American Station Wagons - The Golden Era 1950-1975

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"American Station Wagons - The Golden Era 1950-1975" examines an important quarter century of this versatile vehicle, a time when it evolved into a practical, yet sometimes luxurious family transporter or business vehicle. This volume covers the histories of the major, minor and obscure station wagon manufacturers and models. While makes such as Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge and Plymouth dominated the US market, important roles were played by Oldsmobile, Buick, Mercury, and Chrysler in making the car more than mere basic transportation or a reliable workhorse. At the same time, makes such as Studebaker, Kaiser, Nash and AMC, etc. competed for a slice of this burgeoning postwar market, and were responsible for novel innovations in design. Contemporary brochures, period literature, factory photos and over fifty new, unpublished colour photos of restored examples help convey the importance of these historic vehicles. Also featured are images of rarer Canadian versions from American manufacturers.

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-If you're thinking about buying an American estate then this book is a good place to begin your research. Good fun.- - Classic & Sports Car-Its 96 colorful pages are packed with photos - some of them taken especially for the book - and vintage ads from the author's own collection.- - blogs.canoe.ca -Welcome to the pre-downsizing world of some seriously big motor cars, all packed into a concise volume of just under 100 pages.- - Classic Cars -Great ads and brochure reprints made us want a '587 Packard Clipper wagon - 'A new ages of functional elegance arrives!' - and it's fascinating to see the change in ad styles over the decades. Inexpensive too.- - Octane -These quirky little softbacks are something of a pocket-sized breath of fresh air.- - American Car -With some potted history of each decade's developments and lengthy detailed captions, this is a treasure trove of mostly contemporary photos of wagons and woodies, plus reproductions of some wonderful brochure material. There's a lot to enjoy.- - NZ Classic Car

Author Bio

Norm Mort was raised in Toronto where vehicles from every corner of the world were sold. He began taking pictures of old cars and trucks parked at the side of the road before he was ten. At 12 years of age, Norm was the youngest member on the executive of the Antique and Classic Car Club of Canada, Toronto Chapter. In the 1960s he began accumulating photos and information on motoring. Over the years his personal vehicle collection has included everything from a 1935 Morgan Trike to a 1966 Bianchina van. A writer for magazines and newspapers in the field of transport for nearly 25 years and a member of the Canadian Society of Automotive Historians, this is his seventh historic vehicles book.