Art & Inspiration What's something cool to display in the back of a '50's station wagon?

Since you don't have a roof rack to tie her to, Aunt Edna could ride in the back.

 

Props
Be a grown up and let the car speak for itself.

 

Sorry Squirrel. That was low hangin fruit. It's plain to see from your avatar that you KNOW you're pretty and I knew that gibe couldn't even scuff your exterior (or interior). Peace

 

Go cart and or mini bikes

 

Danny or working for the mob.LOL.Bruce.

 

Robert.I had all that stuff you had in your top picture, in back of 1 of my wagons and then when I sold the wagon I sold all that stuff too.I didn't know I would be back in to the wagon thing again. LOL. Bruce.

 

No problem. Billy.I think most people on here know I am a station wagon guy and made a mistake by getting rid of my last wagon.I am always looking. Thanks Bruce.

 

Jim

 

I have some as well. Some of it was may grandparents. That will never be for sale!

 

Robert .I don't blame you buddy.Bruce.

 

I pretty much lived that one out with a southern family back in the '70s. Mississippi headed for Calif ( I was headed for KC I think) to visit relatives, gaggle of kids and the absolute best bologna sammich I ever ate.

 

Maybe a cooler with your road supplies in it, maybe another with drinks.
The ultimate thing to have back there would be a busty 20 something blonde if you ask me

 

Tie grandma Joad on the roof.

 

I used to keep the Dandy pocket bike in the back of several wagons I owned. Bought it in the 1970's and used to ride it quite a bit. That was when I could still bend my legs. Called it," Despair Tire"(with apologies to the group Sea Train) and actually had to use it once when my Mini Cooper wagon broke down in the middle of nowhere. Rode it almost 5 miles to a vocational high school to use a phone and the the shop teacher gave me an ignition coil to fix the car. Rode it back and installed the coil and made it home.

 

I was going to bust your balls,but I’m late getting here.....

 

Vintage pedal car


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A Leg Lamp....

 

To no avail I have searched for an image of the Popular Mechanics model rocket work station. Your wagon could be the launch vehicle.

 

Skip the gimmicks, stick with what is useful. I own several wagons, most of the time I drive around with the back seat folded down and the back empty. When I travel or go to a car show, I will probably have a vintage cooler full of drinks and a vintage picnic basket full of snacks. When I go out to California to go surfing, I carry vintage removable roof racks and surfboards. I would most likely not be carrying any of those things without the intention of using them.

 

Right now (winter in Michigan) I have a couple hundred pounds of scrap brake rotors back there for ballast.

 

Maybe a newspaper or magazine from the year of manufacture? Old Boys Life or Popular Mechanics.

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Reminds me of the movie Vanishing point

 

I like the first idea you had with the go cart if I had to choose, that or a nice 50s/60s style torpedo lookin soap box derby car with a good size disc wheels

 

Since wagon were family cars, how about a vintage child seat?

 

Drum set.

 

In the late 60's we used the wagon to haul our bands equipment,amplifiers,guitars,drums,mikes & PA system,when the wagon was loaded there was just enough room for me & Brenda.



The band didn't survive but the wagon did.



Nowadays about all the wagon hauls is people and traveling gear,luggage,ice chest,chairs and other necessities for being on the road. HRP