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1956 Ford Country Sedan wagon: The once and future Explorer

February 13, 2024 Steve 5

(EXPANDED FROM 1/25/2022) Nineteen-fifty-six was a pivotal year for Ford station wagons. This was essentially the last time that the brand would offer an old-fashioned, utilitarian wagon for more than three decades. When the Ford […]

1966 Mercury Colony Park wagon was an unsung bright spot for the brand

October 7, 2022 Steve 4

Mercury’s Colony Park never got a huge amount of attention, but it generated steadily increasing sales throughout the second half of the 1960s. For example, in 1966 almost 19,000 of the top-of-line Mercury wagons were […]