Many of us Hambers were raised in the back of a wagon that was used for daily transportation ,but also back in the day they we used for hunting,fishing & family camping trips. Any vintage illustration or photos of Station Wagons being used for family recreation? HRP
I've own 18 def station wagons ,mostly Ford,Merc, one AMC n one Chevy, over the years,yup love them ,@ 74 still do. I towed my racecars with them{used all as a cool truck that locks up my tools an parts] camped in them,dated in them. Retired now,so only have my old highschool hotrod from 1959,I restored am drive on weekends now. Actully looking this month for another used wagon to replace my every day to day Ford Focus,so I'm looking for Dodge Magnum wagon. IF things go right I'll have my 19th wagon soon.
Hey HRP, Here is a post from the Family Photo Album. It was the family on the annual camping trip at the Salton Sea in Southwest California. The kids enjoyed it, until the shotgun came out and made loud noises. What is a kid supposed to do but cover their ears? Jnaki 1959-60 Salton Sea, California. Salton Sea Camping 1959 Hello, Camping with the family back in those days called for a family sized 1959 Chevy 4 door wagon. Everything was packed, tent, stove, cooler, cooking stuff and of course, tons of food. A small outboard powered boat was towed, for fishing? Salton Sea? Corvina was plentiful…(but Tilapia still thrives, today) We were able to just float around and play. Our mom usually maintained the cooking while our dad did the fishing and fake hunting. When other people would drive up to the campsite, the big shot gun came out and big booms went out over the water. Needless to say, the nearby camping site became empty again. He was a mean one, Mr. Grinch ! Jnaki JNAKI, DEC 12, 2016 EDIT DELETE !REPORT! SHARE POST#298 + Q
OK... all the wagons i/ we have ever owned are/were H.A.M.B. friendly... so now i gotta dig out those pictures eh...
Yup.... Road in the back of a few. Dad had owned a 59 Rambler, a 63 then a 65. Later got a 70 Pontiac. My first one was my first car.... 56 Merc, then a 65 Impala, 71 Merc, and a couple of newer ones. I bet I racked up 100,000 miles in the back of the ones Dad owned! Sent from my Moto G Play using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Not vintage, so I guess I'm going off topic, but here's my 63 with one of my favourite people in the foreground. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I tend to bring a lot of extra stuff on roadtrips and campouts, but I gotta say I've never packed a rake. Camping and roadtrips must have been something from say the 30s thru the 70s, it's a lot more yuppified now. Love those old magazine prints.
you asked for it! Between the 1957 Plymouth wagon, and the 1967 Plymouth wagon, we had a 1964 Citroen ID19 wagon. We camped in it. I might be the kid here...or I might not...but that's Mom cooking dinner. In 1966.
My "Beach Wagon" was a 71 LTD fully loaded with BBF 400. What a boat. Back in 74. Most versitle vehile for families made. Later had a 81 Caprice Classic . Great cars.
Well, OK, but in the picture posted above it looks like there isn't a pine, or a cone, within a mile of that camp. In fact it also sort of looks like they set up in the middle of the road. Our family wasn't big on camping. Kids like it, of course. We took a trip to Hackensack, Minn. (10 Mile Lake iirc) in the 60s and stayed at some cabins. Henry owned them, whoever he was. I'm sure it's all been ruined by now. Mom didn't like cabin living too much, and that, as they say, was the end of that. Lake water, worms, and gasoline about 5 or 6 am combine to form the BEST smell in the world though I remember that. My uncle, a WWII vet, took his family camping quite a bit. He was a cheap SOB was a big part of it I think. He wanted his family to see America - Yellowstone, the Sierra, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Arches, Rocky Mountain, etc. Another WWII veteran, when I once mentioned camping, just looked at me like I was an idiot and spit it back out. "Camping! I did all the camping I'll ever want to do, in New Guinea in 1942."
Sounds/Looks like my mint maguum RT, my first wagon in many moons, way back in the day, slept in a wagon (Chevy, Ford and Pontiac) used as a tow vehicles (racing) saving on motel bills.
I remember the LAST camping trip my family went on when I was a kid..... LOL My folks decided to go to the ocean (Washington coast), so they loaded the '55 Ford wagon up to the roof with everything they thought we would need. This was a lot, as it included my parents, my much older sister and her husband, their new baby, and me, a snot-nosed 8 year old. This was before freeways, so all the roads were still narrow two-lane affairs. We're on the final stretch of a very busy state highway when we come upon a wreck. A guy towing a trailer had it get away from him, made a trip into the ditch, back out, flipped on it's side, then another trip into/out of the ditch. The trailer has partially disassembled itself, there's 'stuff' all over the road and it takes some time to get past this. We don't get more than a 1/4 mile past the wreck when we suffer a flat tire (probably ran over something). Just barely enough room to pull off the road... Of course, the spare is under everything that's packed. And the car is literally stuffed; my parents spent the previous evening fitting everything in like a giant puzzle. So while my folks and brother-in-law are carefully unloading the car and my sister is attending to the baby, I'm told to 'stay off the road, and stay out of our way'. They get the car jacked up, and the shoulder collapses and the car falls partially into the ditch. Meanwhile, I'm exploring the roadside and manage to fall into a thorn bush. I scratch myself up good and unbeknownst to me, am bleeding pretty good about the face and head. Next thing you know, a sheriff is there, wanting to know if we need an ambulance and what's the cause of the wreck? What wreck? my parents say, we just had a flat. Oh yeah, what happened to the kid? At that point I looked like an accident victim (bloody face and blood all over my clothes) and my mother freaked out. After a few minutes of pandemonium, the sheriff says you gotta get this GD car outa here, get the tire on and get moving. He grabs a couple of guys stopped behind this circus, they get the car back on the road, mount the spare, then stuff all our equipment in willy-nilly; I spent the rest of the trip wedged between a cooler and the roof of the car, with a towel wrapped around my head. Very educational for me... I learned lots of new words....
This one has me wonderin' too. They are listening to something on their spiffy battery powered flip-top tube portable radio (News from Nagasaki?) OK sure, but he's wearing a suit and tie, w/ dress shoes, and has both a full size axe, and a pick axe. Goin' to do a little uranium prospectin' after chopping some firewood no doubt. One radio manufacturer in fact made a combination Geiger counter & Radio during the uranium craze of the '50s. But who camps in a suit?
Found these pics that may be of interest to you HRP, Did someone produce these? Who says you cant have dual exhaust on a camper?
Danny, I wish I had some pictures of my dads 1963 chevy 2 station wagon.It had the 6 cylinder motor and 3 speed on the column. He even sprang for the A.M. radio. We used it many time to go camping and fishing to the Outer Banks of N.C. back in the 60s ,up in the Sky Line drive in VA. and even took us on vacation up to Maine. Living in N.J. back then rust took its toll on the old girl. Bruce.
I have a few pics of my grandpa's 62 Chevy II wagon. No good camping pics...but he had it when he built that cabin in Wisconsin...and when he visited us in Tucson in the mid 60s. I think my brother still has the larger Sears utility trailer!
They were produced years ago and there was a resurgence about 12 years ago but not sure if they are still in business. The first ones were smaller and resembled the rear of a 49 to 51 Ford,later they looked more like the 52 to 54 Ford. This brochure is the most recent offering. HRP
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