonymous silver blob that has all the personality of a soap bubble in dirty dishwater. 

Remember when wagons weren’t cool and you couldn’t wait to raid the engine so you could send that body off to the yard? Yeah…start atoning for that. There isn’t any part of this car we’d change. Kudos to the builder and whoever had the vision to put it together, they knocked it out of the park.

Mecum Auctions Kansas City 2018: Lot S98 – 1967 Ford Ranch Wagon