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Post by kevinharrell on Feb 23, 2015 6:07:13 GMT -5
Which is more macho? Pickup Truck  Station Wagon  |
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Post by flyangler on Feb 23, 2015 6:52:22 GMT -5
Well now, if it were a Taurus wagon  ..... but I'll take the pick up |
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Post by SylvreKat on Feb 23, 2015 8:16:24 GMT -5
My first thought, too--kev',  you used the wrong photo! Regardless, it's the wagon for this girly. Same floor space, plus it's covered. And don't forget that mine hauled most of an entire rank of wooden flute pipe organ pipes the seven miles from storage to new church building.  Booyah  Beat that, pickup!  |
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Post by ramblinman on Feb 23, 2015 8:40:05 GMT -5
no contest! pick up x100 and that wagon is the classiest i've ever seen. i never knew a station wagon could look so good.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Feb 23, 2015 20:44:33 GMT -5
I have seen come plenty macho station wagons, but I have to go with the pick up.  |
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Post by spandi on Feb 23, 2015 21:37:51 GMT -5
It's a 1960 Rambler. (My Dad had the same make and model, only in a light green shade)  |
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Post by SylvreKat on Feb 23, 2015 23:47:54 GMT -5
Oi, ramblin. You only say that 'cause you've never seen my Taurie-wagon! He's hot stuff, esp with the picnic tray out.
Oh man kev', if you'd only posted a pic of my wagon with the picnic tray deployed. Everyone would be droolin' all over his über-machoness!
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Post by kevinharrell on Feb 24, 2015 6:04:29 GMT -5
Oh man kev', if you'd only posted a pic of my wagon with the picnic tray deployed. Everyone would be droolin' all over his über-machoness! Picnic trays, ha! Little beats folded down Rambler seats, even more macho with the optional screen window inserts.  |
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Post by Paladin on Feb 24, 2015 11:11:30 GMT -5
 I had a truck, a 1977 GMC K2500, full time 4x4, 400SB. Could carry over a ton, pulled a fifth wheel camper trailer .... |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 24, 2015 12:09:26 GMT -5
Well, I've almost always had ONE or the OTHER... And, it's a close vote!
BOTH are mighty handy, and under the right circumstances can be pretty macho. 99% of the time, I'd vote for the pickup truck (especially in Texas...) but that Rambler wagon gets to me... LOL!
Back "in the day" I was an incurable Nash/Rambler/American Motors fan. Had many of 'em and they were some of the BEST cars I ever had.
My first wagon (long before my first pickup truck) was an early seventies American Motors Ambassador "luxury" wagon, fully-loaded, leather and all... 9-passenger, 4-channel 8-track tape player with Vibra-Sonic sound... Oh, YEAH! It was more luxurious than later Cadillacs I had in my more successful years. 401 cid, 4-barrel V8, 4-speed automatic with overdrive and DROP-DEAD reliable even at 30 below zero... it was SWEET!
You should have SEEN all that "wood" trim light up when headlights hit it... Hmmm... Come to think of it, my 1989 Merc Grand Marquis wagon has the SAME feature, and it's got even MORE light-up wood all over it. Dang! Old cars were SO cool! Still are...
Gatekeeper reminded me I'm WRONG on the engine size... It was a 401, not a 403!
I got a SUPER deal on it because of the "gas-crisis" pushing buyers into sub-compacts. The 401 4-barrel motor totally killed it's appeal. SURPRISE! Unlike competitive 5-mile-per-gallon luxury tanks, It gave a whopping 16 mpg in town, and 18 mpg on the highway, which was FABILOUS gas-mileage back then! And, the old gal would show her tail lights to anything short of a hot muscle-car.
That 3-ton dinosaur rode like a Lincoln Town Car, and would do 0-60 in 8-seconds flat. She'd do an honest 120+ mph top end and cruise-control-run the freeways at  all day long...
Again, gas consumption was 16 city and 18 highway. And you could haul NINE adults, or more STUFF than in my Chevy step-side pickup! Now if all those marvelous performance figures sound absolutely DISMAL by TODAY'S standards, they ARE... But you need to realize the figures were SUPERB 45 years ago... Macho enough for this old geezer... LOL!
Leo (STILL herding a 1989 Merc Grand Marquis wagon, with 400K miles on her clock) in Texas |
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Post by gatekeeper on Feb 24, 2015 19:09:41 GMT -5
The large displacement AMC engine in the 70's was 401 CID. AMC/Rambler made some great cars. I had a 1972 AMC Javelin. Great car!
As for the poll, I'll take an old fashioned station wagon. Forerunner of today's SUV's.
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Post by spandi on Feb 25, 2015 10:01:18 GMT -5
I forgot about those seats....Talk about a "bed"  |
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Post by SylvreKat on Feb 25, 2015 11:06:59 GMT -5
Eh, not so impressed as you guys. I can fold down my Taurus' back seat and have six feet of flat floor. SIX FEET. A Ford lady told me he has more floor space than the Explorer she was driving. Not overall cargo space, but then I didn't often need height just length and width.
Spread a mattress in there and there's good snoozin' going on. And no risk of hitting something hard, like the dash...THE STEERING WHEEL RIGHT THERE....
>'Kat
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 25, 2015 12:26:02 GMT -5
The large displacement AMC engine in the 70's was 401 CID. AMC/Rambler made some great cars. I had a 1972 AMC Javelin. Great car! As for the poll, I'll take an old fashioned station wagon. Forerunner of today's SUV's. Gatekeeper,
You are RIGHT! I had to look up the AMC motors on the net to be sure. It WAS a 401... I was certain it was a 403... Old age DOES play tricks on you.
The coolest "Rambler" I ever had was a late-sixties Ambassador coupe. It was a pretty unknown "sport" model aimed at the Chevy Impala and Ford Galaxy, but never "caught on". It was a great-looking old boat, with a 343 (I'm pretty sure on THAT motor... LOL!). That motor had a MONSTER 4-barrel carb and cast-iron headers. I still remember the air-cleaner decal that read something like "343 4V Typhoon High-Output Police Interceptor". Like my wagon, it had a 4-speed automatic with overdrive, and a floor-shift with all five gears having an individual selection/hold-in-gear feature.
That floor-shift came in a console that ran ALL the way back to the rear-deck (4 individual leather bucket seats!) and the console had full-analog gauges including a tach. I got it from my favorite local dealer. He showed me the special-order for the car from an old-time customer who passed away before he could take delivery. That old car was major-muscle for AMC back then... Huge brakes, NASCAR type suspension with sway-bars, 2 shocks at each wheel, locker rear-end with short gears, depending on the fifth overdrive to give good highway speed (oh, YEAH!) and "passable" mileage IF one kept one's foot out of the firewall... LOL!
From zero to top-end, THAT one WOULD keep up with most anything Detroit had to offer. Oh, yeah, it had ONE other option I haven't seen until last few year's Cadillac 650+ hp screamers... the "Police-Only" MUFLER-DELETE... The noisiest option around... HeHeHe... Headers into straight-pipes, just like the new Caddy!
My dealer-pal said when the old guy who ordered it passed away, he KNEW the only chance he had to sell it was to call me... Woo-HOO! He was RIGHT!!!
Ride safe!
Leo
PS: I'll correct the displacement mistake in my post.
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Post by shalomdawg on Feb 25, 2015 19:25:12 GMT -5
howdy yeah howdy
hey leo, mine was the rambler rebel with the 290 which was a ford 289 block. great fuel mileage and great car. the two 401 engines i had were in buicks . one was a '60 model and the other a '62. either would get 18 miles a gallon and i remember a lady and i traveling from idaho to missouri and when i got tired she drove. i set the "mileage minder" on 115 mph cause it wouldn't go any higher. she kept waking me up with the danged clanger bell that said we were exceeding 115 mph. the rambler i liked was the '50 model with the front "clicker" seat that would lay down flat and turn the whole interior into a great bed. i used to "camp" in that parked in front of the house in town. wasn't being 8 years old and feeling safe , wonderful?
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken
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all day long...
