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Published: 2009-04-20 09:05:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 882; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 14
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just some dopey nostalgia. i spent the entirety of what i consider my childhood riding around in a navy blue 86 Chevy Celebrity wagon.even if that weren't the case i'd still wish these kid-toting road warriors back into popularity and stomp the SUV into obscurity. we didn't need a TV screen or out own AC. no. we had vinyl seats, covered in gummy bears heating up nicely in the sunlight of a panoramic back window presenting us with all the sights and wonders the interstate could offer. and a portable tape player. plus you got to ride backwards! i mean COME ON.
oh and also we weren't a rolling manifestation of human insecurity sucking the world dry of resources and automatically killing anybody driving a vehicle smaller than our own with whom we collided because we were changing DVDs to shut the kids up.
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5 years ago they weren't nearly as trendy as they are again today with the whole mainstreaming of the nostalgia wave thing goin on-- lots of new wagons on the market-- i still only see even later model buick wagons or chevy celebs on the road with the same rarity though. they're there-- but it's still a treat to see one.
glad ya dug it!
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sweet, I like wagons. i have a jeep cherokee, and it is essentially a lifted 4x4 station wagon
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I love Station Wagons too!
My grandpa has a Ford Escort Station Wagon, and it's been through hell and back, but I still love it, and it's our family car.
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my friend has one of those! is it white? i feel like all ford escorts are white lol
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Awesome, That it is! xD
Actually there was a sky blue one that is much prettier. And I believe there is a red one. But I'm guessing white was either the most popular or most produced, or both.
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yeah, that's weird.
like those "bleen" chevy cavaliers, i had one, and everyone my age in my county did for some reason. many with trunk-dents.
they seem to produce a lot of the same color, i dunno why. white makes sense, but obnoxious blue-green? i don't get it, but i don't see it anymore.
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I know.lol.
I don't really like the blue-green one, but I once saw a actual sky blue color, and a red, while my grandpa, someone in our neighborhood and the closest Pizza Hut has white Escorts.
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Station wagons > SUVs.
Poor wagons get no respect.
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exactly! wtf does an 18 lift/bigger engine have to do with ^sometimes carrying more passengers?
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Nice stamp, though I don't think I've ever seen a real station wagon around here.
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lol you're not missing much.
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Well, my next car is going to be a Subaru Outback, which is technically a wagon. A SPORT wagon. At least I'll be cool. VROOM!!
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sport wagons! i completely forgot about that arbitrary category. XD i love it! i drive a hatchback... kinda like a wagon technically... only no one can legally ride back there. X)
you gotta take pics of the Outback.
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I certainly will, once I get it. Might be a while though, but I've got my heart set on the Outback. Wheeeeeeeeee!
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I can't say anything, because my childhood car was a white Mazda
Now we have a silver Mazda
Witch will be sold soon
And we will soon get a new Mazda
Probably silver again
My dad likes Mazdas
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Did you know that Mazda was the name of a babylonian god
His full name was Ahura Mazda
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yup! i knew that and always wondered how it was the chosen name of a Japanese car company.
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I mean, there was a car called "swinger".... and there are multiple cars whose names in italian or spanish mean innapropriate things.... Not car companies tho....
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in America we have cars called "Vibe" and "Probe" which, in addition to their original meaning, are both names more popular in modern times for things that go in the ass for pleasure.
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I've known Probe, but Vibe?... lol, people shorten every title these days....
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vibe for vibration = the car. vibe for vibrator = the ass-dingler.
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yeah, I already got it.
YOU DIDN'T NEED TO GO INTO DETAIL.
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ass-dingler
buttplugatron
anal stimulation device
obtaining a degree in rectal dildonics
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My first car actually. It was a brown 81 Toyota Corolla Station wagon. We called it the roach coach...
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Yep. Lost it when I fell asleep at the wheel, and a ford probe t-boned me.
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you mean an anal Probe.
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Oh man, we used to have a Bronco, an 86 Ford Bronco that was fantastic. it traveled cross country with us and did everything, from texas to north carolina to florida and back to texas, and it was bought in Germany lol. Oh the days. I hate SUV's though, there's no need for you to have such a large vehicle. We moved a shit ton, do you? You only have two kids, you don't need a bazillion seats, you own a fucking tank dude! Your gas sucks and you're only stroking your own ego by owning that huge Escalade.
And don't get me started on mini vans.
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i'd still rather take back the days of the minivan than the SUV. okay before the Odyssey and the advent of the backseat TV.
why do kids/manhood automatically equal a huge truck or SUV? are you ALWAYS ferrying the entire soccer team around? is it unsanitary for children to sit ass-to-ass three deep in the backseat? i used to love when st a sleepover/birthday party we'd drive somewhere and the car was crowded. it was different, and fun! and it wasn't unsafe i mean FFS everyone had a seatbelt.
people seem to have some kind of stigma that driving a car that isn't a Mercedes M-class or a Dodge Charger is for single women only.
and yeah we moved... all the time.
but... isn't the Bronco an SUV?
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it is but we used it. we hauled stuff constantly, moved all the time so it had to be able to hold mass amounts of stuff and tow a uhaul, and it was also my mom's since she got it from my dad in the divorce. License plate said 'waz his' 
I know! We used to shuttle people around in our car since it was so big. Hell, me and my mom's rommates kid used to BEG to have the back seats fold down so that we could roll around and lay down in the trunk while mom was driving. Unsafe, maybe, but fucking fun? HELLS YES! Oh the good old days.
I would rather die than own a minivan or an SUV. I could make it work in a car like what I have, and if there isn't enough room in a car that seats five, then stop having kids. period.
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oh yeah you had mentioned you moved a lot. see, that is the kind of situation that benefits from a utilitarian car. not fatass little-miss-middle-aged-highlights who just has groceries and a stroller.
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I know! I see people that roll up to my store in huge cars, like tanks, and all they have is ONE kid and a stroller, maybe. It's ridiculous. I love how in America the idea of wealth or status is bigger is always better. I would be happy, ecstatic really, with a nice small sport car rather than some huge ass gas guzzler that will tear our environment a new one. me and my mother like to call people in Hummer's tools. Why they made that available to civies I'll never know.
As a military brat I'm offended every time I see an army car rolling down the street with spinners, a thumping stereo, and some punk ass kid behind the wheel who will NEVER take the thing off road. It's made for South America, the Desert, anything off road, and yet... it's stuck on highways and suburbia. It hurts my soul a little as a car freak to see something like the noble Hummvie turned into what it is now.
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yeah... i really liked the original models. i remember the red one they had in Alex Mack the first time i saw it and being... enthralled.
they still get shitty mileage and top out at like, sixty/seventy though.
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yea, that's a reason to laugh at them whenever you see them though. They cannot go fast. Never have been, never will be unless they make it the size of a regular SUV. And half the time people get the Hummer for the size and status. *sigh* oh America.
I want a BMW Z4
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lol ... man I miss our Sigma. Station wagaons rock. I think I've asked you before but what are those iconic US station wagons with the wood panelling that are so ever-present in Hollywood movies of the 80's?
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the surfer ones or the family-man ones? the surfer ones are called Woodies but i'm not sure that is the actual model name and i don't know the make.
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i dunno. i think in National Lampoon's vacation it was called the Queen Family Roadster, but i'm also pretty sure that was fictitious.
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Yeah sounds it. I reckon they're that common because they say 'lower-middle-class' to Hollywood so resoundingly. Here we've got other vehicles, but as a result a lot of people think they're incredibly popular cars in the US.
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they were, in all reality. how Americans share one massive common memory of family road trips in a wagon.
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Well I share those memories too ... does that make me an American?
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an honorary American! *puts Mickey ears cap on you and hands you a sparkler and a tiny flag*
the shame will set on shortly.
we beam it by satellite to all grade Americans.
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