It may seem hard to believe today, but there was a time when station wagons were in high demand. The 1950s, for instance, was a great era for grocery-get.
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American car sales were booming as never before in 1955, and that meant a vast torrent of new Fords and Chevrolets flowing into dealerships around the country that year: close to 1.5 million Fords,
more than 1.5 million Chevrolets. Yes, just a year after food rationing ended in the UK, 300,000 American families owned two or more Fords… and this full-page magazine advertisement was an effort to increase the number of those multi-Ford households. Ford Motor Company
Ford had a modern new overhead-valve V8 engine instead of the late Henry s old-timey flathead, so that advanced new small-block Chevrolet V8 had some real competition (Chrysler s Hemi V8 was limited to higher-end machinery in 1955). The combination of two-door Custom Ranch Wagon and Fairlane Town Sedan, both in two-tone paint, seemed sensible enough.
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