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Ford Fairlane 500 Squire, 1963. The 4th generation Fairlane moved from full-size to intermediate to bridge the gap between the compact Ford Falcon and the larger Galaxie. The Squire woody wagon was only offered for 1963. #ford #estate #stationwagon #classiccar #weirdcarmastodon Source carsthatnevermadeitetc.tumblr.com

1973 Ford Pinto Wagon Advertisement
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#Ford #Pinto #FordPinto #stationwagon #Advertisement #Retro #Vintage #Automotive #CarsOfMastodon

Do you advertisement is titled “Three basic reasons why the Pinto Wagon is the best-selling economy wagon in America“ you see a small to medium sized station wagon in the color red. There’s the faux wood accents along the sides. The car is facing from right to left. Below the car is a lot of information about what you’re purchasing. In less than one year, the Pinto Wagon became far and IT'S ENGINEERED FOR DEPENDABILITY. away America's favorite small wagon. Ahead of Vega A rugged 2,000 cc cam-in-head Kammback and VW Squareback; ahead of all Toyota, engine (right) is standard on Pinto Datsun and Opel wagons combined. Wagon. It delivers all the power and The reasons are simple, Its First and foremost, the Pinto Wagon is an economy car: dependability has been low in price, easy on gas, low on upkeep. developed in millions of But it's also a roomy little wagon. miles of actual driving. Put the rear seat down and you get Front disc The Pinto Wagon was designed to maximize carrying space. with durability in mind-from the welded unitized You get comfort and luxury, too: steel body to the extra strength ball and universal highback front bucket seats, plush carpeting, and plenty joints and the full synchromesh transmission. of leg, head, shoulder and hip room. Economy, depend- All this at a base sticker price of $2,319

@vwdasher

I wish they would bring the station wagon back.

Specifically, the Country Squire.

#stationwagon

Vintage 1040 Bantam Model 65 Station Wagon, Forney Museum of Transportation, Denver, Colorado

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#woody #stationwagon #car #auto #automobile #history #chevy #chevrolet #photography #forney #transportation #museum #denver #colorado #travel

The image features a vintage brown car, likely from the 1930s or 1940s, prominently displayed in what appears to be a museum or exhibition setting. The car has a classic design with a rounded front, large circular headlights, and a prominent vertical grille. The body is painted in a glossy brown finish, and the car has wood paneling on the sides, which is characteristic of station wagons from that era. The driver's side door is open, revealing a glimpse of the interior, which includes a wooden dashboard and a steering wheel. The car's license plate is visible, reading "COLORADO 940-40." The background shows other vintage cars, suggesting a collection or exhibition. The lighting is bright, highlighting the car's polished surface and the surrounding environment.

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Vintage 1040 Bantam Model 65 Station Wagon, Forney Museum of Transportation, Denver, Colorado

#woody #stationwagon #car #auto #automobile #history #chevy #chevrolet #photography #forney #transportation #museum #denver #colorado #travel

Zeekr Launches the 007 GT; Its Second Electrified Station Wagon #007gt #automotive #china #electricvehicles #europe #stationwagon #zeekr

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/349807/zeekr-launches-the-007-gt-its-second-electrified-station-wagon/

Just added 5 Unique Automotive, diecast/small scale, pieces to the collection from this past weekend.

Went antiquing over several days, and found these 5 pieces made by F&F Mold & Die out of Ohio. They were part of a series of cars offered by Post Cereal as mail in “rebates” in the 1960s(?). As always here, station wagons rank higher in Uniqueness than the other vehicles offered. 😁🤷🏻‍♂️

Enjoy!

#UniqueAutomotive #UniqueAutomotive2014
#Wagon #StationWagon #Diecast #AutomotiveToys
#Ford #PostCereal

Two antique plastic station wagon toys made by F&F Mold & Die from Ohio that were given away by Post Cereal in the 1960s.

Three antique plastic station wagon toys made by F&F Mold & Die from Ohio that were given away by Post Cereal in the 1960s.

Five antique plastic station wagon toys made by F&F Mold & Die from Ohio that were given away by Post Cereal in the 1960s.

How does one manage to park lumbering land sharks and #ClassicCars on #SanFrancisco’s notoriously scant street spots? If possible, this 1963 #Ford #CountrySedan #StationWagon seemed even bigger in person when I walked by it on #NobHill than it does these photos.

Photograph from a front three-quarters view of a vintage station wagon automobile, highlighting its expansive hood and wide windshield, four round headlights, and perforated chrome grille. A nameplate spelling #Ford in widely-spaced letters is faintly visible on the front lip of the car’s hood. The vehicle was painted cream but now shows large amounts of rust, sun-bleaching, and other damage to its finish. The car is parked at the curb of a downward-sloping urban street with Victorian-style apartment buildings and other vehicles visible in the sunny background.

Photograph from a head-on front view of a vintage station wagon automobile, highlighting its expansive hood and wide windshield, four round headlights, and perforated chrome grille. A nameplate spelling #Ford in widely-spaced letters is faintly visible on the front lip of the car’s hood. The vehicle was painted cream but now shows large amounts of rust, sun-bleaching, and other damage to its finish. The car is parked at the curb of a downward-sloping urban street with Victorian-style apartment buildings and other vehicles visible in the sunny background.

Photograph from a direct rear view of a vintage automobile, highlighting its wide frame, expansive glass rear windshield, pie-like round taillights, and perforated chrome detailing. A decorative badge and nameplate spelling #CountrySedan in streamlined script letters is attached to the station wagon’s rear gate. The car was painted cream but now shows extensive patches of rust, sun-bleaching, and other damage to its finish. The car is parked at the street curb, with trees, houses, and other vehicles visible in the sunny background.

@jaap
Funny thing is, in the early 80s when I was an operator, I had to drive a lot of mag tapes from one manufacturing plant to another :)

#bandwidth #storage #networking #stationwagon

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

This quote about the bandwidth of physical transportation is roughly 10 years older than me. It came up in the Packet Pushers slack channel, and somebody wondered if it's still valid in 2025. Ouch! I got nerd sniped! Now I'm wondering too. Let's investigate.

To start, we'll need some numbers. This is gonna be pretty big on guesstimates, royally rounding things up or down, and ignoring some geometrical factors.

I can't ascertain the quote's origin, but I'm certain it originated in the USA. A 1975 American station wagon could have been a Ford LTD Wagon. Let's pick that one, it looks like a sweet ride. According to the brochure, it features a cargo volume of "over 100 cu. ft. counting lockable below-deck stowage". That's over 2,800,000 cubic centimers.

Let's choose a distance outside of the USA, UK, Liberia and Myanmar. That way we can stick with the International System of Units (SI), avoid dealing with miles, and avoid deteriorating our sanity any further.
One of my longer road trips featured a drive from Rome, IT to Dordrecht, NL: around 1600 kilometers. Assuming two alternating drivers, some bad traffic and some stops, let's say the drive takes us 25 hours.

The bandwidth could be 800 Gbit/s today, ignoring bandwidth-delay product. If you get creative with source and destination storage arrays and the network inbetween, you could conceivably multiplex and achieve some multiple, but 800 Gbit/s seems like a fair number so we'll stick with that.

Pushing 800 Gbit/s for 25 hours straight, we're are able to transfer a total of 9,000,000 gigabytes (9,000 terabytes or 9 petabytes). At this point I'm already intuiting the final answer, but let's move along.

According to a quick Google search, the highest capacity SSD for the last few years (HDD's don't come close anymore) has been the ExaDrive EDDCT100/EDDCS100 at 100TB. The ExaDrive is a 3.5" SSD. However, Solidigm is currently releasing a 122.88TB version of the D5-P5336 SSD. The D5-P5336 is a tall 2.5" SSD with a volume of 105 cubic centimeters. The weight is guesstimated at 300 grams.

A possible alternative are microSD cards. The highest capacity ones are 1.5 TB today. A microSD card weighs about 0.5 grams. The volume of a single card is about 0.165 cubic centimeters. So a microSD fits in the tall 2.5" SSD model roughly 636 times. Rounding up, the microSD's give us a nice single petabyte in the volume of a single tall 2.5" SSD, or almost a factor 10 difference. Interestingly, the weight of a single tall 2.5" SSD's volume is roughly equal to the weight of that same volume in microSD cards. So microSD cards it will be!

To keep things simple, let's work with the rounded numbers we have so far. 105 cubic centimeters worth of microSD cards will fit into the Ford LTD Wagon more than 25.000 times. However, that would be almost 10 million microSD cards, or almost 5000 kilograms of them. I can't find all the numbers for the Ford LTD Wagon, but the towing capacity I found was close to 1000 kg. I'm taking the towing capacity as an indication of the weight capacity of the car itself, even though there are different factors involved. Assuming a couple of humans and a bunch of stuff actually in the car during that towing, I'm picking a maximum of 1500 kg worth of microSD's. With two drivers, let's hope that the axles will hold and sacrifice a goat for zero speed bumps. 1500 kg would allow for 3 million microSD cards or 4500 petabytes.

One final note: we're ignoring the time it might take to transfer some data set from some storage array to 3 million microSD's (and to load them into the station wagon) before departing. We're also unsure about and ignoring any transfer time after arriving at the destination. I suspect these same assumptions were also in place about the tapes when the original quote was made.

The suggested drive will take 25 hours, and in that time the 800 Gbit/s connection will "only" transfer 9 petabytes. So with 4500 petabytes, the station wagon will transfer about 500 times more data than the 800 Gbit/s connection. Wow! You'd need a lot of multiplexing to offset the difference.

It's clear that the limiting factor is the weight capacity of the station wagon. A small truck or sturdy van would have been a more sensible choice. In any case, the station wagon wins hands down. Unless that old thing breaks down.

#bandwidth #storage #networking #stationwagon

A few Unique Automotive books that were recently added to the Automotive collection here. Ford Magazines from 1939 and 1941, that came from a Ford Dealer in Arizona. Lots of cool ads and stories! Love the story about the “new” Pennsylvania Turnpike!

Enjoy!

#UniqueAutomotive #UniqueAutomotive2014
#Wagon #StationWagon #Ford #AutomotiveHistory
#Options #Ads

Two vintage Ford News magazines from 1939.

Three vintage Ford News magazines from 1941.

The back covers of 5 vintage Ford News magazines from 1939 and 1941 with ads for various Ford products.

A story page from a 1939 issue of Ford Magazine advertising the “new” Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Just added some most Unique Automotive books, flyers, and blueprints to the collection from a recent ephemera auction.

I do love the old advertising, and the blueprints are most excellent! Still trying to determine an age on them, they may not be original blueprints but they are very old copies for sure!

Enjoy!

#UniqueAutomotive #UniqueAutomotive2014
#Wagon #StationWagon #Advertising #Cunningham
#Ford #Fiat

Packages full of vintage automotive books and advertising.

An old matchbook cover advertising a Truck Service in Kansas City, Kansas called Metro Truck.

A pile of Ford News magazines from the 1940s.

Vintage automotive blueprints from James Cunningham, Sons & Co, Rochester NY.

Happy #caturday from the car that has cat eyes. 1959 Chevrolet Impala advertisement.
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#Chevrolet #Chevy #Impala #Advertisement #Stationwagon #midcenturymodern #Retro #Vintage #CarsOfMastodon

A woman and child waves goodbye to a man as he walks down the ramp of his mid-century home. The home appears to be in a desert environment as there’s a saguaro cactus in the background. There are two 1959 Chevrolet Impala‘s in the driveway. One is the station wagon while the other one is the hard top

Royal Falcon

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#car
#machine
#auto
#automobile
#limousine
#motorcar
#motor
#wagon
#convertible
#motorvehicle
#coupe
#sedan
#coupé
#sportscar
#woodie
#hardtop
#woody
#stationwagon
#gas-guzzler
#towncar
#subcompact
#jalopy
#roadster
#fastback
#muscle car
#sport-utilityvehicle
#touring car
#land yacht

Imperial Rambler

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#car
#machine
#auto
#automobile
#limousine
#motorcar
#motor
#wagon
#convertible
#motorvehicle
#coupe
#sedan
#coupé
#sportscar
#woodie
#hardtop
#woody
#stationwagon
#gas-guzzler
#towncar
#subcompact
#jalopy
#roadster
#fastback
#muscle car
#sport-utilityvehicle
#touring car

Seabreeze Sentinel

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#car
#machine
#auto
#automobile
#limousine
#motorcar
#motor
#wagon
#convertible
#motorvehicle
#coupe
#sedan
#coupé
#sportscar
#woodie
#hardtop
#woody
#stationwagon
#gas-guzzler
#towncar
#subcompact
#jalopy
#roadster
#fastback
#muscle car
#sport-utility vehicle
#touring car

Unique for sure!

I’ve always loved the Poison ☠️ Pinto from the day it was released in the mid 1970s. Who wouldn’t love a hot rodded, Ford Pinto, Wagon, an I right? Put it up on a 4x4 chassis and it’s a win-win build!

Recently released in this two pack with Rodger Dodger, it was a must have. With only minor tweaks from the original (last pic) it has stayed an absolute favorite!

Enjoy!

#UniqueAutomotive #UniqueAutomotive2014
#Wagon #StationWagon #Diecast #AutomotiveToys
#Ford #Pinto
#Dodge

A 4x4 Ford Pinto station wagon made by HotWheels called the Poison Pinto.

A two pack of 4x4 car toys made by HotWheels. The Poison Pinto and Rodger Dodger.

The original Poison Pinto diecast car released in the mid 1970s by HotWheels.

A very early woodie, I don't know the year/make. Looks like a fun way to get around, and you could easily fit a surfboard on top!
#antique #auto #woodie #stationwagon

An antique auto, a station wagon with a wood body, the rest of the auto is black. Probably from the 1920s. It is sitting in a parking lot with trees in the background.

More Unique Automotive Toys were released from their plastic today and can breathe easy.

This time around we set a few more wagons free.
A ‘62 Biscayne w/trailer by Maisto
A ‘65 Chevelle by Muscle Machines
And two ‘64 Novas, both by HotWheels

All very nice additions to the collection!
Enjoy!

#UniqueAutomotive #UniqueAutomotive2014
#Wagon #StationWagon #Diecast #AutomotiveToys
#Chevrolet #Chevy
#Nova
#Chevelle
#Biscayne