Saturday, December 6, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
ISWC Convention on YOU TUBE!
International Station Wagon Club Meet Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7oxN2rLL8
International Station Wagon Club National Meet Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLeeE2Wa4mA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7oxN2rLL8
International Station Wagon Club National Meet Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLeeE2Wa4mA
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Love will keep them together with their wagons and tunes
Love will keep them together with their wagons and tunes
By Taryn Plumb, Globe Correspondent June 22, 2008
STURBRIDGE - When Eric Ringstrom climbs into his liberty-white Buick behemoth with faux wood paneling and tan corduroy seats, he's fully drenched in the '70s.
The click of a key prompts the back window and tailgate to slide open like a yawning clamshell. A dashboard 8-track grooves with Barry Manilow and Captain & Tennille.
"It's the whole nostalgia thing," shrugged the Wallingford, Conn., resident, leaning up against the 1976 wagon's hulk during the International Station Wagon Club convention at the Publick House yesterday. "I love the styling. I love a big car."
Drivers of about 75 station wagons - one from as far as Ontario - gathered to gawk at one another's wagons. They arrived Tuesday and wrapped up yesterday. The group claims 175 members from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia.
In the parking lot behind the Publick House, station wagons from various eras sat in diagonal rows like an out-of-sync timeline. Chrome, fins, and hardtops glared with the afternoon sun; propped-open hoods boasted HEMI and V8 engines. There was a 2000 Mercedes-Benz E320 silver wagon, a lipstick-red, 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and a1966 Pontiac Bonneville in fountain blue.
"Every one of us grew up in wagons," said club president Charles Snyder, who motored his 1974 Montego up from Pittsburgh. "That's why we like them."
Despite the gas mileage.
"We used a half a tank on the way up," lamented Ringstrom, who said his trip from Wallingford was about 65 miles, and he got about 8 miles per gallon. "You can't afford to drive them anymore."
Ringstrom drives a 1991 burgundy Ford Country Squire named Jerry, which has logged 208,000 miles. "We got a lot of thumbs-up on the way here," he said with a laugh.
Station wagons, designed to carry luggage, first appeared in the 1910s as "depot hacks," or taxicabs, at train stations, according to stationwagon.com.
Later, after World War II, the mass-produced station wagon many Americans loaded into as kids, meant to be economical and functional, rumbled onto the roads. There were hardtops, soft tops, "compacts," two doors, four-doors and "woodys." The original family-mover, they prospered until the 1980s, according to stationwagon.com, when minivans began to bump them off the roads.
Franklin resident Jack Lane is proud to say he owns a very rare version of a woody.
A 1953 Ford Country Squire - tan, with a bulbous hood and maple detailing - he says it is one of only four of its kind in the country. And don't be fooled by its antique look: It can roar up to 70 miles an hour.
"This car going down the road," he grinned, eyes shielded by a straw hat, "people notice it."
www.boston.com
By Taryn Plumb, Globe Correspondent June 22, 2008
STURBRIDGE - When Eric Ringstrom climbs into his liberty-white Buick behemoth with faux wood paneling and tan corduroy seats, he's fully drenched in the '70s.
The click of a key prompts the back window and tailgate to slide open like a yawning clamshell. A dashboard 8-track grooves with Barry Manilow and Captain & Tennille.
"It's the whole nostalgia thing," shrugged the Wallingford, Conn., resident, leaning up against the 1976 wagon's hulk during the International Station Wagon Club convention at the Publick House yesterday. "I love the styling. I love a big car."
Drivers of about 75 station wagons - one from as far as Ontario - gathered to gawk at one another's wagons. They arrived Tuesday and wrapped up yesterday. The group claims 175 members from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia.
In the parking lot behind the Publick House, station wagons from various eras sat in diagonal rows like an out-of-sync timeline. Chrome, fins, and hardtops glared with the afternoon sun; propped-open hoods boasted HEMI and V8 engines. There was a 2000 Mercedes-Benz E320 silver wagon, a lipstick-red, 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and a1966 Pontiac Bonneville in fountain blue.
"Every one of us grew up in wagons," said club president Charles Snyder, who motored his 1974 Montego up from Pittsburgh. "That's why we like them."
Despite the gas mileage.
"We used a half a tank on the way up," lamented Ringstrom, who said his trip from Wallingford was about 65 miles, and he got about 8 miles per gallon. "You can't afford to drive them anymore."
Ringstrom drives a 1991 burgundy Ford Country Squire named Jerry, which has logged 208,000 miles. "We got a lot of thumbs-up on the way here," he said with a laugh.
Station wagons, designed to carry luggage, first appeared in the 1910s as "depot hacks," or taxicabs, at train stations, according to stationwagon.com.
Later, after World War II, the mass-produced station wagon many Americans loaded into as kids, meant to be economical and functional, rumbled onto the roads. There were hardtops, soft tops, "compacts," two doors, four-doors and "woodys." The original family-mover, they prospered until the 1980s, according to stationwagon.com, when minivans began to bump them off the roads.
Franklin resident Jack Lane is proud to say he owns a very rare version of a woody.
A 1953 Ford Country Squire - tan, with a bulbous hood and maple detailing - he says it is one of only four of its kind in the country. And don't be fooled by its antique look: It can roar up to 70 miles an hour.
"This car going down the road," he grinned, eyes shielded by a straw hat, "people notice it."
www.boston.com
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Station Wagons North East
Email: StationWagonsNorthEast@yahoo.com for more information about the 2008 International Station Wagon Convention. See our other events listed below.
Welcome to Station Wagons North East. Your online group for station wagon owners and fans in the North Eastern USA and Canada.
2008 International Station Wagon Club Convention Sturbridge, Massachusetts June 18,19,20,21.
http://www.iswc.us/
Highlights of the convention will be a tour of the Collings Foundation and Micro-Motors:
Collings Foundation: http://www.collingsfoundation.org/
Micro-Motors: http://www.bubbledrome.com/
Early Bird attendees: Our travels will take us to The Star Diner Rhode Island's largest vintage diner.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Breaking News:
Members of the Penn's Wood Woodie Club will support and participate in the 2008 International Station Wagon Convention.
Here is their Blog: http://www.penns-woods.blogspot.com/
Yankee Wood & Capital District Chapters of the National Woodie Club will be joining us also :
Yankee Wood Chapter:
Capital District:
Sunday, September 30, 2007
17 Station Wagons at North East Meet 09/30/07
Click on the photos for a better view..
17 STATION WAGONS BROUGHT THEIR OWNERS TO THE PLANNING MEETING FOR THE 2008 INTERNATIONAL STATION WAGON CLUB CONVENTION.INTERNATIONAL STATION WAGON CLUB
HTTP://WWW.ISWC.US
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Studebaker Wagon Forum
Studebaker Station Wagon Owners now have there own discussion board. You can check it out here:
http://studebakerconestoga.com/
http://studebakerconestoga.com/
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