Car of the Week: 1960 Ford Country Squire

[dodgechargerfan]

While nearly every other 1960s teenage boy was dreaming of two-door muscle cars with mag wheels and loud pipes, Tom Murray was ogling cars with more doors and long roofs. The St. Paul, Minn., resident suggests that his early love for station wagons placed him in the uncool set, but in reality, maybe he was just ahead of the curve.

“I have always been a Ford station wagon fan,” Murray said. “My first car was a 1958 Ford station wagon. I was probably not cool, that is why I like station wagons.”

Today, that station wagon stigma is gone and Murray is one of the coolest cats at car shows with his 1960 Ford Country Squire, a car he’s been drooling over since 1967.

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[restoman]

“My first car was a 1958 Ford station wagon. I was probably not cool, that is why I like station wagons.”

D'uh, do ya think?

 

[Dr.Jass]

The bodies were constructed of wood from forests in Iron Mountain, Mich., and assembled by body builder Murray, which built many bodies for Ford.

Or, y'know, not.

The Ford plant was in Kingsford, not Iron Mountain. Murray may have assembled the woodies early on, but the plant here built complete cars starting in the late 1920s. I would know, since I grew up on the edge of the pine plantation that now covers a good part of where the Ford factory once stood. Much of it still does, actually, including both the carburizing and body plants, the latter still housing an assembly line now producing garbage trucks as it has for decades (the Ford plant closed in '51). The giant smokestacks stood until 2002 and were it not for trees, would've been visible from inside our house.

My hometown is responsible for the inventions of both the charcoal briquette and the paintball/paintball gun. I knew the inventor of the paintball and his wife personally; they lived one house away from my childhood home... so I'm much, much cooler than the owner of some staid, ugly stickered-up Ford wagon.

 

[68R/T]

Now THAT was a lot more interesting than a boring schpiel about an ugly ford. :doh:

 

[thrashingcows]

Now THAT was a lot more interesting than a boring schpiel about an ugly ford. :doh:

...got that right! :shifty:

 

[71ChargerRT]

Who is in charge of picking the cars and writing the stories? They need to fire them and hire a writer that can fact check and write an interesting story whether it's true or not. Only the car owner will know.

Doc, drop a resume with them.

 

[TheIronSausage]

So, I shouldn't admit to liking that wagon? I might.. a little..