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In the 1960s and 1970s, station wagons based on automobiles often had rear-facing folding seats which were entered by a 2 or 3-way tailgate. Ford used dual-side facing seats which faced each other. Some such as the Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser had a forward-facing third row, an arrangement also common in SUVs such as the Chevrolet Suburban. Most ...
Station wagons with this design were available with an optional third row of forward-facing seats accessed by the rear side doors and a folding second-row seat. They could accommodate 4-by-8-foot (1.2 m × 2.4 m) sheets of plywood or other panels with the rear seats folded.
To reduce noise and improve sealing, the station wagon was offered with two doors instead of four; [2] however, three seats were used, allowing eight-passenger seating. [ 1 ] For the 1950 model year, Ford renamed its model lines; initially, the station wagon was a Custom Deluxe with the all new "Country Squire" name introduced in early 1950. [ 4 ]
The rear wheel cutouts were radiused, unlike the sedans. Standard equipment for 1966 included three-speed manual transmission, power brakes, windshield washer, and a front stabilizer bar. [ 3 ] For 1969, the bigger 350 engine (5.7 L) took over, with 200 hp. Output climbed to 215 hp (160 kW) for 1971, or 155 hp (116 kW) SAE net.
A rumble seat (American English), dicky (dickie/dickey) seat (British English), also called a mother-in-law seat, [1] is an upholstered exterior seat which is folded into the rear of a coach, carriage, or early motorcar. Depending on its configuration, it provided exposed seating for one or two passengers.
Wagons had a maximum of 81.1 cubic feet of cargo area with the 60/40 split rear seat folded down. [16] They featured a 2-way liftgate (raise the entire liftgate or just the window), a roof rack with crossbar and tie-downs, an optional rear-facing third seat, a lockable under-floor compartment, and an optional fold-out picnic table.
The Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser is a station wagon manufactured and marketed by Oldsmobile over three generations from 1964 to 1977.. The first and second generation Vista Cruisers are noted for their fixed-glass, roof-mounted skylights over the second-row seating with sun visors for the second row passengers, a raised roof behind the skylight and lateral glass panels over the rear cargo area ...
In contrast with a standard two-door 860 "Colony" station wagon (also derived from the Chieftain), [5] the Safari was styled with coupe-style front doors, forward-raked B-pillars (with windows wrapping around from pillar to pillar); along with extra chrome trim (fitted to the tailgate), the rear seat windows slid open. In line with the Nomad ...