Ford may have been the wagon master back in the Sixties, this version is one of a kind. It is equipped with bucket seats and the console from the high-line XL, with a 428 V8 mated to a four-speed top loader. The special-order car was approved for build by none other than Lee Iacocca when he was Ford's president. While the outside is in "as-found" condition, the monster 428 is fully detailed.

Some of the wagons at the show had been restored to the level of any high-end hot rod. Others, such as Cornell Anton's 1988 Chevy Caprice, were lovingly kept original. Anton's vehicle might have just rolled off the assembly line, in fact.

Some included modifications for speed and beauty, among them Bill Recker's 1964 Fairlane custom Ranch Wagon and Jim Morris' 1992 Oldsmobile Hurst/Hurse shown on the first page. Morris' wagon represents his vision of what Hurst Performance might have done with one of the last of GM's full-sized station wagons.

Most wagons at the show were from the Sixties to the early Eighties, a time when you could put up to 10 people in dad's car. Ford advertised that you could get two people into each of the two seats facing each other. But you'd better be skinny.